N.Y. State of Mind Pt. ll-Nas

[ti:N.Y. State of Mind Pt. ll] [ar:Nas] [al:I Am...] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]N.Y. State of Mind Pt. ll - Nas [00:01.78]Uhh [00:02.49]Yo yo-yo y'all [00:03.74]Whattup Whattup [00:04.64]It's time man (Word it's time ) [00:07.04]Straight up it's time man [00:09.10]Aight set that sh*t off [00:10.68](Set it off then ni**a set it off) [00:13.09]Broken glass in the hallway bloodstained floors [00:14.80]Neighbors look at every bag you bring through your doors [00:17.76]Lock the top lock momma shoulda cuffed me to the radiator [00:21.12]Why not It might've saved later from my block [00:23.92]N Y cops hookers crawlin off the stroll coughin [00:26.91]Stitches in they head stinkin and I dread thinkin they be snitchin [00:29.68] [00:30.25]But who else could it be shook at these unmarked vans [00:33.22]Parked in the dark -- NARC's where's your heart [00:35.94]Hustlers starve; they bust a U-e I jog [00:38.35]To my building -- come out later wearin camouflage [00:40.58] [00:41.39]See the sergeant and the captain -- strangle men [00:43.96]Niggaz gaspin for air; til they move no more and just stare [00:46.87]With dead eyes -- tired of riots sh*t is quiet [00:49.78]Simple-minded fools infiltrate grimy crews [00:51.28] [00:52.41]Overcrowded cribs uncles home from bids sister's pregnant [00:55.96]Father's on drugs moms is smokin beds is piss-infested [00:58.44] [00:58.99]Had eight partners growin up eight turned to seven [01:02.48]Seven turned to six niggaz got two in heaven [01:04.88]Six of us holdin it now it's five rollin thick [01:07.58]The sixth one's parole flipped; five niggaz went to fo' quick [01:11.15]When he went O T college life converted into gangbangin [01:14.70]Four niggaz still hangin years passed and slang changin [01:17.92]Three of us now fourth ni**a ain't around [01:20.32]We all thought he was real -- he did the snake sh*t [01:22.95]Fake sh*t -- beat his a** down yo his mouth [01:25.64]Could've got us all wasted what a f**kin clown [01:28.32]All I got left in the end is two of my best friends [01:31.16]And we all goin out to the death for these ends WHAT [01:34.41]New York New York ("New York state of mind" -> [Rakim]) [01:38.65] [01:39.41]New York New York ("New York state of mind" -> [Rakim]) [01:41.96][repeat while Nas is talking] [01:43.84]You heard about it you see about it [01:45.33]You read about it it's in your papers [01:46.80]It's in your daily news ("Get money ") [01:48.12]New York chronicles every day [01:49.56]The crime rate the murder rate [01:51.71]The money rate the paper chase youknowhatImean [01:54.28] [01:54.81]New York state of mind baby check it out [01:57.20] [01:57.72][Nas] [01:58.35]I'm at the gamblin spot my hands on a knot [02:00.98]New York Yankee cap cover my eyes stand in one spot [02:03.71]I take a ni**a dough send him home to a shoebox [02:06.40]You lost that ni**a I put your dollar in the jukebox [02:09.30]Hear my favorite song all these niggaz sing along [02:12.06]All the ciggarette smoke's cloggin my lungs hoodrats flashin they tongue [02:15.81]Young thugs blastin they gun we got reputations [02:18.01] [02:18.58]B**ches and niggaz both on parole or probation [02:20.58] [02:21.24]Sh*t is sick niggaz got gats army fatigues [02:24.09]I got my eyes glued on whoever walk in the lead [02:27.08]Cause I ain't playin niggaz'll run up in here and shoot up this sh*t [02:30.40]Stick yo' a** up niggaz'll find the loot in your kicks [02:32.81]Bunch of triple-cross niggaz just New York niggaz [02:36.01]Lift you off your feet when they was just talkin with you [02:38.76]Some of these dudes the Feds be on em you knew em for years [02:42.00]Be the type when you walk in a pub they offer you beers [02:44.83]That ain't gangsta niggaz is up North with tatted tears [02:47.51]Your name's on the affadavit you ratted kid [02:50.62]Faggot-a** niggaz that be scared to do they bids [02:53.54]F**k you we run you out of N Y you can't live [02:56.50]Got your quiet niggaz that relocated down South [02:58.73] [02:59.26]Comin back to floss then you got the jealous loudmouths [03:02.25]All of a sudden we got Crips and Bloods D T 's [03:04.38] [03:05.19]Runnin round quick to split your mug it's ea-sy to score [03:07.80] [03:08.87]But it's hard to get the sh*t off [03:10.89]Niggaz fightin over hundred sales jump in the car and drive off [03:13.98]When the fiend come around the block happy as hell [03:16.84]Niggaz mad cause they ain't get a piece of that sale [03:20.02]Cutthroat connivers universal ghetto survivors [03:23.49]Go to any hood that's live and make it liver [03:26.07]A lot of niggaz scheamin some real some niggaz frontin [03:28.92]But I'm a big dreamer so watch me come up with somethin [03:31.38] [03:31.92]New York New York