[from the movie _Wildstyle_
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If you was born in New york City let me hear say "You know that"!
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YOU KNOW THAT
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Aiyyo, once upon a rhyme where the scenery sets, you see stress
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Streets a matter of life and death, no regrets
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Life's a test, strife, wit special effects
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Neighbourhood's full of reps, cities are projects
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Where the young cadets get stripes from the vets
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And comrades quest to be the next, to finess
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Collect debts and select bets with death threats
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Object - Chedder, better your total net
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Where trends are set from ways to express the outfits
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Friends get wet tryin' to make ends connect
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Avenues to check, boulevards to sweat
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The smell of gunsmoke more common than cigarettes
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WE GOT clicks for wreck
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WE LIKE Pits for pets
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WE GOT Giants and Jets, the Knicks, Yanks and Mets
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WE LIKE much respect and sex extra wet
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And High-Tech dialect you ain't catch yet
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(The Bronx
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Ya out there?
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No doubt
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Brooklyn
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ya out there)
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[Rakim]
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Aiyyo, we got blocks and glocks with
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big shots with big knots and big props
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yo this is where the bullshit stops
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where herbs get got
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if you snitch you get shot
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we get down and leave the town in a state of shock
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WE GOT dangerous hang out spots and slick cops
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place called Riker's Island where kids get locked
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a lotta gear to rock with blocks of clothes shops
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styles are top notch, this is the place to buy
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so bust the box the radio station is hot
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ease your mind staring at skylines from rooftops
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flip scripts for chips
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and new Whips of the lot
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quick to call a shot, pollitic with thick plots
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And the Garden of Eden against the sea that we got
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to make sure the core of the big apple don't rot
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where seeings believing we be achieving a lot
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since disc jocks created hip hop, check it out!
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(Queens
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ya out there?
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no doubt
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Manhatten
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no doubt
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New York city
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Staten Island
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New york new york
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long Island
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New york
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ya out there)
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[Rakim]
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Aiyo, we got five bouroughs of ghettos
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with amny places to meet, you get lost in city streets
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the city that never sleeps
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Mecca ? Medina the population increase
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the desert and the oasis, New York, the far east
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with gods and Sheiks
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pretty amazons for weeks
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player dons that fleece the family's black sheep
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icons that teach that we all act unique
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we got stats to reach so we all have to eat
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a mass of peeps, with they own masterpiece
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the crafts elite, we going past the beat
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the latest technique no other place get as deep
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who parks release some of the worlds greatest athletes
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DJs and MCs and graffiti artistes
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who use walls and subway trains for marquees
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we go back to b-boys, breakdancing, breakbeats
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and it'll never cease and on that note
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we say peace
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New York (Ya Out there?)
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| Rakim |
