Hip Hop Saved My LifeThe CoolLyrics:\nDedicate dedicate\n[Lupe speaking]\nUh this one right here goes out\nTo my homie with the drink\nKnow what I mean\n\nHe said I right what I see\nWrite to make it right\nDon\'t like where I be\nI like to make it like\nThe sights on TV\nQuite the great life\nSo nice and easy\nSee now you can still die from that\nBut it\'s better than not being alive from straps\nAgreed\nA mead notebook and a Bic that click\nWhen it\'s pushed and a wack (echo) beat\nThat\'s a track that\'s weak\nThat he got last week\n\'cause everybody in the stu?\nWas like that\'s that heat\nA base heavy medly with a sample from the 70s\nWith a screwed up hook that went\nSTACK THAT CHEESE\nSomething something something\nSTACK THAT CHEESE\nMother sister cousin\nSTACK THAT CHEESE\nHe couldn\'t think of nothing\nSTACK THAT CHEESE\nHe turns down the beat writers block impedes\nCrying from the next room a baby in need\nOf some pampers and some food and a place to sleep\nThat plus a black Cadillac on D\'s\nIs what keep him on track to be a great MC\n\n[Chorus (Nikki Jean) 2x:]\n\nReps Northside so he rocks them braids\nEleven hundred friends on his myspace page\nStack that cheese got seven hundred plays\nProducer made him take it down\nSaid he had to pay\nOpen micchamp 2 weeks in a row\nEx dboy with a bboy flow\nGlow like Leroy you should see boy go\nGot a daddy serving life and a brother on The Row\nBest homie in the grave\nTatted up while in the cage\nMinutemaid got his momma work like a slave\nDown baby momma who he really had to honor\n\'cause she was his biggest fan\nEven let him use the Honda\nDrive up to Dallas went to open up for amateurs\nLet him keep her debit card\nSo he could put gas in it\nTold her when he get on\nHe\'s gonna take her to the gallery\nBuy up everything but the mannequins your dig\n\n[Chorus (Nikki Jean) 2x]\n\nHis man called said \"your time might be now\"\nThey played your freestlye over \"Wipe me down\"\nThey played it two times\nSaid it might be crowned\nAs the best thing out the H-TOWN in a while\nHe picked up his son with a great big smile\nRapped every single word to the newborn child\nThen he put \'em down and went back to the kitchen\nPut onanother beat and got back to the mission\nOf get his momma out the hood\nPut her somewhere in the woods\nKeep his lady looking good\nHave her rolling like she should\nShow his homies it\'s a way\nOther than that flipping Yay\nBail his homie outta jail\nPut a lawyer on his case\nThrow a concert for the schoolShow this that\'s it cool\nThrow some candy on the cadi\nChuck the duece and act a fool\nMan it feels good when it happens like that\nTwo days from goin back to selling crack, yes sir\n\n[Chorus (Nikki Jean) 2x]\n\nHip hope has saved my life [4X] Cool, Fiasco, Hip, hip-hop, Hop, Life, Lupe, My, rap, Saved, The