Hip Hop Saved My Life (Live from Miami Beach)

Hip Hop Saved My Life (Live from Miami Beach) - Lupe Fiasco/Nu Deco Ensemble/Jacomo Bairos/Sam Hyken/Nikki Jean

Composed by：Wasalu Jaco/LEARY NICHOLLE JEAN/LOPEZ RUDOLPH LOYOLA/Soundtrakk

Produced by：Sam Hyken/Jacomo Bairos/Lupe Fiasco/Charlton “Chip” Williams

He said "I write what I see"

Write to make it right

Don't like where I be

I like to make it like

The sights on tv

Quite the great life so nice and easy

See now you can still die from that

But it's better than not being alive from straps

Agreed a mead notebook and a Bic that clicks

When it's pushed a a wack ass beat

That's a track that's weak

That he got last week

Cause everybody in the studio was like "That's the heat"

A bass heavy medley with a sample from the 70's

With a screwed up hook that went

Stack that cheese

Something something something

Stack that cheese

Mother sister cousin

Stack that cheese

He couldn't think of nothing

Stack that cheese

He turns down the beat writers block impedes

Crying from the next room a baby in need

Of some pampers and some food and place to sleep

That plus a black cadillac on D's

Is what keep him on track to be a great MC

One you never heard of

I push it hard to further the

Grind I feel like murder but

Hip hop has saved me

One you never heard of

I push it hard to further the

Grind I feel like murder but

Hip hop has saved my life

Reps Northside so he rocks them braids

Eleven hundred friends on his myspace page

Stack that cheese got seven hundred plays

Producer made him take it down said he had to pay

Open mic champ two weeks in a row

Ex D-boy with a B-boy flow

Glow like Leroy you should see boy go

Got a daddy serving life and a brother on the row

Best homie in the grave tatted up while the in cage

Minute-maid got his momma working like a slave

Down baby momma who he really had to honor 'cause she was his biggest fan

Even let him use the Honda

Drive up to Dallas went to open up for amateurs

Let him keep her debit card so he could put has in it

Told her when he get on he gonna take her to the galleria

Buy up everything but the mannequins ya dig

One you never heard of

I push it hard to further the

Grind I feel like murder but

Hip hop has saved me

One you never heard of

I push it hard to further the

Grind I feel like murder but

Hip hop has saved my life

His man called said "Your time might be now"

They played your freestyle over "Wipe me down"

They played it two times said it might be crowned

As the best thing out the H-town in a while

He picked up his son with a great big smile

Rapped every single word to the newborn child

Then he put 'em down and went back to the kitchen

And put on another beat and got back to the mission

Of get his momma out of the hood put her somewhere in the woods

Keep his lady looking good have her rolling like she should

Show his homies there's a way other than flipping yay

Bail his homie outta jail put a lawyer on his case

Throw a concert for the school show the shorties that it's cool

Throw some candy on the caddy chuck the deuce and act a fool

Man it feels good when it happens like that

Two days from going back to selling crack yes sir

One you never heard of

I push it hard to further the

Grind I feel like murder but

Hip hop has save me

One you never heard of

I push it hard to further the

Grind I feel like murder but

Hip hop has save my life

One you never heard of

I push it hard to further the

Grind I feel like murder but

Hip hop has save me

One you never heard of

I push it hard to further the

Grind I feel like murder but

Hip hop has save my life

Hip hop has save my life

Hip hop has save my life

Hip hop has save my life