I Love It

## **I Love It**Single by Hilltop Hoods

"*Lovin' like you've never known*"
—Kim Wilde
"**I Love It**" is a song by Australian hip hop band Hilltop Hoods, featuring Sia. The single was released on 25 November 2011 and its radio debut occurred on 21 November 2011 on Australian youth radio station Triple J. "I Love It" is the first single from their album, *Drinking From the Sun* (released on 9 March 2012), and three different music videos were produced for it. The song is Hilltop Hoods' second highest-charting and biggest-selling single for the entirety of the group's career.

## Music videos

Three separate music videos were released for "I Love It", via the official Hilltop Hoods website.

The first, directed by Carl Allison and Nick Kozakis, opens with Suffa and MC Pressure burning their jumpers. Throughout the video they drive in a black two-door Chrysler Valiant hardtop, picking up hitchhikers along the way. Later it is revealed that they gag the hitchhikers and put them in the boot, only to bury them later. The video closes with the Hilltop Hoods again burning their jumpers, following such a crime.

The second video (Animal Logic Version), directed by Toby Grime of Animal Logic, features a young child creating a spinning diorama of the bands faces on a turntable. The band appear in the video as computer animations within this diorama.

The third video (Blue Tongue Version), directed by Nash Edgerton, features the band, along with two women, riding BMXs along a dirt path, carrying shovels. They dismount their bikes and climb through trees up a hill, arriving at a cliff looking out over a beach. In the distance, a mysterious light can be seen emitting from the sand on the beach. The video closes with MC Pressure digging the sand out in this place, revealing a bright light shining in his face.

## Certifications

 sales+streaming figures based on certification alone

## Lyrics

I'm wondering where the day went

The clouds have me shrouded in grey but

I'm still out pounding the pavement, word

Drowning the hurt by pounding rounds in brown paper

Founded a label now I'm drowning paperwork

But now the crew I'm down with found an escape from work

And I love it 'cause that what your hard work gets you

My heart bursts through my chest I'm rescued

So forget what the rest do

I'm blessed to do it with two of who are the best to do it

Do I love it?

Look at our goals

If we never stood in the cold we wouldn't evolve

Used to put my crooked foot in what I couldn't resolve

But took control now, hard work is good for my soul

And I love it, growing through life and stress

Knowing the fight is just half of self-imposing our righteousness

Contract owners and licenses, showbiz in lights we're just

Searching for that moment of pricelessness

B-Boys, I met you at the bus stop

We had nothing but the tuck shop

We had school ties, the sky and the hilltops

Now we're all grown up and it's still about Hip Hop

I love it, I love it

Five days deep in the booth, and spent Friday leaping through loops

Then spent the weekend sideways, seeking the truth

And I won't lie they keep me on my toes these days

But I won't lie, hey I beat 'em with the flow for days

'Cause I love it, a pen and pads like a red rag to a bull

I see red like Leningrad

Raising a crowd from a vacant lot's like, like how

Raising a brow on the face of God right? Right now

And I love it a life with no regret

No success without a price that owes a debt

I roll the dice and despite the road ahead

Hope that in a crisis I might just know the ledge

But I love it like take away beer

And a sunset to lay away our day-to-day fears

See haters under rates us but this status takes years

And it ain't where we're at; it's how we made our way here

B-Boys, I met you at the bus stop

We had nothing but the tuck shop

We had school ties, the sky and the hilltops

Now we're all grown up and it's still about Hip Hop

I love it, I love it

And we can be in a hotel, worst part of town and

Support act, we ain't half as loud but

Twice as nice you can ask the crowd then

We passing out in a departure lounge and

I love it, I hug the road like an old friend

Like the world won't revolve unless we're rolling on it

It holds them on it, it's soul melodic

And oh they want it and I love it

Been chasing the dream

Everyday a new place, new faces and scene

Living out a suitcase few breaks in between

There's been very few days I'd loose faith in my team

Got love far from home through the winter and summer

No matter how hard the road or the distance I cover

Even bitter when I'm missing my significant other

I wouldn't trade it for the world given another

'Cause I love it

B-Boys

B-Boys, I met you at the bus stop

I love it, I love it

We had nothing but the tuck shop

I love it, I love it

We had school ties, the sky and the hilltops

I love it, I love it

Now we're all grown up and it's still about Hip Hop

I love it, I love it

## References

1. ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/from-novelty-act-to-giants-20120726-22s1r.html