[Chorus: Nas & will.i.am]
If hip hop should die before✦ I wake
I'll put an extended✦ clip and body✦ 'em all day
Roll to every✦ station,✦ wreck the DJ
Roll to every✦ station,✦ wreck the DJ
If hip hop should die before✦ I wake
I'll load an extended✦ clip and body✦ 'em all day
Roll to every✦ station,✦ wreck the DJ
Roll to every✦ station,✦ wreck the DJ
(Hip hop just died this morning✦
And she's dead, she's dead)
[Verse 2: Nas]
The bigger✦ the cap, the bigger✦ the peeling
Come through, something ill, missing the ceiling
What influenced my raps? Stick-ups and killings
Kidnappings, project buildings, drug dealings
Criticize✦ that – why's that?
'Cause Nas rap is compared to legitimized crack
'Cause we love to talk on nasty✦ chickens
Most intellectuals will only✦ half-listen
So you can't blame jazz musicians
Or David Stern with his NBA fashion✦ issues✦
"Oh, I think they like me, in my white tee"
You can't ice me, we here for life, B
On my second marriage, hip hop's my first wifey✦
And for that, we not taking it lightly
If hip hop should die, we die together✦
Bodies✦ in the morgue lie together,✦ all together✦ now
[Chorus: Nas & will.i.am]
If hip hop should die before✦ I wake
I'll put an extended✦ clip and body✦ 'em all day
Roll to every✦ station,✦ wreck the DJ
Roll to every✦ station,✦ wreck the DJ
If hip hop should die before✦ I wake
I'll load an extended✦ clip and body✦ 'em all day
Roll to every✦ station,✦ wreck the DJ
Roll to every✦ station,✦ wreck the DJ
(Hip hop just died this morning✦
Hip hop just died this morning✦
Hip hop just died this morning✦
And she's dead, she's dead)
[Verse 3: Nas]
Everybody sound the same, commercialize✦ the game
Reminiscing when it wasn't all business
It forgot where it started✦
So we all gather✦ here for the dearly✦ departed✦
Hip-hopper, since a toddler
One homeboy became✦ a man, then a mobster
If it dies, let me get my last swig of vodka✦
R.I.P. – we'll donate✦ your lungs to a rasta✦
Went from turntables to MP3's
From Beat Street to commercials✦ on Mickey✦ D's
From gold cables✦ to Jacob's
From plain facials✦ to Botox and face lifts
I'm looking over✦ my shoulder
It's about✦ 80 people from my hood that showed✦ up
And they came to show love
Sold out concert and the doors are closed✦ shut