[Chorus: Dion] <br />Let me see where I started at (Uh) <br />Hood cats are part of where it started at <br />We hustle hard to keep the sharks fed <br />For the score go to war like a jarhead <br />(***We gonna take you all on a little trip to New York City!) <br />(*With the first hello) <br /><br />[Verse 1: Jadakiss] <br />Uh! Got alot of heart, best part is I'm clever too <br />Hand skills, hard work, gun play whatever duke <br />Tellin' in is not nice, lot of niggaz got life <br />Everything is good in my bank except cop dice <br />Harlems, Jordans, the hood can't afford them <br />So they bootleg them now everybody sport them <br />Dorms, cells, packages, mail <br />Warrants, bails, everything's real now <br /><br />[Chorus: Dion] <br /><br />[Verse 2: Papoose] <br />All I got is my word and my nuts, man I got Brooklyn in my balls <br />So you could see Bed-Stuy if you lookin in my draws <br />Always talkin bout you ballin, look you wanna ball <br />Word on the streets, niggaz ready to put you on the wall <br />You just a leg shooter, you aim your gun low <br />I shoot my tek high I keep a Hi-Tek like the producer <br />Pap ripped the Desi, till that clip is empty <br />Man I'll have black buried in the cemetary <br />Go 'head get your fetti, but you better tell holmes <br />Messin with me will get black buried like a cell phone <br />Punks pay dues not me I pay attention <br />Call it New York cause we keep reinventin <br /><br />[Chorus: Dion] <br /><br />[Verse 3: Talib Kweli] <br />Who flipped the vocabulary? Shadow my adversary buss 'em like a capilary <br />Roaches and rats on every corner when it's warmer but New York is used to that already <br />Manhattan built the cemetaries where the blacks is buried <br />I take the Staten Ferry I walk to Broadway <br />I talk to chicks along the way with John Forte <br />Used to do this all day burnin in the project hallways <br />Discussin strategies in the court case <br />I rock the Northface cold like winter <br />I'm from Brooklyn like the D-Cep and low life niggaz word <br />Fuck the talking it's a New York thing <br />We aboard but, all things considered we all kings, what
