The Hop Lyrics

[Intro: Q-Tip]
Yeah, move your body, inside the party
We 'bout to bring it to you kid, like we never ever did
My nigga Al G in it, my nigga Shaheed in it
We got the girl Kristine in it, got my man Big G in it

[Verse 1: Q-Tip]
A-yo, inside the ghetto or in a sunny meadow
I'ma make you move, whether woman or fellow

Yo, I got the medals in the Warfield of respect
Like an ill porno, make ya body get wet
Just a ghetto child trying to live a straight and narrow
Hoping that my shit will pierce your dome like an arrow
I'm sure it will, especially if it's God's will
MC's be ready to die 'cause I'ma kill
All your negative feelings standing on two feet
While I make the hotties move to the hip-hop beat

You know it's realer killer, realer than you can imagine
Using every source of pain in my range to make it happen
If I make it happen, that means I'm making motion
And I'm doing my thing causing an ill commotion
Everybody do the hop, make it smooth like lotion
I lay up in the piece on a incognotion

[Chorus: Q-Tip]
You gotta do the hop, you move to the beat, you don't stop
Now everybody here, you do the hop
You going up to cop, Uptown for a brick, don't stop
You gotta come back and do the hop
Yo, fuck the cops, you gotta come back and do the hop
Move 'til your body won't stop
You gotta do the hop, non-stop motion, non-stop
You gotta come back and do the, do the...
[Verse 2: Phife Dawg]
You see you, your career is done like Johnny Carson's
Get me vexed, I do like Left Eye, start an arson
Now that I got that out my system
Watch me stab up the track as if my name was OJ Simpson
I packs it in like Van Halen
I work for mine, you, you're freeloading like Kato Kaelin
I'm representing with my crew
Mess around, bite my rhymes, I'll beat that ass with my shoe
C'mon, you know I'm crazy nice
Brothers can't deal with the shorty named Phife
You must be mad in the head
I bust his ass and leave 'im bloodclaat for dead
Niggas sound like Das EFX
If it ain't Das EFX then they sounding like Meth
You might as well do Megadeth
Y'all punk MCs better save your freaking breath
You's a corny motherfucker
You must be high smoking dust with Chris Tucker
Y'all faggot asses don't want this
I pull more peeps than the peeps at the premier of Pocohantas
Word is bond I am the baddest
And all you honeys out there, word is bond, you know my status
So come and pull your panties down
This ain't the Barnum Bailey show, I don't get down with the clowns
So why don't you and your friends get with me and my friends
But don't bring your ass by and you ain't got no ends
Word is bond, it don't stop
Just ease your mind, come along and do the hop
[Chorus: Q-Tip]
You gotta do the hop, you move to the beat, you don't stop
Come on everybody, do the hop
Even if you cop, you gotta come back and do the hop
You move to the beat, you don't stop
You smoking jump rocks, you gotta just stop and do the hop
Then you come back and do the hop
You know we don't stop, we on the ghetto prize on the top
You know we come back and do the hop
Shorties in the place, all the shorty rocks, do the hop
You gotta come back and do the hop
We never go on pop, you know we come back, we do the hop
This is how it is, we do the hop
You move to the beat, then come on everybody, don't...

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Genius Annotation

On “The Hop,” Q-Tip and Phife Dawg rock a steady, cool and collective flow, touching on classic Tribe themes like the struggles of poverty and racism and of course, the beauty of hip hop itself. It also features one of Phife’s most hard-hitting verses.

Rashad Smith puts down a smooth and woozy beat by manipulating a jazz sample from Henry Franklin, while Maseo overlays the scratches on the track. Notably, this is the only track on Beats, Rhymes, & Life to lack production credits from the The Ummah entirely, and one of a very small handful of Tribe tracks to not have any production contributions from either Ali Shaheed or Q-Tip.

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What songs are sampled for the beat on “The Hop”?
Genius Answer

The primary jazzy sample on the beat was taken from Henry Franklin’s 1974 song “Soft Spirit”:

Maseo scratches the vocal sample “get down” from funk group Thunder and Lightning’s 1974 song “Bumpin’ Bus Stop”:

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