[Verse One] [Emilio Rojas]: City lights shine in a city like mine 24/7 on an inner city like grind Many cities like mine, bright eyes, big dreams Tenements and skylines fight (cry) kick (scream) Night time, dick freaks, white lines, sniff, tweak Lifestyle frigid like an icebox, b**h freeze b**h please, which fiends snitch should get a b**h plee Crisp jeans but the kids sick enough to get fleas Mislead women, never hit these women for the prestige sinnin' To a disease with it Ain't no empty clinics When we fill prescriptions for addictions Methadone, Valium and Ritalin Your bail out ain't hittin' us We been in recession for years They sent us stimulus affectin' they peers And that's it Look how they trickin' us with black lists We're prisoners with our lifestyles and habits [Chorus] [Emilio Rojas]: We be on the ave Backstreets, alleys and cizzurbs Concrete slabs with the cracks and the fissures World keeps pa**in' us by as it tizzurn But we got cash not a bizzurn We be on the ave Backstreets, alleys and cizzurbs Concrete slabs with the cracks and the fissures World keeps pa**in' us by as it tizzurn But we got cash not a bizzurn [Verse Two] [Fashawn]: Still at the bus stop Back to the block, I ain't succeed Baby to feed, hungry and my stomach in knots I need money, but who doesn't since the government flop I've reconsidered hustlin' rocks I'll end up, like my pops Just went back to the box for ten months Spittin' image, hiddin' crack in my socks What the f**? We on the ave The corner, gunshots and coroners New York, New York to sunny California Late nights we on, same song in the mornin', no Stayin' in the house, out on a paper route F.C. state of mind, puffin' weed all the time Stackin' G's on the grind Hard to get a nine to five First they give us the work Then they throw us in jail Shoebox full of money in case you need bail I'm just a section 8 kid with a story to tell Or a n***a with an attitude, chillin' on the avenue [Chorus] [Emilio Rojas]: We be on the ave Backstreets, alleys and cizzurbs Concrete slabs with the cracks and the fissures World keeps pa**in' us by as it tizzurn But we got cash not a bizzurn We be on the ave Backstreets, alleys and cizzurbs Concrete slabs with the cracks and the fissures World keeps pa**in' us by as it tizzurn But we got cash not a bizzurn