[Hook]
What up Harlem (Whatup Harlem)
What up Brooklyn (Wa**up Brooklyn)
What up Queens (Wa**up)
BX nah mean (Stand up)
And this is New York (New York)
And we gone bring it back (Bring it back)
To dat real sh** (Muhf**a)
That put us on da map (Where you at?)
[Verse 1]
East coast reppin, Harlem steppin
f** around wit me my n***as beat ya a** like tekken
Livin life fast everyday is jus a blessing
Hoppin in the booth and make music with a message
Livin on da block n***a hope you hold protection
n***as make money off snitchin they profession
So neva repeat that, run in where you sleep at
Make every muthaf**a bow down on they knee cap
Be puffin da hydro, I roll it wit fonto
N that's the recipe to keep a black n***a eye low
And n***a I need mo'
Money or cheddar we stackin up mozzarella
And we be changing the weather until it rain down
Po down, n***a how you like me now
Reppin east side New York City got the f**in crown
So let me tell you how it's goin down raised by da gutta
Tell these n***as dat we on now
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[Verse 2]
Queensbridge ain't gone play around wit ya
BX drop bombs and will boogie down wit ya
Them shaolin k**as no they gonna come get ya
N that's real f**in life this ain't no motion picturce
Rhyme spitta and neva gonna trust no n***a
I'm on a f**ing mission gotta be a go getta
Flow quicker then the other one, sicker than the other one
Do it for the late great Biggie n Big Pun, you see son
Gotta watch yo back when them D's come
Ain't tryna get locked over smokin no weed blunts
You see son, gotta stay stay awake on these streets son
Cuz n***as neva sleep in the city I come from
[Hook]