[00:00.000] 作曲 : Destiny Frasqueri/James Richardson III
[00:10.988]A is for the apple
[00:12.276]Take a bite and spit it out
[00:13.448]B is for bodega
[00:14.759]Eating on your mama couch
[00:16.380]Low bazooka with a Puerto-Rican chula
[00:19.063]Says she working in the city and she getting moolah
[00:21.674]C is for the crib
[00:22.667]The cats that call you catch
[00:24.481]CBGB's babies sneaking blondie through the back
[00:27.247]D is for the downtown kids that's hittin' licks
[00:29.844]Skater boys in the park tryna **** some white chicks
[00:33.038]E is for the East Side
[00:34.270]Rough Ride, ride or die
[00:35.584]Motorbikes from every side
[00:37.040]Flying down the FDR
[00:38.634]Breaking dutches in the car
[00:41.259]G is for the ghetto girl
[00:42.584]And Rainbow clothes
[00:43.819]Baby hairs and well done toes
[00:45.784]Single mothers carry those
[00:46.923]Bummy sneakers
[00:47.555]What are those?
[00:48.388]Get in going golden go
[00:50.097]Hunts Point got the hottest hoes
[00:52.447]Inner city, tragic woes
[00:54.628]Splattered streets, the bloody holes
[00:56.464]Shorty dancing on the pole
[00:58.734]Casually it's casual b
[01:00.434]Bloody hands with the anatomy
[01:03.054]Jehovah witness at your door
[01:04.845]Acting like nobody home
[01:06.084]TV off, all alone
[01:07.335]Kick the door in, mama Jonesin' on the phone
[01:10.250]Bata and a doobie on, waiting on her tax return
[01:14.012]Low lives, lighting L's
[01:15.472]Pouring down for ones they love
[01:16.723]Tompkins Square, lower east
[01:18.426]Delancey for the deli meats
[01:19.887]You don't come for C or D
[01:22.363]I'm in Manhattan like I'm Woody Allen
[01:24.782]Jewish, Puerto-Rican and a little bit Italian
[01:27.904]Sitting on the steps outside the Natural History
[01:30.708]New York ******* City and I love the history
[01:33.761]Everything a melting pot
[01:35.001]Every block is ******* hot
[01:36.430]83rd the train stop
[01:37.781]Open cases, old as shorty braces
[01:40.566]Pick you up on warrant squad
[01:41.938]Now they running faces
[01:44.486]Pick you up by the park
[01:46.054]We was voguing by the pier
[01:47.382]Paris burning full of Queens
[01:48.787]Hit the Village every year
[01:50.002]Rollin' now to the rave
[01:51.501]Village Voice, six page
[01:52.883]I was diving off the stage
[01:54.555]Going now, every day
[01:55.827]Stickball in the summer, you know it's summertime
[01:58.141]Schomburg, eating soul food, singing Doo-Wop every night
[02:01.079]Subway trains goin' by
[02:02.611]Squad is sittin' St. Marks
[02:04.043]Shooting up in Tompkins park
[02:05.331]Know it's dirty after dark
[02:06.721]Tunnels taking turns
[02:07.991]Playing tag on the curb
[02:09.116]Touchin' on some titties
[02:10.593]Taking change out your purse
[02:12.072]Undercover agents I can spot them all away
[02:14.588]Yo, I hate the ******* cops
[02:15.872]NYPD get away
[02:17.630]Underground are MTA
[02:18.879]Close my eyes and ride the train
[02:20.215]Back and forth on everyday
[02:21.459]Anywhere, anyway
[02:22.878]Xerox copied Zines stapled onto poser trees
[02:25.810]Got a show, come and see
[02:27.402]New York is the place to be
[02:28.757]Here you go and live your dreams
[02:31.440]Livin' in the city you can't be a xenophobe
[02:34.112]This the melting pot, and the soup is never cold
[02:36.752]Young lords, young lords
[02:38.248]They live inside of me
[02:39.424]I got a problem B
[02:40.809]With white supremacy
[02:42.291]Rollin' through my zipcode
[02:43.862]One double zero two nine
[02:45.536]ABC's of New York, and I'll be doing fine