My First Love

[Verse 1] With so much drama in the Q U B It’s kinda hard bein’ D O P E But I somehow, someway still come up With this funky ass shit like every single day I need hip-hop, told y’all it’s my first love The drum kicks and the snares from the gods above The words flow up like screams from a river Streams of the conscience, niggas can’t stop this Chillin’ on the block, this was manifested Cool Herc in the projects, spinnin’ records Wires in the light pole, b-boys sprayin’ out cold Paint on the train way before it was about dough I’m about soul, keep it in my mental Sent it thru a lyric, you digest it thru a smooth flow I’m ever so in trance by a rhythm A music soul child, all I do is just listen [Chorus] Lemme tell you bout my first love She was sent as a gift from the gods above Uh, this a story bout my first love She was sent as a gift from the gods above Lemme tell you bout my first love She was sent as a gift from the gods above Uh, this a story bout my first love She was sent as a gift from the gods above [Verse 2] Pac taught me that it ain’t easy Bout beats, rhymes and life I got a low end theory Word to Tribe, I’mma spit it with a native tongue Native from the borough, gonna rep it till my beat is done I need my heart beat, feel it in my cold sleep That boom bap, it just flows through me I try to fight it but I know where my heart resides On the rise, never lies, fluid to a fluent mind And I’m a poet, all my rhymes potent Beats is the potion to get ya’ll open Huh, and I’m expressin’ in my highest form Highest arms couldn’t get me down from the cloud I’m on Word to Hannibal King, he the doppest Told him bout this sample and then he got focused This fo’ Queens, whole NYC Hip-hop, one love from D O P E CHORUS: Lemme tell you bout my first love She was sent as a gift from the gods above Uh, this a story bout my first love She was sent as a gift from the gods above Lemme tell you bout my first love She was sent as a gift from the gods above Uh, this a story bout my first love She was sent as a gift from the guys above