Hope lyrics

Artist  : Nas 
Song : Hope



 Send "Hope" Ringtone to your Cell 

 Hip-hop, it will never die

Hip-hop, hip-hop will never, never die



Ghetto **** struttin' with nothin' but dreams and
Queens broke

Mack-10's, you can smell the PCP smoke

Mele Mel told it real in the music he wrote

Those were the days I remember, we used to be
close



Then I was nine, coldest winter I remember

Was slippin' in December, two feet of snow

Yeah, that's the East Coast, that black ice

Symbolized the rap life, it was slick and
smooth

I understood I had to come from the hood



Doin' the Pee Wee Herman, the Smurf

Before them phones chirped

The block's drugs flowin', didn't have your own
work

You had to have somebody else's, a small chrome
on your pelvis

Starter Jacket, Blue Georgetown or Green
Celtic



Your girl's too expensive, she wants shellfish

Red Lobster was poppin', standin' on that line
forever

I wish somebody would step on my Bally
leather's

Now it's whatever, hip-hop's forever



Kept my radio on 98 or BLS

Had a pre-pubescent lyric gift but **** never
hear me spit

My little brother tried to warn 'em, I was a
tornado comin'

He knew from inside, like the eye of a storm and
told my pops about it



He gave us tickets to that Wild Style flick

Double Trouble, retarded, we was the proudest

I never had a summer job, sweepin' leaves, socks
to my knees

Homemade shorts cutoff, Lee's



I ain't work a day in my life

Wipin' away eraser of the paper man

I'm just tryin' to say it right

Big radio, tape slowin' down



Lower the lights go, battery dead

I gotta freeze 'em 'til they ice cold

In the freezer later, I'm starin' at the
speaker

Sunk in them 808's deeper, cleanin' my
sneakers



Wit' the bristles of a toothbrush, soap and
water

I let the shoe strings soak in water



Live hip-hop live, live hip-hop live

Give hip-hop give, give hip-hop give

Stay hip-hop stay, stay hip-hop stay

I pray, hip-hop pray, I pray hip-hop stays



Ain't got nothin' to do wit old school, new
school

Dirty South, West Coast, East Coast

This about us, this our thing, 'knaw'sayin'?

This came from the gut, from the blood, from the
soul

Right here man, this is our thing man, you know,
so I say what I say



Live hip-hop live, live hip-hop live

Give hip-hop give, give hip-hop give

Stay hip-hop stay, stay hip-hop stay

I pray, hip-hop pray, I pray hip-hop stays



And I say what I say, and I mean it

Y'all take it how you wanna take it

'Cause if you're askin', why is hip-hop dead?

It's a pretty good chance you're the reason it
died, man



It's a pretty good chance your lame ****

Corny ****, is the reason it died, man

You don't give a **** about, you don't know
nothin' about it

You want this paper, be a hustler



Live hip-hop live, live hip-hop live

Give hip-hop give, give hip-hop give

Stay hip-hop stay, stay hip-hop stay

I pray, hip-hop pray, I pray hip-hop stays



You a hustler, you ain't a rapper

Get your paper man

You know what I'm sayin', but this rap **** is
real

****, this **** is real, ****



Stay hip-hop stay, stay hip-hop stay

  (Live, live)

I pray, hip-hop pray, I pray hip-hop stays

  (Give)



Live hip-hop live, live hip-hop live

  (Stay)

Give hip-hop give, give hip-hop give

Stay hip-hop stay, stay hip-hop stay

I pray, hip-hop pray, I pray hip-hop stays