Streets Of New York feat.Nas & Rakim

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 piece Now they killin over music money Not drugs rap replaced it cuz thugs with no brains got no patience New jacks I pistol whip em' with the funky rhythm I be kickin Musician Inflicting composition A pain I'm like Saddam Hussein Still alive looking at his dead children's burnt remains I burnt the game Learned you're lame A new lesson Your crew's soft man Y'all need some new weapons The P's breed warriors and Scullies and Timby's Around mics, spics, niggaz and guineas For my ghetto kings in deep thought We don't blink we can't think We wastin our time It's a NY state of mind NY NY NY NYC woa-ohh NY NY NY NYC Gritty It's like a jungle out here So much struggle out here And my dreams still unrest Sleeps the cousin of death Always feels like always against farther time On the streets of NY All I see is street hoes And bullet holes in my peoples Only crime fills the brain It's like I'm going insane The revolution has to start don't waste no time In the streets of NY-NY state of mind NY NY NY NY oh state of mind NY NY NY NY oh state of crime NY NY NY NY oh big dreams NY NY NY NY oh being seen All respect the game Just ain't the same Baby thugs and girls with no shame Can't get away-get away Epidemic plague Every hood in every state Don't have no reasons 'cause believe it's hard to find In the streets of NY NY state of mind In the streets of NY NY state of mind In the streets of NY NY state of mind In the streets of NY NY state of mind I'm from the home of a million legends And trend settin' A lot of footsteps to follow I been steppin' Mind stressin' Tryin' to find direction Crime spreadin' Time precious I ain't had rest since 9/11 I live fast Hustle like today is my last I get cash The struggle's like a day on the ave. Crack diem raw Gats squeezed and all Manhattan streets in awe From casualties to war The evil the apocolypse evil people more politics Every block is aristo, metropolitan, metropolis Opposite of Liza Minelli and Frank Sinatra Alicia Kkeys, Naz, and Ra wit' The gangstas opera So nyc walk wit' me talk gritty It's up to us ny its our city Here the man come with the anthem hands up Its time the thrill is back NY So stand up NY NY NY NYC woa-ohh NY NY NY NYC Gritty NY NY NY NYC woa-ohh NY NY NY NYC Gritty