| [00:00.215][Intro: Jim Jones] | |
| [00:00.718] | New York City, please go easy on me tonight |
| [00:05.809] | New York City, please go easy on this heart of mine |
| [00:10.812] | This Rotten Apple |
| [00:11.565] | 'Cause I'm losin' my lover to (Crime wave) the arms of another (Uh) |
| [00:17.347] | New York City (East side), please go easy on (Heatmakerz) me |
| [00:21.600] | (Crack Music) |
| [00:23.107] | Tonight |
| [00:23.370] | Jones |
| [00:23.620][Verse 1: Jim Jones] | |
| [00:23.870] | Crime and the murder rate, that rose up (It's hot out) |
| [00:25.389] | Every time he got a bird and the crack rose up (Free) |
| [00:28.138] | I don't jog in Central Park, don't need mistaken identity (Capo) |
| [00:31.388] | Watch for the scammers because they takin' identities (Your pieces hittin'?) |
| [00:34.139] | There's eight million stories on a daily basis (Facts) |
| [00:37.389] | Niggas chasin' dreams or catchin' scary cases (Gotta lawyer up) |
| [00:40.139] | No more pitchin' to the fiends until they clear the bases (Woo) |
| [00:43.141] | I knew niggas that was wired like they wearin' braces (Check him) |
| [00:45.894] | Drug dealers and killers I was on corners with (True) |
| [00:48.650] | Even played in the Garden like I was on the Knicks (Swish) |
| [00:51.444] | But when I came through Harlem, all type of foreign shit (Serve 'em fast) |
| [00:54.205] | Top off, titties out, nigga, this like a porno flick (Facts) |
| [00:56.980] | So I pray for 9/11 in my 911 (Pray for us) |
| [01:00.231] | Couple niggas missed some shots, it ain't my time in Heaven (Missed, nigga) |
| [01:02.994] | No due respect but due to these model hoes |
| [01:05.513] | I seen niggas lose they soul and, damn, it gets swallowed whole (Silly niggas) |
| [01:08.544] | Bitch, you a bottle girl and keep my bottles cold |
| [01:13.224] | I came through drippin' all type of designer clothes (Pray for us) |
| [01:14.494][Chorus: Fat Joe] | |
| [01:14.735] | New York City, please go easy on me tonight |
| [01:16.028] | New York City, please go easy on this heart of mine |
| [01:20.050] | 'Cause I'm losin' my lover to the arms of another (Faults and mishappens, nigga) |
| [01:26.572] | New York City (Bronx, New York), please go easy (Capo) on me |
| [01:28.594] | (Gyeah, uh, yo) |
| [01:30.859] | Tonight |
| [01:31.110][Verse 2: Fat Joe] | |
| [01:31.367] | Since fourteen, I was wavin' that thing |
| [01:34.171] | Had nigga's doorbells, you called, I let it ring (I let it ring) |
| [01:37.198] | Dominicanos uptown they yellin', "Thot doe" |
| [01:40.226] | New York's Pablo, same lawyer as Chapo |
| [01:42.989] | Brand new ass and titties, she can't wait |
| [01:45.762] | Soon as it get hot, call it Thottiana day (Thottiana) |
| [01:48.546] | We got accountants to watch the accounts |
| [01:51.075] | Coke flowin' out the fountains, pool drippin' off the mountains |
| [01:54.397] | Got that new work, flood the city with bricks |
| [01:56.928] | You call it a chandelier, that Sue Cullen is on my wrist |
| [01:59.984] | I been runnin' it ever since, these niggas is on E |
| [02:02.514] | I got 'em trappin' out the Air BnB (Coca) |
| [02:05.562] | Small time niggas, we are not those guys |
| [02:08.335] | Just copped the Ace of Spades, nigga, Costco size |
| [02:11.372] | Influenced the hustlers to go cop those pies |
| [02:14.166] | My co dead, I'm 'bout to rock on Live |
| [02:16.959][Chorus] | |
| [02:16.959] | New York City, please go easy on me tonight |
| [02:23.045] | New York City, please go easy on this heart of mine |
| [02:28.327] | 'Cause I'm losin' my lover to the arms of another |
| [02:33.924] | New York City please go easy on me tonight |
| [02:43.068] | Tonight |
| [02:51.682] | New York City (City-City-City) |
| [02:54.212][Interlude] | |
| [02:54.212] | It is a number that is almost incomprehensible |
| [02:56.741] | Especially when so many of the victims are teenagers |
| [02:59.789] | High School graduate of dreams of being an architect is gunned down at an Atlanta apartment complex |
| [03:05.356] | Major heartbreak in South L.A. this morning after a teen was shot and killed |
| [03:09.633] | The deadly shooting of a teenager at a northeast Miami bus stop |
| [03:13.198] | Teenager shot in the head in East Harlem |
| [03:15.220] | Shakur was shot four times after leaving the Mike Tyson boxing match in Las Vegas |
| [03:19.249] | Los Angeles police are investigating the shooting death of rapper Notorious B.I.G., also known as Biggie Smalls |
| [03:24.830] | He was gunned down early today |
| [03:27.091] | XXXTentacion has been shot, apparently targeted while shopping for a motorcycle |
| [03:31.646] | Fans and neighbors leaving flowers, candles, notes on rapper Mac Miller's doorstep |
| [03:35.923] | Singer, actress Aaliyah is killed in a plane crash |
| [03:39.448] | We begin with breaking news at 5 Live from Sky 2, a triple shooting outside a clothing store in Hyde Park |
| [03:45.493] | This on the 43rd block of West Slauson Avenue |
| [03:48.550] | Now according to the L.A. Times, one of the people shot is rapper Nipsey Hussle |
| [03:52.837] | We're told he was shot multiple times |