[ti:Hip-Hop Saved My Life] [ar:Lupe Fiasco] [al:The Cool] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hip-Hop Saved My Life (feat. Nikki Jean) - Lupe Fiasco/Nikki Jean [00:01.75]Dedicate dedicate' hu [00:04.18]This one right here' goes out [00:06.53]To my homie with a dream' naw mean [00:10.14]He said' I write what I see [00:12.18]Write to make it right don't like where I be [00:14.34]I'd like to make it like the sites on tv [00:16.94]Quite the great life so nice and easy [00:19.34]See' now you can still die from that [00:21.61]But it's better than not being alive from straps' agreed [00:24.70]A mead notebook and a bic that clicked [00:26.90]When it's pushed in a wack a** beat [00:28.74]That's a track that's week that he got last week [00:31.13]Cause everybody in the stu was like that's that heat [00:33.68]A bass heavy melody with a sample from the 70's [00:36.00]With a screwed up hook that went stack that cheese [00:38.57]Something' something' something stack that cheese [00:41.01]Mother' sister' cousin stack that cheese [00:43.33]He couldn't think of nothing stack that cheese [00:45.70]He turns down the beat writers block impiedes [00:48.19]Crying from the next room a baby in need [00:50.33]Of some pampers and some food and a place to sleep [00:53.00]That plus a black cadillac on d's [00:55.17]Is what keeps them on track to be a great mc [00:57.82]One you've never heard of' I [01:00.29]Push it hard to further' but [01:02.70]Why I feel like murder but [01:05.38]Hip hop can save me [01:07.47]One you've never heard of' I [01:09.90]Push it hard to further' but [01:12.28]Why I feel like murder but [01:14.96]Hip hop could save my life [01:17.08]Reps north side so he rocks them braids [01:19.32]Eleven hundred friends on his myspace page [01:21.74]Stack that cheese got 700 plays [01:24.09]Producer made him take it down said he had to pay [01:26.61]Open mic champ two weeks and a row [01:29.00]Ex d boy with a b boy flow [01:31.16]Glow like leroy you should see boy go [01:33.49]Got a daddy surving life and a brother on the road [01:36.23]Best homie in the grave [01:37.43]Tatted up while in the cage [01:38.64]Minute maid got his mother working like a slave [01:41.06]Down baby mamma who he really had to honor [01:43.12]Cause she was his biggest fan even let him use the honda [01:45.52]To' drive up to dallas with and open up for amauters [01:48.15]Let him keep a debit card so he could put gas in it [01:50.65]Told her when he get on he gon' take her to the gallery [01:52.80]And buy everything but the manicans ya digg [01:55.39]One you've never heard of' I [01:57.86]Push it hard to further' but [02:00.28]Why I feel like murder but [02:02.90]Hip hop can save me [02:05.07]One you've never heard of' I [02:07.48]Push it hard to further' but [02:09.89]Why I feel like murder but [02:12.58]Hip hop could save my life [02:14.50]His man called said your time might be now' [02:16.85]They played your freestyle over 'wipe me down' [02:19.26]They played it two times said it might be crowned [02:21.53]As the best thing out of h town in a while [02:24.09]He picked up his son with a great big smile [02:26.32]Rapped every single word to the new born child [02:28.93]Then he put him down and went back to the kitchen [02:31.07]And then put on another beat and got back to the mission to [02:33.76]Get his momma out the hood [02:34.99]Put her somewhere in the woods [02:36.20]Keep his lady looking good [02:37.40]Have her rolling like she should [02:38.60]Show his homies there's a way [02:39.82]Other than that flippin yay [02:41.03]Bail his homie out of jail [02:42.22]Put a lawyer on his case [02:43.42]Throw a concert for the schools [02:44.60]Show to show cause that is cool [02:45.78]Throw some candy on the cadi [02:47.02]Chunk the duce and act a fool [02:48.24]Man it feels good when it happens like that [02:50.26]Two days from going back to selling crack [02:52.26]Yes-ssirr [02:53.03]One you've never heard of' I [02:55.49]Push it hard to further' but [02:57.89]Why I feel like murder but [03:00.49]Hip hop can save me [03:02.69]One you've never heard of' I [03:05.08]Push it hard to further' but [03:07.53]Why I feel like murder but [03:10.12]Hip hop could save my life [03:12.28]One you've never heard of' I [03:14.65]Push it hard to further' but [03:17.09]Why I feel like murder but [03:19.67]Hip hop can save me [03:21.82]One you've never heard of' I [03:24.26]Push it hard to further' but [03:26.69]Why I feel like murder but [03:29.27]Hip hop could save my life [03:38.86]Hip hop could save my life [03:48.46]Hip hop could save my life [03:58.12]Hip hop could save my life