streets of new york (city life)

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nasty

yeah

yeah

hey yo black it's time again

yeah

yeah

come here

yeah

yeah

hey yo black it's time

if you knew my streets

you would know all everybody talk about is who got beef

who snitchin

who told police

who came home

who still gone

who restin in peace

now they killin over music money

not drugs

rap replaced it

cause thugs with no brains got no patience

new jacks i pistol whip 'em with the funky rhythm i be kickin

musician and flatten composition

a pain

i'm like saddam hussein

still alive lookin at his dead children's burnt remains

i burnt the game

learnt you lames a new lesson

your crew's soft man

ya'll need some new weapons

the p's breathe warriorz and skullies and timmies

around mixed

spics

niggaz and giddies

from my ghetto kings in deep thought we don't blink

but don't think we wastin our time

it's a new york state of mind

new york

new york

new york

new york city

whoa oh

new york

new york

new york

new york city

baby

it's like a jungle

out here

so much struggle

out here

and my dream's still unphased

greed still the cousin of death

always feels like always somethin farther time

in the streets of new york

all i see is street homes

and who it's holdin

our people

only comforts the brain

it's like i'm going insane

the revolution has to start

don't waste no time

in the streets of new york

c'mon

new york

new york

new york

new york oh

state of mind

new york

new york

new york

new york oh

state of crime

new york

new york

new york

new york oh

big dreams

new york

new york

new york

new york oh

big schemes

oh

break the game

just ain't the same

baby loves and girls with no shame

can't get away

epidemic plague

every hood in every state

don't have no reasons cause relieve is hard to find

in the streets of new york -

i'm from the home of a million legends and trend settin

a lot of footsteps to follow

i've been steppin

mind stressin tryin to find a record crime shreddin

time precious

i ain't have rest since nine eleven

i live fast

hustle like today is my last

i get cash

the struggle's like a day on the ave. crack bein raw

gats squeezin off

manhattan squeezin off

from cats who tease with war

the eve of the apocalypse

evil keep movin politics

every block is at risk

the metropolitan metropolis

the opposite of liza minelli and frank sinatra

alicia keys

nas and ra the gangsta's opera

so new york city walk with me

talk gritty

it's up to us new york it's our city

here the man come with the anthem

hands up

it's time the thrill is back new york

let's stand up

oh yeah

crucial keys

your god rakim allah

new york city

nasty nas

a. keys

yeah

c'mon