Love Of My Life - The Roots

Love Of My Life - The Roots/Common (凡夫俗子)
Make some noise if you're with me
Come on y'all make some noise if you're with me
Make some noise if you're with me
Make some noise if you're with me
It's like that y'all and it sounds so nice
Hip-hop you the love of my life
We 'bout to go to the top y'all
Hip-hop hu to the top hu
Hip-hop check it out
It's like that y'all and it sounds so nice
Hip-hop you the love of my life
We 'bout to go to the to the to the
To the to the to the to the
To the to the to the to the
To the to the to the to the check it out
The anticipation arose as time froze
I stared off the stage with my eyes closed and dove
Into the deep cosmos
The impact pushed back twenty five rows
But before the raw live shows
Come on I'se a little snot-nosed
Rockin' Gazelle goggles and Izod clothes
Learnin' the ropes of ghetto survival
Peepin' out the situation I had to slide through
Had to watch my back my front plus my sides too
But when it came to gettin' mine I ain't tryin' to argue
Sometimes I wouldn'ta made it if it wasn't for you
Hip-hop you the love of my life and that's true
When I was handlin' the sh*t I had to do
It was all for you from the door for you
Speak through you gettin' paper on tour for you
From the start thought was down by law for you
I used to hit up every corner store wall for you
We ripped sh*t and kept it hardcore for you
I remember late nights steady rockin' the mic
Hip-hop you the love of my life
Tell the people like that y'all that y'all
And it sounds so nice
Hip-hop you the love of my life
We 'bout to take it to the top
To the top to the top to the top to the top
To the top to the top to the top check it out
It's like that y'all and it sounds so nice
Hip-hop you the love of my life
We 'bout to go to the to the to the
To the to the to the to the
To the to the to the to the
To the to the to the to the check it out
Yo yo I was speakin' to my guy 'Riq and
How she was desperately seekin'
To organize in a confusion
Usin' no protection told her on resurrection
Caught in the Hype Williams
And lost her direction
Gettin' ate in sections where I wouldn't eat her
An under the counter love so silently I treat her
Her daddy'll beat her eyes all Puffed
In the mix on tape niggaz had her in the buff
When we touch it was more than just a f**k
The Police in her I found peace like who
Like Malcolm in the East
Seen her on the streets of New York trickin' off
Tried to make a hit with her but my dick went soft
Movin' weight losin' weight not picky
With who she choose to date
To confuse the hate
With her struggle I relate
Close to thirty most of the niggaz she know is dirty
Havin' more babies than Lauryn
She started showin' early
As of late I realized that this is her fate
Or destiny that brings the best of me
It's like God is testin' me
In retrospect I see she brought life and death to me
Peace to us collectively
Live and direct when we perform
It's just coffee shop chicks and white dudes
Over her I got into it with that ni**a Ice Cube
Now the fight moved to in life
Makin' the right moves
Besides God and family you my life's jewel
Like that y'all and it sounds so nice
Hip-hop you the love of my life
We 'bout to go to the top y'all
Hip-hop hu to the top hu
Hip-hop hu
It's like that y'all and it sounds so nice
Hip-hop you the love of my life
We 'bout to go to the to the to the
To the to the to the to the
To the to the to the to the
To the to the to the to the