1st Love (An Ode To Hip Hop) Lyrics

Uh uh uh uh uh

What up man

Uh uh uh uh uh uh

You know I

Just want to take you back

Take you back to a time

You know to a time where it all began for me

So listen up

It was a dark early morning in July

A young star was born and so my destiny was all aligned

Uh seven eleven was the day my mother birthed her seed

Father was always present carried out the family tree

I had a older brother older sister then came me

A few years later a little brother completed the masterpiece

Lived right in the hood so we had it rough and we ain't have much

But always had enough uh

Moms working overtime pops doing two jobs

Just to keep the youth alive stains on my uniform

Stains on my and ones I ain't have no Jordans then

I had Shaq's on friends like what you call them

Roaches on the cereal was scary yo

But I swear man these were the best years though

I'm talking years ago with gold chains and the big ropes

Girls with door knockers on their earlobes

This was my first time listening to the radio

Something so divine coming straight up out the stereo

That my uncle had as I go back

Reminiscing head nodding with my toe tapping

Uh man the voice was so classic

Screaming represent represent it was Illmatic

Man I been hypnotize since back then

A student of the game ever since uh

I always knew I'd make it big as a rapper

Before I had It I closed my eyes and imagined imagined

Nas and Lauryn once told me I could rule the world

But Nas also told you that the world was yours just imagine

From hanging pictures on the wall of the late Biggie Smalls

Tupac Shakur's Outkast and Dilla Dawg

We was rhyming in the school halls

Beat boxing on the table freestyle galore

Hit the block hit the corner brother's all up on the corner

In a cypher altogether chilling smoking marijuana

Call em street performers they was kicking them verses

About they broads bout they cars heavy purchases

And though we ain't have none we ain't have no funds

But we still had fun

With street scriptures and street culture

Mixed with street flows and street rhythm

Mixed with street wisdom Hieroglyphic's and black children

It's ironic how we created our own science like our old ancestors

Every verse is like a prism it keeps building listen

With every rhyme there's like a hidden gem there

With every line there's like a dollar cent there what's your incentives uh

Rap is big business either you play or witness uh

One of the most terrific most gifted

Most complicated flows killer instincts Lord's my witness uh

I know that this is God given uh from the bars to the rhymes that I've written uh

So let the story tell itself my fellow love is Hip Hop and it ain't nothing else

I always knew I'd make it big as a rapper

Before I had It I closed my eyes and imagined imagined

Nas and Lauryn once told me I could rule the world

But Nas also told you that the world was yours just imagine

One two one two

I could rule the world

The world is yours just imagine

Aight kids I'm out peace

Goodnight

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