所属专辑:A Long Hot Summer
歌手: Masta Ace
时长: 03:01
'New York Big City of Dreams'[00:00:24]
To get by cats doing plenty of things[00:00:34]
It's a honest hustle but you gotta have some kind of muscle[00:00:36]
Either it's that or you sign with Russel[00:00:40]
'Cause nowadays an average cat can flow decent[00:00:42]
So in your sparetime you can go to the precinct[00:00:45]
Let me introduce you to some cats who won't shoot you[00:00:48]
Everyday they're spinnnin their pen it's so crucial[00:00:51]
They got kids to feed wifes to hug[00:00:54]
Their jobs are so strange their lifes above[00:00:57]
Look my n***a Al had a store in his trunk[00:00:59]
And the place under the dash where he store his pump[00:01:02]
He had them white and white 'Air Force Ones' for 40[00:01:05]
And them iddy biddy kiddy ones for shorty[00:01:08]
He was just trying to survive to the session[00:01:11]
Now he's locked up for stolen goods and gun posession[00:01:14]
My n***a Neek had them first for cheek[00:01:17]
He bough a too family home and excursion jeep[00:01:20]
But word got around he was doing it big[00:01:23]
Cops ran up in his crib now he's doing a bit[00:01:25]
Now Jose was making money hand over biz[00:01:28]
He had legimated jobs with a little bit of a twist[00:01:31]
Besides me and my man I've known people[00:01:34]
He sold stuff too out of the back of home deepo[00:01:37]
Everything from new tools to kitchen sinks[00:01:40]
And he was just trying to get rich as stinks[00:01:43]
'Cause now he lost his job and his morgage due[00:01:46]
And he can't afford a lawyer man law gets through oooh[00:01:48]
We were lying on skeems and skams[00:01:52]
Just so we could realize our dreams and plans man[00:01:54]
This ain't America is it[00:01:57]
It don't take much for the cops to come pay you a visit[00:01:59]
But do what you gotta do f**k them laws[00:02:03]
Life is a test you better up them scores[00:02:06]
Listen I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to life[00:02:08]
And here is some advise I been dying to give[00:02:11]
They don't care if you sell it to inner section[00:02:15]
Republicans run for officers when ellection[00:02:17]
Who's in the inner section see my pen errecting[00:02:21]
This for my cats that just been effecting[00:02:24]
From ground sillawats it's down steal the spots[00:02:26]
It won't stop untill we're down kill the cops[00:02:29]
It's a revolution you believe in god a evolution[00:02:31]
Either way dog we need a resolution like Aaliyah[00:02:35]
A man got sentenced to a year[00:02:38]
And when he get out it's another street career[00:02:40]
It's a vicious cycle[00:02:43]
For every kid who ball in the park and wish he might do[00:02:44]
Listen the world don't like you but[00:02:47]
You better keep it moving you better keep improving[00:02:49]
You love my voice ain't it deep insolvent[00:02:52]
I'm saying f**k fame I'm having a no name[00:02:54]
Platinum and gold chain and saying[00:02:57]
I'ma beat 'em at their own game[00:02:59]