[Rock Shabazz:]

(And you say New York City) (yeah!)

(And you say New York City) (yeah!)

(New York, New York)

(Watch out! We run New York)

(Hook)

In Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten, Manhattan

Truck Jewels and big gats sparkin

New York New York, land of the crime inner cities

Longshots always on the grind, If You with me

Load 'em up (load 'em up)

Spit 'em out (Spit 'em out)

Round 'em up (Round 'em up)

Buck 'em down (Buck 'em down)

Throw 'em up (Throw 'em up)

Shut 'em down (Shut 'em down)

Break 'em up, Break 'em down, Roll 'em up, Roll 'em out


[Crayon:]

Longshots

New York City

If you riding wit me

Collide with police, there's drugs and homicide in the streets

Live from inside of the beast the scribe writer reporting

Yo there's drama in the streets adolescents having abortions

Proceed with caution down these boulevards and avenues

Niggaz share the same attribute of ice grillin attitudes

D's watchin all the drugs sales and robberies

Reason being the ghetto's America's highest commodity

Blood splattered on the playground cause niggaz spray rounds

Thug niggaz with the 4-pound'll back that ass down

Murder for money and status, our bitches the baddest

Got fiends feeding their habits, D's looking at us through cameras

New York New York

Soldiers stay ready for war

WE THE TRENDSETTERS fuck what y'all was doing before!

Alpha and omega of rap right here

Newcomers guard your grill and watch your back

'Cause we never fight fair in


[Hook:]

In Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten, Manhattan

Truck Jewels and big gats sparkin

New York New York, land of the crime inner cities

Longshots always on the grind, If You with me

Load 'em up (load 'em up)

Spit 'em out (Spit 'em out)

Round 'em up (Round 'em up)

Buck 'em down (Buck 'em down)

Throw 'em up (Throw 'em up)

Shut 'em down (Shut 'em down)

Break 'em up, Break 'em down, Roll 'em up, Roll 'em out


[Rock Shabazz:]

During nightime, killers clap guns and blast slugs

Collapsed lung and mad blood if you catch one

In the mix of action, niggaz act dumb on spiced rhum

And light blunts, hearing fight drums

They must want drama, driving past the block

To blast the glock, years later you still feel the aftershock

We dash past the cops, blast open the Masterlock

Open the safe, grab a box and bag the crops

Pop the jeep trunk, gauge heat bumps

Get your meat lumped, stone tied to your feet dumped

In the Hudson, Colt 19 guns is bustin

You either assaulter or victim, what's your function?

Beef in the streets, they creep at least five deep

Streets? Had it up to here like Queen Latif(ah)

Street athletes, handle hammers and throw javelins to abdomens

Hundred yard dashes to sounds of sirens

Long streaks of violence, short periods of peace

Everybody grab they heat we got beef in the streets!

Longshot-niggaz defecate over beats

All this Black on Black bullshit nigga it gotta cease


[Hook]


[Crayon:]

Crime in the city

Find in the city

Mad dimes in the city

Do time for the city

Rhyme for the city

Crime Inner-cities

Longshots always on the grind, is you with me?


[Rock Shabazz:]

Live from New York, It's saturday night

World famous skyline, big city with bright lights

In Ghetto Gotham, the beast is clockin'

The streets is watchin', the people talkin'

The fiends is hawkin', the rapists stalkin'

The streets is darkened, the pits is barkin'

The glocks is sparkin', plus killers will air the block out

With the blacka blacka

Dig your back out

With the glock a, copper will take some Blacks out

Plus Crayon and Rock are, guaranteed to change Hip-Hop

Like Chuck and Flav with the clock

Shit be dope like coke in Ziplocs

Strong Island, Yonkers, Albany and company

New Rochelle, Mount Vern(on), Troy, Schenectady

Time travel back to '94 if you with me

New York state of mind hit ya, you've just entered


[Hook]


[Crayon:]

Crime in the city

Find in the city

Mad dimes in the city

Do time for the city

Rhyme for the city

Crime Inner-cities

Longshots always on the grind, is you with me?