Welcome To New York City

[00:04.46] Turn the motherfuckin' music up
[00:05.26] Just blaze man, you owe me, nigga
[00:10.33] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[00:16.94] Welcome to the Empire State, home of the World Trade
[00:23.04] Birthplace of Michael Jordan, home of Biggie Smalls
[00:29.63] Roc-A-Fella headquarters
[00:31.68] (Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City)
[00:32.49] Ladies an' gentlemen, Killa Cam, Young Hov
[00:35.81] Is definitely in the building, Brooklyn
[00:38.24] Harlem World, stand the fuck up
[00:42.90] (Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City)
[00:44.98] I'm a BK brawler, Marcy projects hallway loiterer
[00:48.37] Pure coke copper, get your order up
[00:51.67] I bring 'em to Baltimore in the Ford Explorer
[00:54.17] It's gonna cost you more if I gotta get 'em to Florida
[00:56.53] Rucker game attender with the Bent parked
[00:59.40] On the sidewalk with temp plates on the fender
[01:01.74] I ain't hard to find you, catch me frontin' center
[01:04.70] At the Knick game, big chain an' all my splendor
[01:07.62] Next to Spike an' be panned left to right
[01:10.34] I own Madison Square, catch me at the fight
[01:13.84] But damn once again if you pan left at the ice
[01:16.14] If you the man that write checks
[01:17.72] With the hand that don't write
[01:19.07] I go off the head when I'm ramblin' on the mic
[01:21.89] An' I go off the Feds when I'm scramblin' at night
[01:24.47] An' it was off the set, I brought hammers to the fight
[01:27.30] But we from New York City, right, Cam? Ya damn right
[01:30.37] It's the home of 9/11, the place of the lost towers
[01:33.75] We still bangin', we never lost power, tell 'em
[01:36.89] Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City
[01:41.85] Y'all fuckin' with BK's banger an' Harlem's own gangster
[01:45.13] Now that's danger, there's nothin' left to say but
[01:48.13] Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City
[01:52.58] Yo, there's a war goin' on outside, no man is safe from
[01:56.28] It don't matter if you three feet or eight one
[01:59.25] You'll get eight from me, nine an' straight blown
[02:01.96] Wig split, melon cracked, all that on day one
[02:04.85] Carry eight guns, two in the trunk
[02:06.75] Two in the waist, two in the ankle, two to just spank you
[02:11.01] You can jam with them jammers, blam with them blammers
[02:13.16] It's hot here, ask Mase, he ran to Atlanta
[02:15.62] You think we know what life do, make on the motorcycle
[02:18.97] Drinkers, they so delightful, blingin' with so much ice
[02:21.74] In front of Sparks, body cops Dilano
[02:24.58] Block away watched by Gotti an' Girvano
[02:27.02] It's 'La Costra Nostra', someone close approach ya
[02:30.54] They'll toast ya gopher, bread loaf with chauffeur
[02:33.42] Old coke they raise up an' snort, blaze up ya fort
[02:36.21] Jay puff shine, cases was caught
[02:38.57] Midnight pick fights, they love a victim
[02:41.66] Watch him 'fore he watch you, Killa, Killa
[02:45.26] Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City
[02:49.62] It's the home of 9/11, the place of the lost towers
[02:53.17] We still bangin', we never lost power, tell 'em
[02:55.62] Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City
[03:00.80] Y'all fuckin' with BK's banger an' Harlem's own gangster
[03:04.44] Now that's danger, there's nothin' left to say but
[03:07.82] Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City
[03:12.17] I'm from 101, west to Hunt, 40th, this shit is live
[03:15.39] Fifth floor, 56, you know the zip, district five
[03:18.61] You're on 22nd, hit you from 2 1
[03:20.81] That's on Lennox, 7th Ave was News One
[03:24.23] Coverage, I synethestry, got Braffin defendin' me
[03:26.72] 'Cause New York'll miss me if I'm locked in the penitentiary
[03:29.41] The judge said, "Is this that thug from the Kit Kat Club?"
[03:31.79] But I got enough chips stacked up to make a bitch to pack up
[03:34.96] I pinch that button, I grip that snub to hit that thug
[03:38.46] Lay up in a pitch black tug
[03:40.54] You lookin' at rich black thugs to get that love
[03:43.51] An' won't stop 'til I get back blood, Holla at 'em Hov
[03:46.27] I'm from Flushin', Marcy, Nostrand, Myrtle an' Park
[03:49.51] Niggas'll drive by in the day, murder you in the dark
[03:51.83] That's why the Johnny gun I'm holdin'
[03:53.55] Wet niggas up like this Johnny pump is open
[03:56.24] Homie, I play hard
[03:57.31] It's the home of 9/11, the place of the lost towers
[04:00.95] We still bangin', we never lost power, tell 'em
[04:03.98] Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City
[04:08.84] Y'all fuckin' with BK's banger an' Harlem's own gangster
[04:12.27] Now that's danger, there's nothin' left to say but
[04:15.96] Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City
[04:22.50] Y'all niggas, man, y'all can't fuck around, man
[04:26.52] It's the Roc, bitch, Killa, my nigga Jigga, Sigel, Beans
[04:32.06] (Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City)
[04:32.77] Diplomats man, holla, Dash, get the fuck off our dicks, no homo
[04:38.96] Bullshit, whatever y'all wanna say for two minutes, man
[04:41.46] (Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City)
[04:42.81] I own this shit right now, man, I ain't goin' nowhere
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[05:04.07] Welcome to New York City
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