
Date of issue: 27.05.1999
Record label: Reprise
Song language: English
NYC Minute |
Bright lights, big city, concrete, 5 boroughs. |
Everything is real like you see it in the photo, |
we be the grand total, world capital future, |
home of the paper schemes, ill natured, |
building skyscrapers rollers and shakers, hungry money makers, |
make you catch the vapors, everything is modern, expensive and flashy, |
watch out for the devil, cause he roams the streets. |
I got a concrete lawn and a concrete yard. |
Roots hard as concrete you can’t compete |
with this born winner who never been a loser, |
brother from the boogie |
who be biggin up and biggin up the Buddha mindstate, |
enter my city and you will find hate, |
ignorance and greed and people walking |
walking by brothers on the street bleeding. |
Still you might find everything you needed. |
Chorus |
Can’t be too timid in a NYC minute NYC minute |
everybody wants to live it, blood spilling, |
people killing in a NYC minute, |
no smiles, just grinning, that’s how we living. |
Bright lights, big city, concrete, 5 boroughs. |
Everything is real like you see it in the photo, |
we be the grand total, world capital future, |
home of the paper schemes, ill natured, |
building skyscrapers rollers and shakers, hungry money makers, |
make you catch the vapors, everything is modern, expensive and flashy, |
watch out for the devil, cause he roams the streets. |
Now my momma and my poppa taught me mad realities, |
plus the Southern Boulevard hospitalities, |
but back alleys is where I dilly dallied, casually, |
with things that cause fatalities. |
Amazingly I always seemed to keep my faculties. |
Others never had such luck got drugged got drunk |
got tough got rough and got snuffed out. |
Too fucked up or too slow to pull the gun out. |
Time it seems to run out quick |
for a lot of kids seem to turn |
to crime real quick and do a lot of bids. |
And every crew is out to make a hit, |
New York is the craziest. |
Chorus |
Can’t be too timid in a NYC minute NYC minute |
everybody wants to live it, blood spilling, |
people killing in a NYC minute, |
no smiles, just grinning, that’s how we living. |
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