*DJ samples*]    "Hip hop" "hip hop" "is dead"    "Hip--hip hop" "hip hop" "is dead"    "Hip--hip hop" "hip--hip hop" "is dead"    "Hip--hip hop" "hip hop" "hip hop"       [Hook]    If hip hop should die before I wake    I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK    Roll to every station, murder the DJ    Roll to every station, murder the DJ       If hip hop should die before I wake    I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK    Roll to every station, murder the DJ    Roll to every station, murder the DJ       [sample]    Hip hop just died this mornin'    And she's dead, she's dead       [Verse 1]    Yeah, niggaz smoke, laugh, party, and die in the same corner    Get cash, live fast, body their man's mama    Rich ass niggaz is ridin' with three llamas    Revenge in their eyes, Hennesy and the ganja    Word to the wise with villain state of minds    Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind    Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind    (Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind)    Whenever, if ever, I roll up, it's sown up    Any ghetto will tell ya Nas helped grow us up    My face once graced promotional Sony trucks    Hundred million in billin', I helped build 'em up    Gave my nigga my right, I could have gave left    So like my girl Foxy, a nigga went Def    So nigga, who's your top ten?    Is it MC Shan? Is it MC Ren?       [Hook]    If hip hop should die before I wake    I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK    Roll to every station, murder the DJ    Roll to every station, murder the DJ       If hip hop should die before I wake    I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK    Roll to every station, murder the DJ    Roll to every station, murder the DJ    [sample]    Hip hop just died this mornin'    And she's dead, she's dead       [Verse 2]    The bigger the cap, the bigger the peelin'    Come through, something ill, missin' the ceilin'    What influenced my raps? Stick ups and killings    Kidnappings, project buildings, drug dealings    Criticize that, why is that?    Cuz Nas rap is compared to legitimized crap    Cuz we love to talk on ass we gettin'    Most intellectuals will only half listen    So you can't blame jazz musicians    Or David Stern with his NBA fashion issues    Oh I they like me--in my white tee    You can't ice me, we here for life B    On my second marriage, hip hop's my first wifey    And for that we not takin' it lightly    If hip hop should die we die together    Bodies in the morgue lie together    All together now       [Hook]    If hip hop should die before I wake    I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK    Roll to every station, murder the DJ    Roll to every station, murder the DJ       If hip hop should die before I wake    I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK    Roll to every station, murder the DJ    Roll to every station, murder the DJ       [sample]    Hip hop just died this mornin'    Hip hop just died this mornin'    Hip hop just died this mornin'    And she's dead, she's dead       {*crowd chanting "Hip hop!" becomes beat*}       [Verse 3]    Everybody sound the same, commercialize the game    Reminiscin' when it wasn't all business    If it got where it started    So we all gather here for the dearly departed    Hip hopper since a toddler    One homeboy became a man then a mobster    If the guys let me get my last swig of Vodka    R.I.P., we'll donate your lungs to a rasta    Went from turntables to mp3s    From "Beat Street" to commercials on Mickey D's    From gold cables to Jacobs    From plain facials to Botox and face lifts    I'm lookin' over my shoulder    It's about eighty niggaz from my hood that showed up    And they came to show love    Sold out concert and the doors are closed shut