Hope (A Cappella)-Nas

[ti:Hope] [ar:Nas] [al:Hip Hop Is Dead] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hope (A Cappella) - Nas [00:00.02]Written by：Nasir Jones/C. Payne [00:00.09]Hip hop [00:01.20]It will never die [00:04.44]Hip hop [00:05.22]Hip hop will never never die [00:09.58] [00:10.78]Ghetto ni**a strutting with nothing [00:11.77]But dreams in queens broke [00:13.69]Mac 10s you can smell the pcp smoke [00:15.80]Melle mel told it real in the music he wrote [00:18.46]Those were the days I remember [00:20.14]We used to be close [00:21.27]Then I was nine coldest winter I remember [00:23.35]Was slipping in December two feet of snow [00:25.59]Yeah that's the east coast that black ice [00:27.49]Symbolize the rap life it was slick and smooth [00:29.77]I understood I had to come from the hood [00:31.62]Doing the pee wee herman [00:33.00]The smurf [00:33.53]Before them phones chirped [00:34.92]The blocks drugs flowing [00:36.16]Didn't have your own work [00:37.26]You had to have somebody else's [00:38.89]A small chrome on your pelvis [00:40.49]Starter jacket blue georgetown or green Celtic [00:43.08]Your girl's too expensive [00:44.32]She want shellfish [00:45.50]Red lobster was popping [00:46.74]Standing on that line forever [00:48.43]I wish somebody would step [00:49.71]On my bally leathers [00:50.79]Now it's whatever [00:51.93]Hip hop's forever [00:53.20]Kept my radio on 98 or BLS [00:56.03]Had a pre pubescent lyric gift [00:57.29]But niggas never hear me spit [00:58.98]My little brother tried to warn 'em [01:00.55]I was a tornado coming [01:02.04]He knew from inside [01:03.10]Like the eye of a storm [01:04.09]And told my pops about it [01:05.40]He gave us tickets to that wild style flick [01:07.35]Double trouble retarded we was the proudest [01:09.69]I never had a summer job [01:11.37]Sweeping leaves [01:12.23]Socks to my knees [01:13.16]Home made shorts cut off lee's [01:14.95]I ain't work a day in my life [01:16.54]Wiping away eraser off the paper man [01:19.09]I'm just trying to say it right [01:20.46]Big radio tape's slowing down [01:22.23]Lower the lights go battery dead [01:24.15]I got to freeze 'em 'till they're ice cold [01:26.14]In the freezer later [01:27.17]I'm staring at the speaker [01:28.96]Sunk in them 808's deeper cleaning my sneakers [01:31.37]With the bristles of a toothbrush [01:33.11]Soap and water [01:33.98]I let the shoestrings soak in water [01:35.70]Water water [01:37.01]Ain't got nothing to do it [01:38.27]With old school [01:39.01]No school [01:40.31]Dirty south [01:41.91]West coast east coast [01:43.78]This about us [01:45.05]This our thing [01:46.19] [01:46.92]No sun has came from the gut [01:48.51]From the blood [01:49.70]From the soul [01:51.31]Right here man [01:52.76]This is our thing man [01:54.33] [01:55.41]You know [01:56.14] [01:56.76]So I say what I say [01:58.12] [01:59.03]And I say what I say I'm mean it [02:01.12] [02:01.75]Y'all take it how you want to take it [02:03.85]'Cause if you asking [02:05.00]Why is hip hop dead [02:06.44]It's a pretty good chance [02:07.28]You the reason it died man [02:09.08]It's a pretty good chance [02:10.07]Your lame a*s corny a*s [02:12.40]Is the reason it died man [02:13.87] [02:14.56]Don't give a f*ck about it [02:15.75]You know nothing about it [02:17.42]You want this paper be a hustler [02:19.39]You a hustler you ain't a rapper [02:20.72]Get your paper man [02:21.98]You know I'm saying [02:22.89]But this rap sh*t is real [02:24.11] [02:24.81]Bi*ch [02:25.24] [02:26.04]Is sh*t is real bi*ch [02:27.64]Ha ha ha [02:28.23]Give hip hop give [02:30.14] [02:30.67]Stay hip hop stay [02:32.99]Stay hip hop stay [02:35.38] [02:35.99]I pray hip hop pray [02:38.38]I pray hip hop stays [02:40.87] [02:41.66]Live hip hop live [02:43.60] [02:44.21]Live hip hop live [02:46.83]Give hip hop give [02:49.11] [02:49.68]Give hip hop give [02:52.20]Stay hip hop stay [02:55.04]Stay hip hop stay [02:57.47]I pray hip hop pray [03:00.05]I pray hip hop stays