Hip Hop Lives (I Come Back)

[Chorus]

(I come back) Every year I get newer

I'm the dust on the Moon, I'm the trash in the sewer, let's go

(I come back) Every year I get brighter

If you thinking hip-hop is alive hold up your lighter, let's go

(I come back) Every year I'm expanding

Talking to developers about this city we planning, c'mon

(I come back) Through any endeavor

This is hip-hop, we gon' last forever

[Verse 1]

Hip means to know, it's a form of intelligence

To be hip is to be up-date and relevant

Hop is a form of movement

You can't just observe a hop, you gotta hop up and do it

Hip and hop is more than music

Hip is the knowledge, hop is the movement

Hip and hop is intelligent movement

Or relevant movement, we sellin' the music

So write this down on your black books and journals:

Hip-hop culture is eternal

Run and tell all your friends

An ancient civilization has been born again, it's a fact

[Chorus]

(I come back) Every year I'm the strongest

KRS-One, Marley Marl, yup, we last the longest, let's go

(I come back) 'Cause I'm not in the physical

I create myself, man, I live in the spiritual

(I come back) through the cycles of life

If you been here once you gone be here twice, so I tell you

(I come back) 'Cause you must learn too

Hip-hop culture is eternal

[Verse 2]

(Hip-hop) Her Infinite Power, Helping Oppressed People

We are unique and unequaled

(Hip-hop) Holy Integrated People, Having Omnipresent Power

The watchman's in the tower of (hip-hop)

Hydrogen Iodine Phosphorous, Hydrogen Oxygen Phosphorous

That's called (hip-hop)

The response of cosmic consciousness

To our condition as (hip-hop)

We gotta think about the children we bringing up

When hip and hop means intelligence springing up

We singing what, sickness, hatred, ignorance and poverty

Or health, love, awareness and wealth, follow me

[Chorus]

(I come back) Every year I get newer

I'm the dust on the Moon, I'm the trash in the sewer, let's go

(I come back) Every year I get brighter

If you thinking hip-hop is alive hold up your lighter, let's go

(I come back) Every year I'm expanding

Talking to developers about this city we planning, c'mon

(I come back) Through any endeavor

This is hip-hop, we gon' last forever

[Outro]

We will be here forever, we will still be here forever

Get what I'm saying, forever

Marley

(I come back)

Every year I get newer

That's that

That's that