First Love - Intellectual

[Verse Napoleon Da Legend]

I used to wanna cop the flyest sneakers

Couldn't afford em

Hooping it up, at the playground bumping Notorious

Excited for every new release would cop the tapes

Mr White's gym we used to play there

Afterwards we had to mop the place

Pops would come home from work same night had to work again

Trying to flirt with my first crush was still a virgin then

Puberty hit that's when my voice change

Got my first cellphone back then we would personalize our voice mail

We would practice rapping over singles we would cop

Rushed to the movies when that terminator sequel dropped

Had a reputation for being a kid who eats a lot

Taping radio shows playing CL Smooth and Pete Rock

The feel was there all in the music, it would inhabit me

To me felt like the greatest thing yo it had to be

Raised me up from a boy to a man

Like a friend never felt alone ever again

That's Hip-Hop

I love Hip-Hop

I couldn't live without my hip-hop

I be living for this hiphop

I would study rap more than my homework sometimes would cheat on tests

But basketball and on microphone, I had to be the best

Conflicted, between living the life of a square?

Or be an outcast hit the stage despite of my fears

Didn't realize my soul already made the choice for me

Spirit guides, foresaw me win after the war stories

And the stormy weather was prime material for a story teller and

Molded my destiny way better than any fortune teller

As much a hustler as a rapper that was part of me

These devils could never rob me of what flows inside my arteries

The drum kit, turned this introvert into a virtuoso

Confidence of my greatness I had the nerve to know so

Perfect logo on my chest heading towards success

Showing strength for survival like the Rebels out in Port-au-Prince

Type shit you only understand if you live it

They trying to be part of the system I'm a champion against it

And that's hiphop

I love Hip-Hop

I can't live without my Hip-Hop

Yours truly I be living for this Hip-Hop