Hip-Hop

Chant
Hip-hop (x16) / (simultaneously) the real hip-hop (x7)
You don't stop

Chorus
Hip-hop (x16) / (simultaneously) / hip-hop, hip-hop, hip-hop
I thank God for hip-hop, hip-hop, hip-hop
It’s all down to hip hop, hip-hop, hip-hop
I thank God for hip-hop, hip-hop, hip-hop, yeah

Verse One
I could have been a Crack Dealer; ay yo I could have a murderer
Could have been a Mickey D's manager flipping burgers
I could have been a burglar; I could have been the worst
Rapper on this planet that y'all never even heard of
I could have been a Doctor maybe even a Lawyer
I could have been an employee not an employer
I could have a been a car jacker or got jacked
I could have got shot in the back and that’s that
I could have been incarcerated for mad years
Step out into the real world and not change gears
I could have been rich, squandered all my money and switched
And ended up a broke in a ditch
I could have been crazy and not been smart
I could have been emotionless and had no heart
I could have put money over love
I could have put the world before God and not worked hard
I could have been ruthless, I could have been a nerd
Geek or a doofus I could have been useless
I could have signed a bogus record contract
Depressed cos my music ain't out and I'm trapped
I could have stayed in one place all my life
I could have had a cheating wife who don't act right
I could have not known how to bless the mic
But I do and it's been alright and that's down to hip-hop

Chorus

Chant

Verse Two
I could have been the last sperm drop instead of the first
I could have been cursed I could be dead laying in a hearse
I don't worry if I'm not the best I could have been the worst
I could be up in the third world dying of thirst
I could have had a one page story without no chapters
Could have been unintelligent a bit backwards
With my eyes on the wrong prize and distracted
I could have been slacking and lacking the right package
I could have been wondering what if
I could have been deluded and living a myth
Smoking a spliff and suffering from alcohol abuse
I could have been hidden from the truth I could be proof
That young black men make the best of their youth
This is real talk straight from the booth
I could have had no clue and no tenacity
I could have been suppressed and never reaching my capacity
I could have been nothing I could have been no one
I could have been 00 I’d rather be 01
I could have done put in time and had no fun
And made no money but rather me owe some
I could have been a whole lot of things
Some worse some better some you lose some you win
I could have not known how to rock the mic
But I do it became my life and that’s down to hip-hop

Chorus

Chant

Outro Chant
Hip-hop (x32)