And you say New York City!
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Duane 'Darock', KRS
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It's New Yorrrrrrrrrk, and we livin
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The whole world, it knows, your name
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It's New Yorrrrrrrrrk, and we livin
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The whole world, it knows, your name
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Lenox Avenue, Park Ave
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Long Island I see you baby
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Jamaican Ave, Queens kRS, let's go!
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New, York, City, get it right, get it tight
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Get it hype
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New York City's in the house tonight
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All day, off and on, Broadway
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The world's Big Apple is what they all say
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Wait, way back in the day
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Dudes from the South migrated this way North
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Lookin for the higher pay of course
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Led by the forces they became big bosses
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Like Rick Ross is, the city that never sleeps
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Yup, New York is if you can make it here
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You can make it anywhere what's that?
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Flatbush! Brooklyn (we live this)
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BX Bronx, c'mon
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Gun Hill Road, Grand Concourse
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New, York, City, still part of my heart
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Still part of my start
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As you can see it's still, part of my art
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Still part of my lesson plan, listen man'!
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NY, every year we fresh again
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I be doin South Bronx everywhere I go
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Everywhere I go, every nation know
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I'm a New York dude that's not New York rude
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All over the world I eat New York food
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Ha, I'm at home anywhere, any place
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Right now somebody from New
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York in this place
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Yeah, no matter where I be
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I'll always be N-Y-C
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Coney Island! Brighton Beach wooo, Red Hook!
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I see you Canal Street, Delancey Street
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Hester Street, c'mon, New York let's go
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New, York, City, metropolitan life
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Cosmopolitan life
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It put the strength inside of my life
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But New York City got it's challenges also
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Racism, sexism, crime, you all know!
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Them guns that keep goin off bustin
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And another one bites the dust when
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Conflicts arise and dudes start bustin
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And cussin, I gotta speak to this
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New York is not unique in this
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But if we keep sewing this
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We gonna keep reapin this i'm teachin this
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We gotta overcome our weaknesses
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Remember man!
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Big up to the firefighters, rest in peace
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World Trades y'know
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Brooklyn! The Bronx, Queens
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Manhattan! Staten Island! New York
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Love it baby
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South Bronx south Bronx, big 'em up!
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Rest in peace Jam Master Jay, Big Pun
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Big L, Randy Parker
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You with us for life rest in peace my brother
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