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Erykah Badu, well-known American R&B songwriter and vocalist, has her share of hits. Among her best is “Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)”, released on August 20, 2002 on the album Sugar Brown.

As its title suggests Love of My Life is a tribute to the very genre it’s a part of: Hip-Hop. The song personifies Hip-Hop as a friendly influence on Badu (and rapper Common, who also performed in the song) who Badu keeps in touch with through his friend “Mike”, a reference to Badu’s microphone.
The song spent four weeks at number one on the Hot R&B chart, and won both a Soul Train Lady of Soul award and Grammy – Best R&B Song – for its accomplishments. Love of My Life was also featured in the 2002 film Brown Sugar, further entrenching its status as a song that personifies and glorifies the genre of Hip-Hop.
Here’s the music video for Erykah Badu’s Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop), with lyrics below:

Right here what we gon’ do is go back
Way back, oooh way back yeah

I met him when I was a
A little girl he gave
He gave me poetry
He was my first
But in my heart I knew I
Wasn’t the only one
Cause when the tables turned
He had to break

(Hook)
But whenever I got lonely
Or needed some advice
He gave me his shoulder
His words were very nice
But that is all that I need,
Cause now there is no other
My love is his and his is mine,
My friend became the

(Chorus)
Love of my life
You are my friend
Love of my life
I can depend
Love of my life
Without ya baby
Feels like a simple true love
Yeah oh [?] didn’t clear

(Common)
Uh freak freak y’all and ya don’t stop
Uh to the beat y’all and ya don’t stop
Uh freak freak

Or would it be that it was
All just so simple then
A teenage love but you say
He’s just a friend
He moved around and we kept
In touch through his friend Mike
The world was younger and we knew
We couldn’t rush

(Hook)

(Chorus)

Y’all know how I met her
We broke up and got back together
To get her back I had to sweat her (sweat her)
Thought she roll wit bad boys forever
In many ways them boys made her better
To grow I had to let her (let her)
She needed cheddar and I understood that (that)
Lookin’ for cheese that don’t make her a hood rat (rat)
In fact she’s a queen to me, her light beams on me
I love it when she sings to me
It’s like that and a

(Cuts trough last two lines)
(Love of my life)
Ooh you know you rock my world
(Love of my life)
And you be boy and I’ll be girl
(Love of my life)
And we don’t stop until the break of dawn
(Love of my life)
Ooh you know you rock my world
(Love of my life)
And you be boy and I’ll be girl
(Love of my life)
And we don’t stop until the break of oohhh