New York
演唱：RakimIf you was born in new york city
let me say you
You know that
I was born in new york city
Aiyyo once upon a rhyme
where the scenery sets you see stress
Streets a matter of life
and death no regrets
Life's a test strife wit special effects
Neighbourhood's full of reps cities are projects
Where the young cadets
get stripes from the vets
And comrades quest to
be the next to finess
Collect debts and select bets
with death threats
Object-chedder better your total net
Where trends are set from
ways to express the outfits
Friends get wet tryin' to make ends connect
Avenues to check boulevards to sweat
The smell of gunsmoke more
common than cigarettes
We got clicks for wreck
We like pits for pets
We got giants and jets the knicks
yanks 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
Brookly
Ya out there
Aiyyo we 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 notch
this 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 shot
pollitic with thick plots
And eh carnegie 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 hop check 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
Aiyo we got five bouroughs of ghettos
With amny places to meet you
get lost in city streets
The city that never sleeps
Mecca medina the population increase
The desert and the oasis
new york the 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 peeps with
they own masterpiece
The crafts elite we 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-boys
breakdancing breakbeats
And it'll never cease and on that note
We say peace
let me say you
You know that
I was born in new york city
Aiyyo once upon a rhyme
where the scenery sets you see stress
Streets a matter of life
and death no regrets
Life's a test strife wit special effects
Neighbourhood's full of reps cities are projects
Where the young cadets
get stripes from the vets
And comrades quest to
be the next to finess
Collect debts and select bets
with death threats
Object-chedder better your total net
Where trends are set from
ways to express the outfits
Friends get wet tryin' to make ends connect
Avenues to check boulevards to sweat
The smell of gunsmoke more
common than cigarettes
We got clicks for wreck
We like pits for pets
We got giants and jets the knicks
yanks 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
Brookly
Ya out there
Aiyyo we 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 notch
this 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 shot
pollitic with thick plots
And eh carnegie 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 hop check 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
Aiyo we got five bouroughs of ghettos
With amny places to meet you
get lost in city streets
The city that never sleeps
Mecca medina the population increase
The desert and the oasis
new york the 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 peeps with
they own masterpiece
The crafts elite we 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-boys
breakdancing breakbeats
And it'll never cease and on that note
We say peace