Love Of My Life (Featuring Common) - The Roots, Common

Make some noise if you're with me Come on y'all, make some noise if you're with me Make some noise if you're with me Make some noise if you're with me It's like that y'all, and

it sounds so nice

Hip-hop, you the love of my life

We 'bout to go to the top, y’all

Hip-hop hu, to the top hu Hip-hop check it out

It’s like that y’all, and it sounds so nice

Hip-hop, you the love of my life

We 'bout to go to the to the to the

To the to the to the to the

To the to the to the to the

To the to the to the to the check it out

The anticipation arose as time froze

I stared off the stage with my eyes closed and dove

Into the deep cosmos

The impact pushed back, twenty five rows

But before the raw live shows, come on I’se a little snot-nosed

Rockin' Gazelle, goggles and Izod clothes

Learnin' the ropes of ghetto survival

Peepin' out the situation I had to slide through

Had to watch my back my front plus my sides too

But when it came to gettin' mine I ain’t tryin', to argue

Sometimes I wouldn’ta made it if it wasn’t for you

Hip-hop, you the love of my life and that’s true

When I was handlin' the shit I had to do It was all for you, from the door for you

Speak through you, gettin' paper on tour for you

From the start, thought was down by law for you

I used to hit up every corner store wall for you

We ripped shit, and kept it hardcore for you

I remember late nights, steady rockin' the mic

Hip-hop, you the love of my life

Tell the people like that y’all, that y’all

And it sounds so nice

Hip-hop, you the love of my life

We 'bout to take it to the top

To the top, to the top, to the top, to the top

To the top, to the top, to the top, check it out

It’s like that y’all, and it sounds so nice

Hip-hop, you the love of my life

We 'bout to go to the to the to the

To the to the to the to the

To the to the to the to the

To the to the to the to the check it out

Yo, yo I was speakin', to my guy 'Riq and

How she was desperately seekin' to organize in a confusion

Usin', no protection, told her on resurrection

Caught in the Hype Williams, and lost her direction

Gettin' ate in sections where I wouldn’t eat her

An under the counter love, so silently I treat her

Her daddy’ll beat her, eyes all Puffed

In the mix on tape, niggas had her in the buff

When we touch, it was more than just a fuck

The Police, in her I found peace, like who?

Like Malcolm in the East, seen her on the streets of New York, trickin' off

Tried to make a hit with her but my dick went soft

Movin' weight, losin' weight, not picky with who she choose to date

To confuse the hate, with her struggle I relate

Close to thirty, most of the niggas she know is dirty

Havin' more babies than Lauryn, she started showin' early

As of late I realized, that this is her fate

Or destiny that brings the best of me it’s like God is testin' me In retrospect I see she brought life and death to me Peace to us collectively, live and direct when we perform

It’s just coffee shop chicks and white dudes

Over her I got into it with that nigga Ice Cube

Now the fight moved to in life, makin' the right moves

Besides God and family, you my life’s jewel

Like that y’all, and it sounds so nice

Hip-hop, you the love of my life

We 'bout to go to the top, y’all

Hip-hop hu, to the top hu Hip-hop hu It’s like that y’all, and it sounds so nice

Hip-hop, you the love of my life

We 'bout to go to the to the to the

To the to the to the to the

To the to the to the to the

To the to the to the to the