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[Rock Shabazz:] (And you say New York City) (yeah!) (And you say New York City) (yeah!) (New York, New York) (Watch out! We run New York) (Hook) In Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten, Manhattan Truck Jewels and big gats sparkin New York New York, land of the crime inner cities Longshots always on the grind, If You with me Load 'em up (load 'em up) Spit 'em out (Spit 'em out) Round 'em up (Round 'em up) Buck 'em down (Buck 'em down) Throw 'em up (Throw 'em up) Shut 'em down (Shut 'em down) Break 'em up, Break 'em down, Roll 'em up, Roll 'em out [Crayon:] Longshots New York City If you riding wit me Collide with police, there's drugs and homicide in the streets Live from inside of the beast the scribe writer reporting Yo there's drama in the streets adolescents having abortions Proceed with caution down these boulevards and avenues SongtexteNiggaz share the same attribute of ice grillin attitudes D's watchin all the drugs sales and robberies Reason being the ghetto's America's highest commodity Blood splattered on the playground cause niggaz spray rounds Thug niggaz with the 4-pound'll back that ass down Murder for money and status, our bitches the baddest Got fiends feeding their habits, D's looking at us through cameras New York New York Soldiers stay ready for war WE THE TRENDSETTERS fuck what y'all was doing before! Alpha and omega of rap right here Newcomers guard your grill and watch your back 'Cause we never fight fair in [Hook:] In Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten, Manhattan Truck Jewels and big gats sparkin New York New York, land of the crime inner cities Longshots always on the grind, If You with me Load 'em up (load 'em up) Spit 'em out (Spit 'em out) Round 'em up (Round 'em up) Buck 'em down (Buck 'em down) Throw 'em up (Throw 'em up) Shut 'em down (Shut 'em down) Break 'em up, Break 'em down, Roll 'em up, Roll 'em out [Rock Shabazz:] During nightime, killers clap guns and blast slugs Collapsed lung and mad blood if you catch one In the mix of action, niggaz act dumb on spiced rhum And light blunts, hearing fight drums They must want drama, driving past the block To blast the glock, years later you still feel the aftershock We dash past the cops, blast open the Masterlock Open the safe, grab a box and bag the crops Pop the jeep trunk, gauge heat bumps Get your meat lumped, stone tied to your feet dumped In the Hudson, Colt 19 guns is bustin You either assaulter or victim, what's your function? Beef in the streets, they creep at least five deep Streets? Had it up to here like Queen Latif(ah) Street athletes, handle hammers and throw javelins to abdomens Hundred yard dashes to sounds of sirens Long streaks of violence, short periods of peace Everybody grab they heat we got beef in the streets! Longshot-niggaz defecate over beats All this Black on Black bullshit nigga it gotta cease [Hook] [Crayon:] Crime in the city Find in the city Mad dimes in the city Do time for the city Rhyme for the city Crime Inner-cities Longshots always on the grind, is you with me? [Rock Shabazz:] Live from New York, It's saturday night World famous skyline, big city with bright lights In Ghetto Gotham, the beast is clockin' The streets is watchin', the people talkin' The fiends is hawkin', the rapists stalkin' The streets is darkened, the pits is barkin' The glocks is sparkin', plus killers will air the block out With the blacka blacka Dig your back out With the glock a, copper will take some Blacks out Plus Crayon and Rock are, guaranteed to change Hip-Hop Like Chuck and Flav with the clock Shit be dope like coke in Ziplocs Strong Island, Yonkers, Albany and company New Rochelle, Mount Vern(on), Troy, Schenectady Time travel back to '94 if you with me New York state of mind hit ya, you've just entered [Hook] [Crayon:] Crime in the city Find in the city Mad dimes in the city Do time for the city Rhyme for the city Crime Inner-cities Longshots always on the grind, is you with me? Aus Songtexte Mania