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Yeah |
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Yeah, I'm out that Brooklyn |
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Now I'm down in Tribeca |
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Right next to DeNiro |
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But I’ll be hood forever |
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I’m the new Sinatra |
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And since I made it here |
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I can make it anywhere |
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Yeah, they love me everywhere |
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I used to cop in Harlem |
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Hola my Dominicanos |
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Right there up on Broadway |
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Brought me back to that McDonalds |
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Took it to my stash spot |
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560 State street |
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Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whipping pastry |
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Cruising down 8th street |
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Off-white Lexus |
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Driving so slow but BK is from Texas |
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Me I’m out that Bed-Stuy |
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Home of that boy Biggie |
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Now I live on Billboard |
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And I brought my boys with me |
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Say what up to Ty Ty, still sipping mai tais |
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Sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives |
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Nigga I be Spiked out, I can trip a referee |
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Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from |
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New York |
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Concrete jungle where dreams are made of |
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There's nothing you can’t do |
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Now you’re in New York |
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These streets will make you feel brand new |
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Big lights will inspire you |
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Let's hear it for New York |
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Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game |
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Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can |
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You should know I bleed Blue, but I ain't a Crip, though |
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But I got a gang of niggas walking with my clique though |
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Welcome to the melting pot |
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Corners where we selling rocks |
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Afrika Bambaataa shit |
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Home of the hip-hop |
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Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back |
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For foreigners it ain't fair, they act like they forgot how to add |
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8 million stories out there in the naked |
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City, it's a pity half of y’all won’t make it |
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Me I gotta plug Special Ed "I Got It Made" |
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If Jeezy's paying LeBron, I’m paying Dwyane Wade |
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3 dice Cee-lo, 3 card Monte |
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Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley |
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Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade |
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Long live the king yo |
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I’m from the Empire State, that's: |
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New York |
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Concrete jungle where dreams are made of |
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There's nothing you can’t do |
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Now you’re in New York |
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These streets will make you feel brand new |
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Big lights will inspire you |
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Let's hear it for New York |
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Lights is blinding |
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Girls need blinders |
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So they can step out of bounds quick |
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The side lines is lined with casualties |
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Who sip the life casually, then gradually become worse |
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Don’t bite the apple, Eve |
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Caught up in the in-crowd |
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Now you're in-style |
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And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out |
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The city of sin is a pity on a whim |
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Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with 'em |
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Mommy took a bus trip and now she got her bust out |
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Everybody ride her, just like a bus route |
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"Hail Mary" to the city, you're a virgin |
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And Jesus can’t save you, life starts when the church ends |
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Came here for school, graduated to the high life |
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Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight |
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MDMA got you feeling like a champion |
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The city never sleeps, better slip you a Ambien |
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New York |
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Concrete jungle where dreams are made of |
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There's nothing you can’t do |
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Now you’re in New York |
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These streets will make you feel brand new |
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Big lights will inspire you |
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Let's hear it for New York |
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One hand in the air for the big city |
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Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty |
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No place in the world that can compare |
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Put your lighters in the air, everybody say "yea!" |
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New York |
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Concrete jungle where dreams are made of |
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There's nothing you can’t do |
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Now you’re in New York |
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These streets will make you feel brand new |
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Big lights will inspire you |
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Let's hear it for New York |
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