Streets Of New York Lyrics

Streets Of New York

[Nas] (Alicia Keys)
Nasty, yeah, yeah (New York, New York)
Hey yo black
it's time again, yeah, yeah
(New York, New York)
Come here, yeah,
yeah
(New York, New York)
Hey yo black it's time

(*"yeah, yeah,
hey yo black it's time" - continues throughout song*)

[Nas]
If you
knew my streets
You would know all everybody talk about is who got
beef
Who snitchin, who told police
Who came home, who still gone, who
restin in peace
Now they killin over music money, not drugs, rap replaced
it
Cause thugs with no brains got no patience
New jacks I pistol whip 'em
with the funky rhythm I be kickin
Musician and flatten composition
A pain,
I'm like Saddam Hussein
Still alive lookin at his dead children's burnt
remains
I burnt the game, learnt you lames a new lesson
Your crew's soft
man, ya'll need some new weapons
The P's breathe Warriorz and skullies and
Timmies
Around mixed, spics, niggaz and giddies
From my ghetto kings in
deep thought we don't blink
But don't think we wastin our time
It's a New
York State of Mind

[Chorus #1 - Alicia Keys]
New York, New York, New
York
New York City, whoa oh
New York, New York, New York
New York
City, baby

[Alicia Keys]
It's like a jungle, out here
So much
struggle, out here
And my dream's still unphased
Greed still the cousin
of death
Always feels like always somethin farther time
In the Streets of
New York
(New York state of mind, New York State of mind)

[Alicia
Keys]
All I see is street homes
And who it's holdin, our people
Only
comforts the brain
It's like I'm going insane
The revolution has to
start, don't waste no time
In the Streets of New York
(New York state of
mind, New York state of mind)
C'mon

[Chorus #2 - Alicia Keys]
New
York, New York, New York, New York oh
State of mind (New York City)
New
York, New York, New York, New York oh
State of crime (New York City)
New
York, New York, New York, New York oh
Big dreams (New York City)
New
York, New York, New York, New York oh
Big schemes

[Alicia
Keys]
Oh, break the game
Just ain't the same
Baby loves and girls with
no shame
Can't get away (get away), epidemic plague
Every hood in every
state
Don't have no reasons cause relieve is hard to find

[Break -
Alicia Keys]
In the streets of New York (New York state of mind) -
4X
(*"New York state of mind" is also repeated in
background*)

[Rakim]
I'm from the home of a million legends and trend
settin
A lot of footsteps to follow, I've been steppin
Mind stressin tryin
to find a record crime shreddin
Time precious, I ain't have rest since nine
eleven
I live fast, hustle like today is my last
I get cash, the
struggle's like a day on the Ave.
Crack bein raw, gats squeezin
off
Manhattan squeezin off, from cats who tease with war
The eve of the
Apocalypse, evil keep movin politics
Every block is at risk, the
metropolitan metropolis
The opposite of Liza Minelli and Frank
Sinatra
Alicia Keys, Nas and Ra the gangsta's opera
So New York City walk
with me, talk gritty
It's up to us New York it's our city
Here the man
come with the anthem, hands up
It's time the thrill is back New York, let's
stand up

[Chorus] - w/ ad libs

[Rakim - talking behind
Chorus]
Oh yeah, crucial Keys
Your God Rakim Allah
New York City,
Nasty Nas
A. Keys, yeah, c'mon