| The monarch of the metropolis | 
| I sit on a throne made of asphalt and concrete | 
| Grill from the steel | 
| And my breath smell like the J train | 
| Fuck is up? | 
| Three stripes on the crown and a nike swoosh | 
| Megalomaniac and a slight recluse | 
| Let loose with the freak show | 
| The whole city move fast but i speak slow | 
| Doing pull ups at the stop light | 
| Drinkin 40s on the stoop on a hot night | 
| Killed a cracker on the block and I got life | 
| Came back resurrected — hop life | 
| Get money get fame get your name in lights | 
| But make sure I get credit if the game is tight | 
| Right hand to my heart I made a black man president with my art | 
| Started off as a dream | 
| Moved up north put coffee in the cream | 
| Caffeine in the mainline | 
| What the fuck you mean that the city ain’t mine | 
| (he's slow fly, he’s so fresh) | 
| Huh, yeah. | 
| I’m the king of New York nigga | 
| I’m the king of New York, nigga | 
| (he's so fly he’s so fresh) | 
| I’m the king of New York | 
| Fuck you mean I’m the king of New York | 
| Fuck Giuliani fuck Bloomberg | 
| The tourists come to see me not you herb | 
| I put the shine in the concrete | 
| I’m the only reason that there’s cops on the beat | 
| I’m the rhythm of this whole shit | 
| Nicky Barnes hit the city with a whole brick | 
| Son of Baldwin and Zora Neale | 
| Let me see your 120 show me that it’s real | 
| From tk to freebase | 
| My name dominate our whole weight in each state | 
| The new moves I originate | 
| Then turn on the tv and watch them all emulate | 
| I demonstrate moving down the interstate | 
| Then I talk shit cause you caught on a minute late | 
| Arrogant everybody owes me something | 
| Without me you niggas wouldn’t own nothing | 
| All a y’all should bow down and suck my dick | 
| What? | 
| no homo? | 
| fuck that shit | 
| Ain’t nobody comin out till I’m ready | 
| Shout out to Zulu and the Rocksteady | 
| I’m so heavy in these streets | 
| I’m the whole reason that yall muthafuckas eat | 
| Styles I create make sure you stay fed | 
| Put me up in Times Square watch them all break bread | 
| Big daddy gave birth to the nation | 
| The gods and the earths Dominicans and Haitians | 
| There’s so much culture in these veins | 
| It’s no wonder that I’ve gone insane | 
| But I must maintain | 
| Can’t have these lames fucking up the game | 
| It ain’t about supreme or your white boy jeans | 
| Without my stamp then it don’t mean a thing | 
| Y’all muthafuckas can have wall street and downtown | 
| I’ve got you muthafuckas surrounded | 
| You gotta either go out thru jersey you gotta go out through the bronx | 
| You gotta go through me to get where you need to go | 
| It was a long time ago as I remember | 
| A freezing afternoon back in december | 
| So there seems to be a man standing in the bank lobby | 
| No shoes on his feet like it was his hobby | 
| Kept on walkin | 
| Didn’t think twice | 
| Then I turned around sucka standing on ice | 
| His toes was curly sticking in the air | 
| And a smile on his face like he did not care | 
| He goes by the name or Mr. 14th Street | 
| Straight funky cold fresh just like this beat | 
| Haha |