Chorus: 2X
Yo, you gotta go, you go, you gotta go (G: And aiyyo, what you don't know, the ghetto knows)
G. Rap] New York, New York, the city that sleeps Bodies, covered in white sheets, are layin in the Shit gets deep, as we creep up the block by the slangin rocks and glocks stolen from the cops to get props You split a top, on the regular or get in your mug, from a slug, by your competitor Gunshots echo throughout the city like thunder, no Another six feet under You know it ain't no jokin when the streetlights are 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 press 9-1-1 (word up) or make a run for it too many to tackle The Big Apple'll put your ass on ice a Snapple So even though I rap I to stay strapped act up I back up (PI-YAH) I a cap inside your fuckin hat Don't even with them hoes, the swinger that you chose just be down with the foes, only the shadow knows And no lollipop, lollipop over here only the shottie pops (BOOM) Now just sit back and the bodies drop The younger got the bigger niggaz runnin The shorties (what) the (what) the shorties are comin to push a nigga wig back, and leave his ass on his back The motherfuckin ghetto knows, and like that
[Kool G. Today's headlines, another dead 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 filled Feds Ramshacked the shack, disclouse 'bout two of dope Two of coke's caught in the pocket of his coat So, another brother caught the surprise with blown out brains, to drop on his eyes Dazed as I sit back and watch the channel two Watchin his family through all the boo-hoos You lose, an Ill Street, the Blues are gettin deeper Nothin in the room except for him, the Grim Reaper Police are takin ? snapshots, scoop up some Pull out a file on a juvenile child of 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 yellow tape, draw the white around the body now the party has to motivate One outlaw, was murdered on the scene for the green at the age of seventeen
[Kool G. Strollin the concrete, packin my heat, the backstreets I seen niggaz pull up, peepin me out the a black Jeep Six feet deep, that's where I'm goin if I'm Steady cockin my shit cause I already got the in Now who's the first nigga to run up, they come up the block hardrocks with glocks rollin holdin they up I buck, I buck, and I struck one in the chest Nigga wore a vest but now his ass is put to rest But now I got three mo' niggaz, triggers Strays are off the bricks, zigga zigga But who got the biggest Who's bustin bigger caps? My BOOM BOOM BOOMS they PAP PAP PAPS No haps, G. Rap ain't 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 with a inside my nappy Two more niggaz left, they scared to death, but I'm Shit gets scary when I got bulletholes near me I went between two cars, lettin off the pound I see another body fallin down to the Quick I run up on him cause I don't think that he's over his ass I put two more inside his head That's three niggaz down, only got one to go I gots to send his ass to the so I lay low in the cut and wait for moneygrip to up Nearly my whole clip up, I got one more slug to rip up Look over by the GS, see his ass 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 down right on the motherfuckin streets that he
2.5X