I Do It For Hip Hop-Jay-Z/Ludacris

[ti:I Do It For Hip Hop] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:A Prelude To Blueprint 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Do It For Hip Hop - Jay-Z/Ludacris [00:16.90]I do it for hip-hop [00:18.01] [00:19.49]I do it for hip-hop [00:20.92] [00:21.56]Yeah I do it for hip-hop [00:23.37]Now this is what they call poetry in motion [00:25.26]My soul bleeds on the paper heart screams with emotion [00:28.41]This my daily devotion that verses stay deeper than the ocean [00:31.98]So hip-hop you owe me a promotion [00:34.02]Yeah I do a little boastin' and braggin' [00:36.11]What's all the commotion and naggin' about [00:38.26]'Cause I'm still the champ in the south [00:40.13]'Cause rappers get in the booth and I keep draggin' them out [00:43.07]Where they fired and these pink slips I keep handin' them out [00:45.55]'Cause this is Theater of Mind consider it a sign [00:48.16]Of what's to come next my money's just fine [00:50.89]Bank filled with dump checks [00:52.44]Terrorist threat flow proceed to drop (bombs) like Mr Funk Flex [00:56.06]But I don't do it for the money I do it from the heart [00:59.17]I'll do it with the beatbox I did it from the start [01:01.93]I'll do it for the DJs I'll do it for the charts [01:04.58]The Van Gogh flow Luda do it 'cause it's art [01:07.25]I do it for the fans I do it on command [01:09.64] [01:10.24]I do it for the front row I do it for the stands [01:12.91]I spit it for the hood I do it for the block [01:15.41]And since nine years old I did it for hip-hop [01:18.10]So I don't do for the chains and the fancy drops [01:21.36] [01:22.27]I do it for hip-hop [01:23.42] [01:24.97]I do it for hip-hop [01:26.00] [01:27.51]I do it for hip-hop [01:29.15]And I don't do for the chains and the flashin' rocks [01:31.80] [01:33.13]I do it for hip-hop [01:34.64] [01:35.83]I do it for hip-hop [01:37.43] [01:38.54]I do it for hip-hop [01:40.36]They say I'm so low key I'm socially awkward [01:42.78]Only those that really know me are the ones that I talk with [01:45.86]They smile in the light hate in the dark [01:48.01]You call it beef to me its's just a f**kin' walk in the park [01:50.85]Because you are who you are when nobody is looking [01:53.42]That's who you are so when the cash and cars is gone [01:56.51]The day after tomorrow [01:57.68]Don't be askin' to borrow ski maskin' it hard [01:59.98]Like the way you rap in your bars [02:01.65]I could ride on you and whoever devise new endeavors [02:04.99]I'm as live as hive full of predators [02:07.51]Twenty thousands different species of bees [02:09.82]Some half poisonous sting some just pollinating their leafs [02:12.53]It's just like rap some will buzz some will attack [02:14.71]Compromising their own life in fact [02:17.08] [02:17.62]Sixteen years since my first sixteen [02:20.04]Pardon the rest of my niggas [02:21.45] [02:21.98]But I'm the best whoever did it [02:23.84]I don't do for the cars and the fancy drops [02:26.12] [02:26.79]Uh I do it for hip-hop [02:28.59] [02:29.21]Yeah I do it for hip-hop uh [02:32.99]I do it for hip-hop [02:34.04] [02:34.55]And I don't do for the chains and the flashin' rocks [02:37.34]Why we do it kid I do it for hip-hop [02:40.20]Yeah I do it for hip-hop uh [02:42.95] [02:43.87]I do it for hip-hop [02:45.71]Hip-hop started out in the park [02:48.36]We used to do it to avoid the Narcs [02:51.19]I used to do it so the homeboy Clark can get the f**k off [02:54.21]My back while I knocked off these packs [02:56.93]I used to rap to impress my friends [02:58.82] [02:59.40]The past of time when I was gettin' it in [03:01.51]Just so happens I'm so illegal with the pen they ain't [03:05.19]Want me to do anything illegal again [03:07.30] [03:08.15]I lost a lot of dawgs to these streets [03:10.74]I got Grammy awards on these beats [03:12.98] [03:14.02]Thank God for Cool Herc [03:15.31] [03:15.91]Without this sh*t I probably would've got murked [03:18.25] [03:18.85]Shout outs to Grandmaster Flash and the cash [03:21.37] [03:22.01]And even Jaz bum a** [03:23.60] [03:24.13]Hip hop helped me wash my rocks [03:26.18] [03:26.94]These other rappers couldn't wash my socks [03:29.10] [03:29.62]That's why I took the number one slot [03:32.16]The realest sh*t in rap comes from my voice box [03:34.58] [03:35.11]Lord knows when I was on my clock [03:37.31]I probably never would've stopped [03:38.78]Thank God for hip-hop [03:40.17]I don't do for the cars and the fancy drops [03:43.09] [03:44.07]I do it for hip-hop [03:45.38] [03:46.78]I do it for hip-hop [03:48.33] [03:49.43]I do it for hip-hop [03:51.02]And I don't do for the chains and the flashin' rocks [03:53.89] [03:54.41]Come on I do it for hip-hop [03:56.35] [03:57.68]I do it for hip-hop [03:59.48] [04:00.33]I do it for hip-hop