The Roots, Common - Act Too (Love Of My Life)(1999)

[00:27.86] What?
[00:28.99] Hip-Hop y'all, to the top y'all
[00:30.48] Hip-Hop check it out
[00:31.50] It's like that, and it sounds so nice
[00:34.19] Hip-Hop, you the love of my life
[00:36.26] We 'bout to take it to the to the to the
[00:37.74] To the to the to the to the
[00:38.69] To the to the to the to the
[00:40.19] To the to the to the to the check it out
[00:41.83] Yo, what? And it sounds so nice
[00:44.30] Hip-Hop, you the love of my life
[00:46.66] I'm 'bout to take it to the top, what?
[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? Hip-Hop
[03:36.79] To the top, Hip-Hop check it out
[03:39.42] It's like, word up, and it sounds nice
[03:42.48] Hip-Hop, you the love of my life, what?
[03:44.93] 'Bout to take you to the to the to the
[03:46.28] To the to the to the to the
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[03:48.43] To the to the to the to the, yo
[03:49.97] Fifth Dynamite, and it sounds so nice
[03:52.87] Hip-Hop, you the love of my life
[03:54.75] I'm 'bout to take you to the top love
[03:56.46] Hip-Hop, word up, to the top
[03:58.46] Hip-Hop, check it out
[04:00.55] It's like that, what? And it sounds alright
[04:02.96] Hey, cause you the love of my life
[04:05.12] I'm 'bout to take you to the to the to the
[04:06.59] To the to the to the to the
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[04:08.35] To the to the to the to the, check it out
[04:10.94] What? Yeah, and it sounds so nice
[04:13.48] Hip-Hop, you the love of my life
[04:15.33] 'Bout to take you to the top love
[04:17.42] Hip-Hop to the top Hip-Hop
[04:18.74] Fifth Dynamite, and it sounds alright
[04:20.60] Hey, cause you the love of my life
[04:23.48] I'm 'bout to take you to the to the to the
[04:24.27] To the to the to the to the
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[04:31.42] Ye-yeah-yo, yo, and it sounds so nice
[04:34.01] Hip-Hop, you the love of my life
[04:35.99] We 'bout to take you to the top love, hip-hop
[04:38.81] To the top
[04:40.43] Check it out, it's like, yeah, and it's sounds alright
[04:44.57] Hip-Hop, you the love of my life
[04:48.16] We
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