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 that never Bodies, in white sheets, are layin in the streets Shit deep, as we creep up the block by the kids slangin rocks and holdin stolen from the cops to get props You gotta split a top, on the or get in your mug, from a slug, by your competitor echo throughout the city like thunder, no wonder Another brother six feet You know it ain't no jokin when the 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 a run for it there's too many to tackle The Big Apple'll put your ass on ice a Snapple So though I rap I gots to stay strapped Niggaz act up I up (PI-YAH) I bust a cap inside fuckin hat even pose with them hoes, the swinger that you chose just might be down with the foes, the shadow knows And ain't no lollipop, over here only the shottie pops (BOOM) Now just sit back and watch the bodies The younger gunmen got the bigger runnin The (what) the shorties (what) the shorties 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 and fo' to the head Followed the red bitch in the bed of lead A drug-related and now the place is filled with Feds Ramshacked the shack, disclouse two kilos of dope Two ounces of coke's in the pocket of his coat So, another brother the ultimate surprise with blown out brains, to drop on his eyes Dazed as I sit and watch the channel two news Watchin his family goin all the boo-hoos You lose, like an Ill Street, the Blues are deeper Nothin left in the room 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 just, pull out the white sheets, to cover up the dead meat Seal off the area with yellow tape, draw the chalk around the body now the party has to One more outlaw, was on the scene for the green Died at the age of
[Kool G. Strollin the concrete, packin my heat, walkin the I seen niggaz pull up, peepin me out the side a black Six feet deep, that's where I'm goin if I'm Steady my shit cause I already got the clip in Now who's the first to run up, here they come up the block with glocks rollin holdin they guns up I buck, I buck, and then I one in the chest Nigga shoulda wore a but now his ass is put to rest But now I got three mo' niggaz, triggers Strays are ricochetin off the bricks, zigga But who got the biggest strap? bustin bigger caps? My BOOM BOOMS against they PAP PAP PAPS No haps, G. Rap ain't goin out like a I the shot and dropped another motherfucker Quick, I and shit to dodge the bullets comin at me Cause I be too happy with a slug inside my nappy Two more niggaz left, they scared to death, but I'm Shit gets kinda scary I got bulletholes near me I went between two cars, off the quarter pound I see another body fallin down to the Quick I run up on him I don't think that he's dead Standin his ass I put two more inside his head That's three 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 to slip up Nearly shot my 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 of his brain dead out the back of his head, now he's dead, he fell face down right on the motherfuckin streets that he
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