[00:00.73]New York Times （Feat.50 Cent & Bas） - J. Cole
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[00:09.63]This for all my niggas in the city
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[00:15.95]This shit really for Queens though
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[00:19.76]Really for Queens though
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[00:22.45]Ya know?
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[00:27.69]Big city of dreams, motivated by schemes
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[00:31.88]Getting money regimine with my get money machine
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[00:36.00]Nah mean? yeah
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[00:44.50]Yeah New York times
[00:46.06]Come listen to these New York rhymes
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[00:48.56]A southern nigga with a New York mind
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[00:50.93]In the concrete jungle of Queen trying to be kings
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[00:54.05]Getting to the money of sins by any means
[00:56.26]As I watch it all, pain out, trying not to stand out
[00:59.57]Fish out of water, unofficial reporter
[01:01.82]Appear, life is a bitch I blow a kiss at her daughter
[01:05.00]In a city with nigga will leave you shit outta order
[01:07.62]So yeah, you heard the news, disturbing news
[01:10.43]Shot a brother in the head, thank the lord he ain't dead
[01:13.30]Was in a coma for months, eyes ain't opened them once
[01:16.11]My nigga visibally stretch in a mess he's smoking a blunt
[01:18.94]What could I say, I can't relate to that
[01:20.69]All I do is pray for that
[01:22.41]This is city god told me : 'go and make it' at
[01:25.35]I got a date with destiny, I'm running late for that
[01:27.97]Grab a paper, hey kid, you gotta pay for that
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[01:41.78]They say you can win anywhere
[01:43.16]If you can win here
[01:44.47]And you ain't been no where if you ain't been here
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[01:47.27]Ball so hard you aint really in the game man
[01:49.96]Same place, different face, on the train, man
[01:52.64]New York, New York
[01:53.70]Hop on the F train, took the express train
[01:56.01]Skip that local shit, my vocal sick
[01:57.45]That's how success came
[01:59.16]Once kings now we pawns in this chess game
[02:02.33]Wall Street got black slave blood stains
[02:04.77]Which means, we built this city
[02:07.32]And never got scraps while the devil got fat
[02:09.88]In fact, reparation for niggas and desperation
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[02:13.00]Fuck money, get my kid a real education
[02:15.81]Blood money spills, had a real revelation
[02:18.49]Southside make you realize there's still segregation
[02:21.63]Don't wanna preach I'm just thinking out loud
[02:23.88]Sometimes I wanna save the world and
[02:25.44]I be thinking bout how
[02:26.81]To lead my niggas to paradise
[02:29.32]Imagine the world, free from pain
[02:30.91]And we no longer scared the night
[02:32.72]Far from the crime, the blind leading the blind
[02:35.28]We gon make it primetime till we dyin'
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[02:47.43]（Extra, extra, read all about it）
[02:49.30]They say you can win anywhere
[02:50.67]If you can win here
[02:52.17]And you ain't been no where if you ain't been here
[02:54.92]Ball so hard you aint really in the game man
[02:57.79]Same place, different face, on the train, man
[03:00.35]New York, New York
[03:01.41]How I go from selling reefa and plates
[03:03.34]Till eating steaks with Cole and playing FIFA with Drake
[03:06.21]Should've been in the States, property of the Jakes
[03:08.89]Now I'm plotting on profits and properties on the lake
[03:11.89]Let me properly immigrate you to it
[03:14.64]Show you how the heads of states and gangsters do it
[03:17.58]Them niggas talk a lot of shit but they ain't been through it
[03:20.20]I done been up in everything, cars you never seen
[03:23.26]City's you never heard of, from the streets where they murder
[03:26.82]Police observe us till they reach the verdict
[03:29.93]Kill 'em all, fucking kill 'em all
[03:32.12]If you can't send 'em till the pen
[03:33.55]Send 'em to the morgue
[03:35.05]Send 'em to the Lord, fuck it, send his broad
[03:37.42]Hundred shots through the dark
[03:38.61]But they never hit my heart, nigga
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[03:41.29]Bitch nigga, take a pause
[03:43.01]Hundred shots through the dark you can never hit my heart
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[03:53.94]The New York Times
[03:54.94]（Extra, extra, read all about it）
[03:57.12]They say you can win anywhere
[03:58.37]If you can win here
[03:59.93]And you ain't been no where if you ain't been here
[04:02.55]Ball so hard you aint really in the game man
[04:05.36]Same place, different face, on the train, man
[04:08.11]New York, New York