Old school y'all

 Allow me if you will
 to indulge my verbal skill into a scene
 about the feeble minded schemes of a teen
 I tried to stay alive and I strived
 Sometimes I even cried
 I was only ten years plus five
 Nevertheless
 **** gave me stress
 my addiction to sess
 led to my first conviction and arrest
 yes yes
 the East New York style was like the wild wild west
 'cuz if you had to impress
 when you dressed in fresh gear
 "Hey yo, we only rockin' Bally's over here!"
 this year if you ain't got it
 you still could be down but play the rear
 you come to the section that I'm from
 ry to rock your fresh apparel
 and you'll be starin' down the barrel of a gun
 remember '83 and '84 in high school
 come December the jewel was the Brooklyn rule
 the restroom was off limits to the herbs
 cuz we was shootin' celo from the palms to the curbs
 lady luck be with me, daddy needs a new pair of shoes
 but daddy hates to lose so somebody got to get abused
 you think you jettin' with my dough, hell no
 nigga you don't know my steelo
 we 'bout to take a vote on your sheepskin coat
 and your phat gold rope chain
 you had to be insane to even get into the game
 it's me you need to thank
 that you're only gettin' ganked point blank
 my homeboy Tank got the shank

 that's how it was, so this is how it is
 you got to keep it real when you deal with them Brooklyn kids

 the Zulus dropped jewels on a school called ****
 now it's graphics, the gods had crazy mathematics
 chicks Uptown wore Louis Vuitton and Fendi
 wasn't friendly but for lunch at ****
 y'all could get it on
 a new mob culture deep like Bob Marley
 the brothas that was large Black Eyes and Eric Charley
 at Riverside they gave dough to any hoe that might want it
 if he had the loot you know that he would flaunt it
 in those days nobody pledged allegiance to a crew
 if it came to you or them best believe it would be you
 in two short years Brooklyn flipped shit, swithched
 a lot of brothas caught the blade 'cuz they snitched
 like the bitch ass niggas that they was because
 the Brooklyn brothas always keep an eye
 on what other brothas does
 security became an impurity, they tried to keep us quiet
 everytime they try it we would riot
 we made the front page when we took it to the stage
 in a rage on the masses
 we all left our classes broke fool in the school
 everybody lost their cool, no more shanks
 we had graduated to the tool

 that's how it was, so this is how it is
 you got to keep it real when you deal with them Brooklyn kids

 Now everybody talkin' bout the west coast, yeah
 they real with the skill but we was packin' toast
 in the days long gone, living wrong
 living trife, no life
 and the Decepticons rollin' through the night
 you betta take flight when you see 'em preparing for battle
 they roll a hundred deep in the street like cattle
 the only thing that slowed 'em down was ****
 and the **** gave 'em knowledge
 a third caught city jobs the others went to college
 the last third simply got worse schooling all the young boys
 that came behind the ones who came first

 that's how it was, so this is how it is
 you got to keep it real when you deal with them Brooklyn kids