[00:20.20]This is that, Rikers Island, not slipping rap flows
[00:23.01]For them box bitten bing monsters, sniffin' that blow
[00:25.44]Block huggers know the style, triple that dough
[00:28.09]Forty cal. for them cock suckers, sit ‘em back slow
[00:30.60]What y'all know about coke pies, give 'em that low
[00:33.03]I’m Malcolm before the bow tie, the simple cash flow
[00:35.39]Rap NY, no lie, my side is Tabasco, so hot
[00:38.16]Crooked cops are searching your asshole, it's the drop
[00:41.33]That freeze n!ggas right where they stand for the gwap
[00:43.56]n!ggas'll play Pac and pop at they man, it don't stop
[00:46.27]We up top, but we locked and landing
[00:48.09]He roadblock, he flow shots, get ghost and scram
[00:50.79]Gingerbread n!ggas on the run from feds
[00:53.12]sh!t is sick, pretty chicks'll put a gun to ya head
[00:55.73]Never a vic', either think quick or end up dead
[00:58.27]Cuz when we flip, what's left to be said? New York
[01:02.15]New York, New York, New York
[01:04.30]New York, New York
[01:05.71]Number One
[01:06.46]New York, New York
[01:07.80]Keep it real I get ill
[01:08.76]New York, New York
[01:09.42]Number one
[01:10.30]New York, New York
[01:11.13]The city I gotta get in
[01:21.45]You know the town stupid, this is all authentic ground
[01:23.43]You can get poked, grabbed and choked, then shot up, for product
[01:26.04]Bank holders stay in the lab, too many dumb n!ggas is scheming
[01:29.23]You can get murked up in the cab
[01:31.42]Shout out to n!ggas that be jerking tags, rollin' in Jags
[01:34.34]Good boy leathers, hood boys'll blast you
[01:36.72]n!ggas that carry ones and hit grass
[01:38.82]And love hip hop, the sh!t that bring money outta ziplocs
[01:41.81]Protect your dome, I'm warning you, what harm I do to the kid
[01:45.05]I have you on the floor with ya armor loose
[01:47.06]Break the raw down and sign truces
[01:49.53]Then switch the next muthafcukin' date, fcuk all excuses
[01:51.95]When you see me it's real, I'm just a natural born hustler
[01:55.02]The castle where they wrap you in plastic, duke
[01:57.03]So every soldier that's armed, remind your general
[01:59.44]It's critical, you might stay a night, if you presentable
[02:02.06]New York, New York
[02:04.50]Number One
[02:06.57]New York, New York
[02:07.14]Keep it real I get ill
[02:09.20]New York, New York
[02:09.66]Number one
[02:10.70]New York, New York
[02:11.22]The city I gotta get in
[02:11.76]New York, New York
[02:14.24]Number One
[02:15.34]New York, New York
[02:16.49]Keep it real I get ill
[02:17.74]New York, New York
[02:19.38]Number one
[02:20.17]New York, New York
[02:20.87]The city I gotta get in
[02:22.10]Yo, we was raised in the dead arm district
[02:24.33]Before guns was called biscuits, Stapleton was on that hood sh!t
[02:27.26]Live from the New York borough, keeping it thorough
[02:30.57]Bunch of snakes in the grass, stay creepin' like squirrels
[02:32.48]Cuz a snitch gon' crack that nut, don't give a fk
[02:34.75]Did ten hours long and try to wrap us up
[02:37.25]He dry snitching, post up in the whip with a fly wisdom
[02:40.04]Hopped out to get a dutch, but he left with his wig splitten
[02:42.54]We from New York, my city never sleeps (No)
[02:44.61]We runnin' with a hundred heats
[02:45.97]When beef pop off, we ain't the one to speak
[02:47.54]Dressed in all black, driving sixteen hearses
[02:50.09]With sixteen n!ggas, dropping sixteen verses
[02:51.87]Big faces, bolgin' outta big green purses
[02:55.13]Stuck ya man for his vegi's and his lame ass circus
[02:57.71]So I dare n!ggas act up, y'all n!ggas act up
[03:00.58]Now like cars in reverse, y'all better back up
[03:03.05]New York, New York
[03:04.85]Number One
[03:06.45]New York, New York
[03:07.34]Keep it real I get ill
[03:08.55]New York, New York
[03:10.01]Number one
[03:11.08]New York, New York
[03:11.74]The city I gotta get in
[03:12.80]New York, New York
[03:14.90]Number One
[03:16.01]New York, New York
[03:17.39]Keep it real I get ill
[03:18.55]New York, New York
[03:19.76]Number one
[03:21.15]New York, New York
[03:22.47]The city I gotta get in
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