I got that Fulton shackles and that Manhattan price I stayed lucky on Utica Ave with those Brooklyn dice Then Hopping on the train to get where I'm going My mind is on my eternity but I'm stuck in this New York moment
It's my jungle gym, New York I made my marks You got me ready for the world even when I didn't no where to start You birth me , made me stronger As I continue to grow, concrete food you made me live longer
I wrote my name on you , gain my fame from you I made a ugly vision perfect , isn't that what a Yankee suppose to do In New York there's pain so we cover it in art And the world think they know our story's from the movies but they never played the part
I've driven the blocks I've road the trains I've Heard the shots And I no what the out come has contain
Up in the clouds and in my mind I'll see Jordan and Air ones kicks Hanging in the sky And my mama use to whoop my *** if I didn't have those shoe laces tied
But when It rains it pours in my city That's not precipitation , that's tears from mothers who son died in my city They say the puddle shows reflection of the hardship we learn from the gutters We fall as rain fall but some how New York we lean on each other
And fiends was fiendin from the same stoop my belly was fiendin for food But My mother did her best , while my sister Kept it cool But still this is my influence, this is who raised me They say if you enter New York world your better be born crazy
They say you can win anywhere if you win here And you ain't been nowhere if you ain't been here Same places , Same face on the train mane , New York New York
I'm home sick I have been for years ... Ill never forget my city ... I love you New York !! BK All Day