Hip hop lives chords by
Krs-one

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Key: E minor

Verse 1
Em Em 
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I come back, every year I get newer
I'm the dust on the moon,
B B 2
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I'm the trash in the sewer
Em Em 
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Let's go, I come back,
every year I get brighter
If you thinkin' hip hop is alive,
B B 2
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hold up your lighter

Verse 2
Em Em 
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Let's go, I come back,
every year I'm expandin'
Talkin' to developers about this
B B 2
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city we plannin', c'mon
Em Em 
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I come back through any endeavor
B B 2
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This is hip hop, we gon? last forever

Verse 3
Em Em 
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Hip means to know,
it's a form of intelligence
To be hip is to be update and relevant
Hop is a form of movement
Bm Bm 2
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You can't just observe a hop,
Em Em 
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B B 2
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you gotta hop up and do it

Verse 4
Em Em 
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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
B B 2
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sellin? the music

Verse 5
Em Em 
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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 bee born again,
it's a fact

Verse 6
Em Em 
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I come back, every
year I'm the strongest
KRS- One, Marley Marl, yup,
B B 2
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we last the longest
Em Em 
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Let's go, I come back ?cause
I'm not in the physical
G G 
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B B 2
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I create myself, man, I live in the spiritual

Verse 7
Em Em 
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I come back through the cycles of life
If you been here once you
gon? be here twice
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Em Em 
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So I tell you,
I come back ?cause you must learn too
B B 2
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Hip hop culture is eternal

Verse 8
B B 2
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Em Em 
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Hip hop, her infinite power
Helpin' oppressed people,
B B 2
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we are unique and unequaled
Em Em 
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Hip hop, holy integrated people
B B 2
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Havin' omnipresent power,
G G 
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Em Em 
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the watchman's in the tower of

Verse 9
Em Em 
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Hip hop, hydrogen iodine
phosphorous
Hydrogen oxygen phosphorous,
that's called
Hip hop, the response
of cosmic consciousness
B B 2
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To our condition as hip hop

Verse 10
Em Em 
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We gotta think about the
children we bringin' up
When hip and hop means
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intelligence springin' up
Em Em 
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We singin' what? Sickness,
hatred, ignorance and poverty
Or health, love,
B B 2
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awareness and health, follow me

Verse 11
Em Em 
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I come back, every year I get newer
I'm the dust on the moon,
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Em Em 
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I'm the trash in the sewer, that's right
I come back, every year I get brighter
If you think hip hop is alive hold
B B 2
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Em Em 
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up your lighter, let's go

Verse 12
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I come back, every
year I'm expandin'
Talkin' to developers about this
B B 2
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Em Em 
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city we plannin'
I come back through any endeavor
B B 2
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Em Em 
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This hip hop we gon? last forever

Verse 13

We will be here forever

We will still be here forever

Get what I'm sayin' forever

Marley

Verse 14
Em Em 
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I come back, every year I get newer
B B 2
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That's that, that's that
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I come back, every year I get newer
B B 2
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That's that, that's that

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