| Can’t make it in New York… I dunno
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| Can’t make it in New York fam, I feel for you
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| Stop playing if the game’s too real for you
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| before we steal for you, hit the streets and make a mill for you
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| Steal for you, kill for you
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| Can’t make it in New York fam, I feel for you
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| Stop playing if the game’s too real for you
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| before we steal for you, hit the streets and make a mill for you
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| Steal for you, kill for you
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| I lost money in New York
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| Made money in New York
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| Little shorties had lost the grenades for me in New York
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| Respect the haters lov for me in New York
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| And blood is thicker than watr for me in New York
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| I survived in New York
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| Saved lives in New York
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| Get too big for your britches, you could die in New York
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| Coming up I watch dudes get money effortlessly
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| And come through with them new whips, paper game
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| Writing checks in large amounts
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| Take your life savings and your dough in your charge accounts
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| Three card, Josslers and mobsters, dope fiends and dustheads, and rastas
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| Nowadays we getting money so cautious
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| Shit was buckwil' back when Koch was in office
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| Dude so lawless, y’all know steak and swordfish pushing Lamborghinis and
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| Porsches
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| As long as there’s a sucker born every minute, we gonna get it
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| Screw the mayor governor, the president, us senate
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| Guess we coming through hat low windows tinted
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| Ya l still do the do but I do it like Frank Matthews
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| Can’t make it in New York fam, I feel for you
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| Stop playing if the game’s too real for you
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| before we steal for you, hit the streets and make a mill for you
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| Steal for you, kill for you
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| Uptown and downtown getting paper in two places
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| Shit the phantom put tips on shoelaces
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| Running in new faces weed and blow wherever you go
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| Blackjacks, kings, and aces
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| Even in jail, my time went fast, cats talking out they ass
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| About hitting me with consignment
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| What? |
| Talk’s of living all plush when
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| Dudes came home fucked up came up work construction
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| Whatever talent you got you can apply out in New York
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| Whatever you selling they gonna buy it
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| I can’t deny it a vic is a vic
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| Ask dudes pimping them chicks man, a trick is a trick
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| Man’s s’all gonna bring home paper to eat with
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| One learned how to do it sit back and peep shit
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| I was a student before I became a teacher
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| I know a preacher with about as much soul as a cheap pair of sneakers
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| Can’t make it in New York fam, I feel for you
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| Stop playing if the game’s too real for you
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| before we steal for you, hit the streets and make a mill for you
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| Steal for you, kill for you |