Before Hip Hop Lyrics – Ice Cube

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[Intro: Ice Cube & Robert Townsend]
You killed it my brother
My main man
I loved it, this dude, baby
I want revenge, yeah
Ah, I want revenge, yeah
He was my only brother (Yeah, s*it)
He was like my main man
I loved it-I loved it, my brother

[Chorus: Ice Cube]
Before hip-hop, n!ggas got shot

Before hip-hop, n!ggas smoked rocks
Before hip-hop, my uncle had a drop
Before hip-hop, homies stood on the block
Before hip-hop, people smoked weed
Before hip-hop, I’ll get you what you need
Before hip-hop, pimping was gone
Before hip-hop, b!tches was on

[Verse 1: Ice Cube]
My style is hostile, your style is docile
I pull them Glock’s out
Forgot to box out
I grab the rebound
I claim to be down
The guppy, he drown
Cause homies decline
My pronouns will throw rounds
Heartbeats will slowed down, yeah
Where’s the showdown?
Your hood is a ghost town
I’m a Ghostbuster, hit you with the whole cluster
Turn you into muster, General Custer
Chief Blackfoot, kick a black rock
‘Cause somehow they responsible for crack rock
Somehow they wanna blame it on hip-hop

Before I could talk, they used to crip walk
They used to roll dice
They used to flash ice
Fu*k with a chick, she’ll cut your ass twice
They used to pay the price
They used to go to jail
Hip-hop ain’t the reason why we catching him

[Chorus: Ice Cube]
Before hip-hop, girls got knocked
Before hip-hop, that pu*sy used to pop
Before hip-hop, they was on molly
Before hip-hop, n!ggas caught a body

[Interlude: Ice Cube & Robert Townsend]
I loved it here (Hm, s*it)
And-and he was my only brother (Yeah, right)
He was like my main man
I loved it-I loved it

[Verse 2: Ice Cube]
They tell you and me it was lots of unity in the black community
That s*it is lunacy
They tried to ruin me, got me for my jewelry
What they did to me, police got immunity
Early 70s got him for his leather piece
Khakis hella creased, it was lots of jealousy
Boys’ bathroom was like a platoon
The girls’ bathroom was like a saloon
Squabbles all year, September to June
N!ggas on weed, water and shrooms
N!ggas OD’d, had gangs and goons
Down the center coon (Soon), straight to the moon
N!ggas would holler “Give me a dollar, n!gga”
He wanted more than a dollar, didn’t take no scholar
Yeah, motherfu*kers had the Chevy Impala
And they crashed out like, fu*k you, your honor (Fu*k you, your honor)
It all happened before they start rapping
If they say I’m lying, motherfu*kers is capping
N!ggas be crying like they was the captain
But I don’t give a fu*k, hand that b!tch a napkin

[Bridge: Ice Cube]
They mad at the mirror, but the mirror don’t lie
Before hip-hop, it was a drive-by
Before hip-hop, n!ggas used to die
Before hip-hop, mamas used to cry
They mad at the mirror, but the mirror don’t lie
Before hip-hop, it was a drive-by
Before hip-hop, n!ggas used to die
Before hip-hop, mamas used to cry

[Chorus: Ice Cube & Robert Townsend]
(Now-now-now listen)
Before hip-hop (Now-now listen)
Before hip-hop (Now-now-now listen), yeah
Before hip-hop (Now-now listen)

[Bridge: Ice Cube & Robert Townsend]
They mad at the mirror, but the mirror don’t lie
Before hip-hop, it was a drive-by
Before hip-hop, n!ggas used to die
Before hip-hop, mamas used to cry
(Now-now listen)