Hip Hop Saved My Life Lyrics - Lupe Fiasco's The Cool - Lupe Fiasco

Dedicate dedicate 

(Lupe speaking) 

Uh this one right here goes out 

To my homie with the dream 

Nahmean 

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 click 

When it's pushed and a wack ass beat 

Thats a track thats weak 

That he got last week 

Cuz everybody in the studio 

Was like "thats that heat" 

A bass heavy medley with a 

sample from the 70s 

With a screwed up hook that went 

STACK THAT CHEESE 

Something somethin somethin 

STACK THAT CHEESE 

Mother sister cousin 

STACK THAT CHEESE 

He couldnt think of nothin 

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 a place to sleep 

That plus a black cadillac on D's 

Is what keep him on track to be a great MC 

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(Chorus: Nikki Jean) 

One you never heard of 

I push it hard to further the 

Grind I feel like murder but 

Hip Hop has saved my life (Repeat) 

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 2 weeks in a row 

Ex D-boy with a B-boy flow 

Glow like Leroy you should see boy go 

Got a daddy servin life and 

a brother on The Row 

Best homie in the grave 

Tatted up while in the cage 

Minutemaid got his momma workin like a slave 

Down baby momma who he really had to honor 

Cuz 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 gas in it 

Told her when he get on 

He gonna take her to the gallery 

Buy up everything but the mannequins ya dig 

Photos 

One you never heard of 

I push it hard to further the 

Grind I feel like murder but 

Hip Hop has saved my life (Repeat) 

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 

Put on another beat and got 

back to the mission 

Of get his momma out the hood 

Put her somewhere in the woods 

Keep his lady lookin good 

Have her rolling like she should 

Show his homies theres a way 

Other than flippin' yay 

Bail his homie outta jail 

Put a lawyer on his case 

Throw a concert for the school 

Show the shorties thats it cool 

Throw some candy on the caddy 

Chuck the duece and act a fool 

Man it feels good when it happens like that 

Two days from goin back to sellin' crack yessir 

One you never heard of 

I push it hard to further the 

Grind I feel like murder but 

Hip Hop has saved my life 

(Repeat 3x) 

Hip hope has saved my life 

Hip hope has saved my life 

Hip hope has saved my life 

Hip hope has saved my life