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[00:00.00]"N.Y. State of Mind Pt. II"
[00:02.73]Uhh Yo, yo-yo, y'all
[00:03.79]Whattup? Whattup
[00:04.59]It's time man (Word, it's time?)
[00:05.49]Straight up, it's time man
[00:08.00]Aight, set that shit off
[00:09.96](Set it off then nigga, set it off)
[00:11.82]Broken glass in the hallway, bloodstained floors
[00:14.58]Neighbors, look at every bag you bring through your doors
[00:17.34]Lock the top lock, momma shoulda cuffed me to the radiator
[00:20.46]Why not? It might've saved later from my block
[00:23.47]N.Y. cops, hookers crawlin off the stroll, coughin
[00:26.64]Stitches in they head, stinkin and I dread thinkin they be snitchin
[00:29.57]But who else, could it be, shook at these, unmarked vans
[00:32.59]Parked in the dark -- NARC's, where's your heart?
[00:35.25]Hustlers starve; they bust a U-ey, I jog
[00:38.06]To my building -- come out later wearin camouflage
[00:41.04]See the sergeant and the captain -- strangle men
[00:43.65]Niggas gaspin for air; til they move no more and just stare
[00:46.68]With dead eyes -- tired of riots, shit is quiet
[00:49.49]Simple-minded fools infiltrate grimy crews
[00:52.26]Overcrowded cribs, uncles home from bids, sister's pregnant
[00:55.54]Father's on drugs, moms is smokin, beds is piss-infested
[00:58.45]Had eight partners growin up, eight turned to seven
[01:01.61]Seven turned to six niggas, got two in heaven
[01:04.34]Six of us, holdin it, now it's five rollin thick
[01:07.25]The sixth one's parole flipped; five niggas, went to four quick
[01:10.68]When he went O.T., college life, converted into gangbangin
[01:14.24]Four niggas still hangin, years passin and slang changin
[01:17.37]Three of us now, fourth nigga ain't around
[01:20.03]We all thought he was real -- he did the snake shit
[01:22.19]Fake shit -- beat his ass down, yo his mouth
[01:24.96]Could've got us all wasted, what a fuckin clown
[01:27.94]All I got left in the end is two of my best friends
[01:30.59]And we all goin out, to the death for these ends, WHAT?
[01:33.72]New York, New York (New York state of mind)
[01:39.15]New York, New York (New York state of mind)
[01:39.42]You heard about it, you see about it
[01:40.88]You read about it, it's in your papers
[01:43.09]It's in your daily news ("Get money!")
[01:45.51]New York chronicles, every day
[01:47.73]The crime rate, the murder rate
[01:50.10]The money rate, the paper chase, you know what I mean?
[01:54.27]New York state of mind baby, check it out
[01:57.35]I'm at the, gamblin spot, my hands on a knot
[02:00.20]New York Yankee cap cover my eyes, stand in one spot
[02:03.18]I take a nigga dough, send him home to a shoebox
[02:05.89]You lost that nigga I put your dollar in the jukebox
[02:08.97]Hear my favorite song, all these niggas sing along
[02:11.63]All the cigarette smoke's cloggin my lungs, hoodrats flashin they tongue
[02:15.31]Young thugs blastin they gun, we got reputations
[02:18.02]Bitches and niggas both on parole or probation
[02:21.06]Shit is sick, niggas got gats, army fatigues
[02:23.76]I got my eyes glued on, whoever walk in or leave
[02:26.33]Cause I ain't playin, niggas'll run up in here and shoot up this shit
[02:29.47]Stick yo' ass up, niggas'll find the loot in your kicks
[02:32.29]Bunch of triple-cross niggas, just New York niggas
[02:35.71]Lift you off your feet when they was just talkin with you
[02:38.57]Some of these dudes the Feds be on em, you knew em for years
[02:41.14]Be the type when you walk in a pub, they offer you beers
[02:43.91]That ain't gangsta, niggas is up North with tatted tears
[02:47.12]Your name's on the affadavit, you ratted kid
[02:50.19]Faggot-ass niggas that be scared to do they bids
[02:52.96]Fuck you, we run you out of N.Y, you can't live
[02:55.96]Got your quiet niggas, that relocated down South
[02:58.68]Comin back to floss, then you got the jealous loudmouths
[03:01.85]All of a sudden we got Crips and Bloods, D.T.'s
[03:04.98]Runnin round quick to split your mug, it's ea-sy to score
[03:08.20]But it's hard to get the shit off
[03:09.78]Niggas fightin over hundred sales, jump in the car and drive off
[03:13.39]When the fiend come around the block, happy as hell
[03:16.27]Niggas, mad cause they ain't get a piece of that sale
[03:19.18]Cutthroat connivers, universal, ghetto survivors
[03:21.86]Go to any hood that's live and make it liver
[03:25.44]A lot of niggas scheamin, some real, some niggas frontin
[03:28.26]But I'm a big dreamer, so watch me come up with somethin
[03:31.08]New York, New York
[03:33.74]New York, New York
[03:35.11]by OG