City Lights-Ski Beatz

[ti:City Lights] [ar:Ski Beatz] [al:24 Hour Karate School-Twilight] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]City Lights - Ski Beatz [00:05.17]City lights wherever you are [00:08.46] [00:09.09]I'm solely drifting into New York [00:13.87]Yo everybody want to be heir to the throne [00:16.42]They like "Wait till I get it" [00:18.47]Ain't no crown in New York [00:19.59]'Cause Biggie died with it [00:20.89] [00:21.53]Corona and lime's what I'm sipping [00:23.26]Stare at the page [00:24.33]Configuring ways to write different [00:25.68] [00:26.27]Yours and my life is in no way compatible [00:28.34] [00:28.95]My upbringing would have mentally damaged you [00:31.64]I let the ink tell it [00:32.97]Deep stories in my melons [00:34.48]Stories of perseverance refusal of failing [00:37.06]Money making Manhattan [00:37.58] [00:38.15]Turn a snot nose into a captain [00:39.85]Life and times told through rapping [00:41.80]Home of the haze [00:42.69]There's plenty of ways to get paid [00:44.34]Beware of Aids [00:45.00]Killers with no names known to spray [00:46.48] [00:47.28]Pretty mommies with plenty booty [00:49.09]Bodegas parked outside [00:49.60] [00:50.96]You got the chummy churies [00:52.40]Old timers playing domino [00:53.14] [00:53.71]Dropping jewels [00:54.10] [00:54.82]If you listen [00:55.30]Then you guaranteed to glisten in it [00:56.89]City lights wherever you are [01:00.17] [01:00.74]I'm solely drifting into New York [01:06.62]Uh another worm out of [01:07.93]The Big Apple [01:09.45]Where I earned my stripes [01:11.39]Like Mickey Mantle [01:11.88] [01:12.74]Word to the torch held by [01:13.95]The Statue of Liberty [01:14.75] [01:15.68]You cannot un-kindle me [01:17.39]It's a love-hate relationship damn near [01:20.54]My family was lost to the cracks here [01:22.75]So I learned every block [01:24.16]Observed every crack here [01:25.61]PO-9 finds us a very big catch here [01:29.25]Lights camera action [01:31.34]Welcome to Manhattan [01:32.36]The city I run laps in [01:34.05]Harlem through the Heights [01:34.73]And the Bronx son [01:36.50]The hood's Mike Johnson [01:37.21] [01:38.11]Made moves in gold shoes [01:39.50]Green in Oz's Bk throughout Queens [01:42.01]They know the 2 Es [01:43.75]Victim of the system child of the state [01:46.11]Overlooking the city I see my face in [01:48.88]City lights wherever you are [01:52.25]I'm solely drifting in to New York [01:57.59] [01:58.19]Yo Naj the Don [01:59.81]Urban version of The New York Times [02:01.40] [02:02.23]The city's in my every line [02:04.10]I project the ghetto where [02:07.10]Projectiles eject out the metal [02:08.29] [02:09.93]Be clear the unbalanced attitude [02:12.41]Will get you leveled out here [02:14.67]Navy blue fitted with the NY logo [02:17.30]Lees and a discrete Polo moving dolo [02:19.07] [02:19.84]Roll with a G through this cold concrete [02:21.94]On these streets life's lost over Bs and Cs [02:24.41] [02:25.21]Dot all is cross those Ts [02:27.02]Check both sides [02:27.90]When you cross those streets [02:29.39]They shoot things [02:30.42] [02:31.08]Damn I love this surface 80s baby [02:33.57]Kool Herc helped birth this [02:35.75]Where heroes were made through heroin [02:37.33] [02:38.06]Five Burgos the most thorough in [02:40.08]City lights wherever you are [02:43.85]I'm solely drifting into New York