Chorus: 2X
Yo, you gotta go, you gotta go, you go (G: And aiyyo, what you don't know, believe the knows)
[Kool G. New York, New York, the city never sleeps Bodies, covered in white sheets, are layin in the Shit deep, as we creep up the block by the kids slangin rocks and holdin glocks stolen the cops to get props You split a top, on the regular or get in your mug, from a slug, by your competitor Gunshots throughout the city like thunder, no wonder brother six feet under You it ain't no jokin when the streetlights are broken So keep your open, or get ready for a, smokin 'loc Step out of line, I hope you got your gun son The Smith and Wess', you better press (word up) or make a run for it there's too to tackle The Big Apple'll put your ass on ice a Snapple So even though I rap I to stay strapped Niggaz act up I up (PI-YAH) I bust a cap your fuckin hat Don't even with them hoes, the swinger that you chose just might be down the foes, only the shadow knows And ain't no lollipop, over here only the shottie pops (BOOM) Now just sit and watch the bodies drop The younger gunmen got the niggaz runnin The shorties (what) the shorties (what) the are comin to push a nigga wig back, and leave his ass flat on his The ghetto knows, and it's like that
[Kool G. headlines, another nigga dead Six to the body and fo' to the Followed the red bitch in the bed full of A drug-related case and now the place is filled Feds Ramshacked the shack, disclouse 'bout two kilos of Two of coke's caught in the pocket of his coat So, another brother the ultimate surprise with out brains, to drop stains on his eyes Dazed as I sit back and the channel two news his family goin through all the boo-hoos You lose, like an Ill Street, the Blues are gettin Nothin left in the room for him, the Grim Reaper Police are takin ? snapshots, scoop up blooddrops out a file on a juvenile child of mugshots The cops he fell victim to laws on the street So they just, pull out the white sheets, to cover up the dead Seal off the area with yellow tape, the white chalk around the body now the has to motivate One more outlaw, was murdered on the for the green Died at the age of
[Kool G. the concrete, packin my heat, walkin the backstreets I seen niggaz pull up, peepin me out the side a Jeep Six feet deep, that's where I'm if I'm slippin cockin my shit cause I already got the clip in Now who's the first nigga to run up, here come up the block hardrocks with rollin holdin they guns up I buck, I buck, and then I one in the chest Nigga shoulda wore a vest but now his ass is put to But now I got three mo' niggaz, triggers Strays are ricochetin off the bricks, zigga But who got the strap? Who's bustin bigger caps? My BOOM BOOM BOOMS against they PAP PAP No haps, G. Rap ain't out like a sucker I reloaded the shot and dropped another Quick, I duck and shit to the bullets comin at me Cause I won't be too happy with a inside my nappy Two more niggaz left, they to death, but I'm leary Shit kinda scary when I got bulletholes near me I went between two cars, off the quarter pound I see another body down to the ground Quick I run up on him cause I think that he's dead Standin his ass I put two more inside his head three niggaz down, only got one nigga to go I gots to send his ass to the so I lay low in the cut and for moneygrip to slip up Nearly shot my whole clip up, I got one slug to rip up Look by the GS, see his ass stickin his head out Boom, let the lead out, blew a piece of his dead out the back of his head, now he's dead, because he fell face right on the motherfuckin streets he dwelled
2.5X