Intro: NYC NYC, it's hell of a place to be Come inside Wanna know? Let's go The Big Rotten Apple surrounded by runaways, connected by bridges And uplift the sky high, vertical positions Keeps criminals in vicious cycles Unrestrainable Cats be untameable and ghettos too You might see nightly drug busts on corners and in corridors Outside of tenement walls Number holes in back store fronts where senior citizens press their luck To win a quick bucks while blood guts Litter sidewalks where cops use chalk to outline Ya physical design, now peep the headlines "Madman kidnaps four or more Torch a nig' apartment store On 25th and Douglas", parallel in pages "The Mob hits" In Central Park, rapists with shake faces It's all thorough, one city, five boroughs Associated with interlockin sub tunnels New York's undercover, haa You n***as wanna know why the skies are grey like cold steel Air still, quality stand to see the Mob tell Too much confusion, car pollution, drug abusin
Distribution and gun shootin Teenagers sportin vibrator pagers, fornicators While immigrants work the garment district for low wages n***a's Pop's crazy alcoholic wit swollen lips My moms be on some ol' fat cat sh** It's economic, supply and demand, increase ya profit Wit mad product, they can't sign us like domestic violence It's goin down on my island or Manhatten The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens or Staten where sh** happens It's all thorough, one city, five boroughs Associated with interlockin sub tunnels New York's undercover brothers For all you motherf**ers and baby mothers Believe that! Outro: We're under siege, envy's NY period! See New York City we get deep We's rolls threes three and creep New York's undercover you'll discover You're under siege, envy's the NY period! See, huh Execution type murders Cops puttin n***as in the dope yoke hold Stranglin their life source....