Rakim - New York lyrics
[from the movie _wildstyle_
If you was born in new york city let me hear say "you know that"!
You know that
Aiyyoonce upon a rhyme where the scenery setsyou see stress
Streets a matter of life and deathno regrets
Life's a teststrifewit special effects
Neighbourhood's full of repscities are projects
Where the young cadets get stripes from the vets
And comrades quest to be the nextto finess
Collect debts and select bets with death threats
Object - chedderbetter your total net
Where trends are set from ways to express the outfits
Friends get wet tryin' to make ends connect
Avenues to checkboulevards to sweat
The smell of gunsmoke more common than cigarettes
We got clicks for wreck
We like pits for pets
We got giants and jetsthe knicksyanks and mets
We like much respect and sex extra wet
And high-tech dialect you ain't catch yet
(the bronx
Ya out there?
No doubt
Brooklyn
Ya out there)
[rakim]
Aiyyowe got blocks and glocks with
Big shots with big knots and big props
Yo this is where the bullshit stops
Where herbs get got
If you snitch you get shot
We get down and leave the town in a state of shock
We got dangerous hang out spots and slick cops
Place called riker's island where kids get locked
A lotta gear to rock with blocks of clothes shops
Styles are top notchthis is the place to buy
So bust the box the radio station is hot
Ease your mind staring at skylines from rooftops
Flip scripts for chips
And new whips of the lot
Quick to call a shotpollitic with thick plots
And ehcarnegie niggers a see what we got
To make sure the core of the big apple don't rot
Where seeings believing we be achieving a lot
Since disc jocks created hip hopcheck it out!
(queens
Ya out there?
No doubt
Manhatten
No doubt
New york city
Staten island
New york new york
Long island
New york
Ya out there)
[rakim]
Aiyowe got five bouroughs of ghettos
With amny places to meetyou get lost in city streets
The city that never sleeps
Mecca ? medina the population increase
The desert and the oasisnew yorkthe far east
With gods and sheiks
Pretty amazons for weeks
Player dons that fleece the family's black sheep
Icons that teach that we all act unique
We got stats to reach so we all have to eat
A mass of peepswith they own masterpiece
The crafts elitewe going past the beat
The latest technique no other place get as deep
Who parks release some of the worlds greatest athletes
Djs and mcs and graffiti artistes
Who use walls and subway trains for marquees
We go back to b-boysbreakdancingbreakbeats
And it'll never cease and on that note
We say peace
