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