The Roots, Common - Act Too (Love Of My Life)

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[00:48.39] Hip-Hop Hip-Hop love [00:49.97] To the top, Hip-Hop, check it out [00:51.29] It's like, word up, and it sounds so nice [00:54.64] Hip-Hop, you the love of my life [00:56.10] The anticipation arose as time froze [00:59.91] I stared off the stage with my eyes closed [01:02.59] And dove into the deep Cosmos [01:04.21] The impact pushed back, the first five rows [01:06.62] But before the raw live shows [01:08.90] I remember I's a little snot-nosed [01:10.33] Rockin' Gazelle, goggles and Izod clothes [01:13.05] Learnin' the ropes of ghetto survival [01:15.30] Peepin' out the situation I had to slide through [01:17.92] Had to watch my back my front plus my sides too [01:20.52] When it came to gettin' mine I ain't tryin', to argue [01:23.05] Sometimes I wouldn't a made it if it wasn't for you [01:25.62] Hip-Hop, you the love of my life and that's true [01:28.46] When I was handlin' the shit I had to do [01:30.70] It was all for you, from the door for you [01:33.29] Speak through you, gettin' paper on tour for you [01:35.85] From the start, thought was down by law for you [01:38.38] Used to hit up every corner store wall for you [01:40.99] We ripped shit, and kept it hardcore for you [01:43.55] I remember late nights, steady rockin' the mic [01:46.24] Hip-Hop, you the love of my life [01:48.14] So tell the people like that y'all [01:49.94] And it sounds so nice [01:51.44] Hip-Hop, you the love of my life [01:53.38] We 'bout to take it to the top [01:54.74] Yo, yo I was speakin', to my guy 'Riq and [01:57.91] How she was desperately seekin' [01:59.17] To organize in a confusion [01:59.92] Usin', no protection, told her on resurrection [02:01.12] Caught in the Hype Williams, and lost her direction [02:04.44] Gettin' eight ate in sections where I wouldn't eat her [02:07.26] An under the counter love, so silently I treat her [02:09.77] Her Daddy beat her, eyes all puffed [02:12.39] In the mix on tape, niggaz had her in the buff [02:14.78] When we touch, it was more than just a fuck [02:16.92] The Police, in her I found peace [02:18.52] Like Malcolm in the East [02:20.18] Seen her on the streets of New York, trickin' off [02:22.58] Tried to make a hit with her but my dick went soft [02:24.91] Movin' weight, losin' weight, not picky [02:26.90] With who she choose to date [02:28.37] To confuse the hate, with her struggle I relate [02:30.43] Close to thirty, most of the niggaz she know is dirty [02:32.76] Havin' more babies than Lauryn, she started showin' early [02:35.43] As of late I realized, that this is her fate [02:37.95] Or destiny that brings the best of me [02:39.95] It's like God is testin' me [02:40.99] In retrospect I see she brought life and death to me [02:43.37] Peace to us collectively, live and direct when we perform [02:46.06] It's just coffee shop chicks and white dudes [02:48.57] Over her I got into it with that nigga Ice Cube [02:51.26] Now the fight moved to in life, makin' the right moves [02:53.42] Besides God and family, you my life's jewel [02:55.51] Like that y'all [02:57.35] Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop [03:00.54] Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop [03:02.58] Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop [03:35.05] Take it to the top, what? 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