I Do It For Hip Hop (Album Version|Edited)

I Do It For Hip Hop (Album Version|Edited) - Ludacris/Nas/Jay-Z

Lyrics by：Christopher Bridges/Wyatt Coleman/Youtha Fowler/Nasir Jones/Shawn Carter

Composed by：Christopher Bridges/Wyatt Coleman/Youtha Fowler/Nasir Jones/Shawn Carter

Ludacris：

I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop

Ludacris：

Now this is what they call poetry in motion

My soul bleeds on the paper heart screams with emotion

It's my daily devotion the verses stay deeper than the ocean

So hip-hop you owe me a promotion

Yeah I do a little boastin and braggin

What's all the commotion and naggin about cause I'm still the champ in the South

Cause rappers get in the booth and I keep draggin em out

Well they're fired and these pink slips I'm handin em out

Cause this is Theater of the Mind consider it a sign

Of what's to come next my money's just fine

Bank filled with dumb checks terrorist threat flow

Proceed to drop bombs like Mr. Funk Flex

But I don't do it for the money I do it from the heart

I do it with the beat box I did it from the start

I do it for the dee jays I do it for the charts

The Van Gogh flow Luda do it cause it's art

I do it for the fans I do it on command

I do it for the front row I do it for the stands

I spit it for the hood I do it for the block

And since nine years old I did it for hip-hop so

Ludacris：

I don't do it for them cars and the fancy drops

I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop

And I don't it for the chains and the flashin rocks

I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop

Nas：

Uhh uhh uh

They say I'm so low key I'm socially awkward

Only n***as who really know me who I talk with

They smile in the light hate in the dark

You call it beef to me it's just a f**kin walk in the park

Cause you are who you are when nobody's lookin

That's who you are so when the cash and the cars is gone

The day after tomorrow don't be askin to borrow

Ski mask it hard like the way you rap in your bars

I can ride on you and whoever devise new endeavors

I'm as live as a hive full of predators

Twenty thousand different species of bees

Some have poisonous stings some just pollen their leaves

It's like rap some just buzz some will attack

Compromise their own life in fact

Sixteen years since my first sixteen

Pardon the rest of my n***as but I'm the best who's ever did it

Ludacris/Nas：

I don't do for the cars and the fancy drops

Uh I do it for hip-hop

Yeah I do it for hip-hop

Uh I do it for hip-hop

And I don't do for the chains and the flashin' rocks

Why we do it kid I do it for hip-hop

Yeah I do it for hip-hop

Uh I do it for hip-hop

Jay-Z：

Hip-hop started out in the park

We used to do it to avoid the Narcs

I used to do it so the homeboy Clark

Can get the f**k off my back while I knocked off these packs

I used to rap to impress my friends

To pass the time while I was gettin' it in

Just so happens I'm so illegal with the pen

They ain't want me doin' anything illegal again

I lost a lot of dogs to these streets

I got Grammy Awards on these beats

Thank God for Kool Herc

Without your s**t I probably would've got murked

Shout out to Grandmaster Flash and to Caz

And even Jaz bum-a*s

Hip-hop helped me wash my rocks

These other rappers couldn't wash my socks

That's why I took the number one slot

The realest s**t in rap comes from my voice box

Lord knows when I was on my clock

I prolly never woulda stopped thank God for hip-hop

Ludacris/Jay-Z：

I don't do for the cars and the fancy drops

Uh I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop

And I don't do for the chains and the flashin' rocks

Come on I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop

Now this is what they call poetry in motion

Now this is what they call poetry in motion

Now this is what they call poetry in motion

Now this is what they call poetry in motion

Ludacris：

I don't do it for them cars and the fancy drops

I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop

And I don't it for the chains and the flashin rocks

I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop

I do it for hip-hop