in, kid, here comes the tracks...From the heart to the head to the pen to the wax...And then to the store and the video channel...I'm not the Black Crows but I'm...When I chill with the fellas and I watch the Knicks...s like Judge Wapner in the court...I'm like New York in the winter cause I take no sho...Gimme the mic and 4 minutes a...of my friends clock the ends so I'm down wi...t lookin' more like the Sea Hag...Here's the pun and then some, ...ee, I'm sick of all the beefin' and the riffin'...From the hype and the pipe and the cocaine sniffin'...Walk around the way robotic...vin' life fast like the last of the Mohicans...I'm not new to this, but you al...If I watch the base then I be watc...So pick up the phone and call your...ke ends but I'm not in it for the money...I hang out with the honeys to pass the time...And I hang out with the homies to bust a rh...I draw the line at actin' dumb

oklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca...I'm the new Sinatra, and since ...I used to cop in Harlem, all of my D...Catch me in the kitchen like a Simm...New York...Now you're in New York (New York!)...make you feel brand new...Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York...Catch me at the X with O.G. at a Ya...Dude I made the Yankee hat more fam...Welcome to the melting pot, corner...ica Bambata home of the hip-hop... stories, out there in it naked...or Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley... Liberty, long live the World Trade...Long live the Kingdom, I'm from the Empire State that's...New York...Now you're in New York...make you feel brand new...Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York...The sidelines is, lined...e worse, don't bite the apple leaf...Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in style...End of the winter gets cold, en vogue...sin, it's a pity on the wind...ood girls gone bad, the city's filled with ...Hail Mary to the city, you're a virg...u, life starts when the church end...chool, graduated to the high life... stars, addicted to the limelight...The city never sleeps, ...New York...Now you're in New York...make you feel brand new...Let's hear it for New York, New York,...New York...One hand in the air for the big city...No place in the world that could co...Put your lighters in the air...New York...Now you're in New York...make you feel brand new...Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York

New York, New York: big city of d...And everything in New York ain't always what i...y law, and I'm from the Dogg Pound ...It's the incredible, the lyrical ...ch me chillin' like the winter ...Up against the number one contende...To the average motherfucke...l ready to put work in ...s and turn to shoot the first nigga smirkin...n' hos lives empty; the invincible emcee ...New York, New York: big city of d...And everything in New York ain't always what i...y law, and I'm from the Dogg Pound ...New York, New York: big city of d...And everything in New York ain't always what i...y law, and I'm from the Dogg Pound ...seless; oh, you got the juice? I squeeze yo...The barbaric, versatile...So how the fuck you inherit my...Now, out the clear blue sky, I c...Tonight's the night for me to rip...Catch me in the pitch black path ...I sit and let the sick thought pass t...The highest in intellect; try connectin' with the written ...Now they faced with the forbidden, vocally ...To explore new terrain, then remain unseen throughout the war ...The cocoa complexion emcee with the slow flow ...akes it to you from the do' ...' emcees like picks the deadliest lyricist ...New York, New York: big city of d...And everything in New York ain't always what i...y law, and I'm from the Dogg Pound ...New York, New York: big city of d...And everything in New York ain't always what i...y law, and I'm from the Dogg Pound ...an't none fuck with the DPGs ... none can fuck with the DPGs ...ABC the DPGs ...In ways that make emcees stop in daylight ...I'm the deadliest emcee you wanna see on the streets

Rambling out of the wild west ...Leaving the towns I love best ...'Till I come into New York town ...eople going down to the ground ...uilding going up to the sky. ...Wintertime in New York town ...The wind blowing snow a...uld freeze right to the bone ...I froze right to the bone ...New York Times said it was the coldest winter in seventeen years ...I landed up on the downtown side: ...In one of them coffee-houses on the block ...Got on the stage to sing and p...The man there said he l...I finally got a job in New York town ...In a bigger place, big...Even joined the Union and paid my d...So one morning when the sun was warm ...I rambled out of New York town ...And heated out for the western skies ...So long New York

oklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca...I'm the new Sinatra, and, since...I used to cop in Harlem, all of my D...Catch me in the kitchen like a Simm...Now I am in New York, concrete jung...Now you're in New York...make you feel brand new...The lights will inspire...Let's hear it for New York, New York,...New York...Catch me at the X with OG at a Yank...S***, I made the Yankee hat more fam...Welcome to the melting pot, corner...bataa s***, home of the hip-hop... stories, out there in it naked...or Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley... Liberty, long live the World Trade...Long live the King yo, I'm from the Empire St. that's...ut of bounds quick, the sidelines is...e worse, don't bite the apple, Eve...Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in style...End of the winter gets cold, en vogue...sin, it's a pity on the wind...ood girls gone bad, the city's filled with ...Hail Mary to the city, you're a virg...u, life starts when the church end...chool, graduated to the high life... stars, addicted to the limelight...The city never sleeps, ...One hand in the air for the big city...No place in the world that could co...Put your lighters in the air

oklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca...I'm the new Sinatra, and, since...I used to cop in Harlem, all of my D...Catch me in the kitchen like a Simm...I am in New York, concrete jung...Now you're in New York...make you feel brand new...Let's hear it for New York, New York,...New York...Catch me at the X with OG at a Yank...Shit, I made the Yankee hat more fam...Welcome to the melting pot, corner...bataa shit, home of the hip-hop... stories, out there in it naked...or Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley... Liberty, long live the World Trade...Long live the King yo, I'm from the Empire St. that's...ut of bounds quick, the sidelines is...e worse, don't bite the apple, Eve...Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in style...End of the winter gets cold, en vogue...sin, it's a pity on the wind...ood girls gone bad, the city's filled with ...Hail Mary to the city, you're a virg...u, life starts when the church end...chool, graduated to the high life... stars, addicted to the limelight...The city never sleeps, ...One hand in the air for the big city...No place in the world that could co...Put your lighters in the air

There's a pale winter moon in the sky coming through ...And the park is laid out li...my heart melts like the snow...And the bells of New York City tell me not to...With the ghosts of many life...s I can always hear the sound...Of the bells of New York City singing all ar...And whatever is in between that I call...With the street lamp light to illuminate the gray...And the bells of New York City calling me to ...The bells of New York City calling me to

If the sky above you

New York New York big city of dreams ...And everything in New York ain't always what i...y law, and I'm from the Dogg Pound ...It's the incredible, the lyrical ...ch me chillin' like the winter ...Up against the number one contende...To the average motherfucke...l ready to put work in ...s and turn to shoot the first nigga smirkin...' hoes lifes empty, the invincible MC ...useless, oh you got the juice? I squeeze yo...The barbaric, versatile...So how the fuck you inherit my...Now, out the clear blue sky, I c...Tonight's the night for me to rip...Catch me in the pitch black path ...I sit and let the sick thought pass t...The highest in intellect, try connectin' with the written ...Now they faced with the forbidden, vocally ...To explore new terrain, then remain unseen, throughout the war ...The cocoa complexion MC with the slow flow ...akes it to you from the do' ...tin MC's like picks the deadliest lyricist ...an't none fuck with the DPG'z ... none can fuck with the DPG'z ...ABC the DPG'z ...In ways that make MC's stop in daylight ...I'm the deadlies MC you want to see on the streets

owlin' at midnight, winter creepin' in ...s car's headed down the wrong track again ...Gonna get in my mercury and drive around the world ...Around the world, all around the world ...She's up in new york city tryin' to make...She's up in new york city tryin' to be a...owlin' at midnight, winter creepin' in ...s car's headed down the wrong track again ...s car's headed down the wrong track again

You'd be so nice by the fire...While the breeze on high, san...er stars chilled by the winter...er stars chilled by the winter

hat's somethin' for the DJ's to cut up...The incomparable, SK, the B-I-Z...Do the beatbox and rock an...But right about now in 2003...ta make one to rock the party...For the ladies, for the fellas...And when you hear the song it's really co...o out like gorillas in cages...I need the party people to hel...But you know, on the tables I've been do...d, I've been around the world...I'm from New York, like Earl the Pearl...But since I live in Washington I'm Reds...But I don't buy the bar, I buy a Red Bu...sip and look at all the chicks that's, beau...Listen to B, I am the...You can do the hokey pokey or even the wop...A zunga zeng to the break of day...Listen to the brother with the rhythm rhymes I dis...Whether you from New York or L.A....You listenin' to the B-I-Z every day... class clown, never the teacher's pet...y right now I'ma do the alphabet...I've gotten the mic guaranteed like...I'm old school New Yorker like my name...Long Island, New Jersey, and I'm on the scene

She's the best that I have ev...Gives a dollar to the man on the Street...The only time I'm free...Like a flower in the rain...shine breaking on a winter's day ...The only time I'm free ...ight find her where the children meet...You might find her in a poor man's town...New York City down to New Orleans...California and the world around...The only time I'm free...Like a flower in the rain...shine breaking on a winter's day...The only time I'm free ...The only time I'm free...Like a flower in the rain...shine breaking on a winter's day...The only time I'm free

The angel had to unders...Which caused the man to stand there ...Despite the winter's cold ...hile he stood there in that trance ...The angel read his soul...It seemed the man was not always ...The man he had become ...The man had been born t...And raised in the midwest ...Man was made in the image of god ...Of course, he was the first one in his class ...And in his eighteenth summ...And at college in all his studies ...n he tried his hand in theater ...He got the lead in the senior play ... for three years on the football team ...He was, the star quarterback ...d there he also met the girl ...He had the perfect life ...They were wed in a ceremony quite gr...Then they moved to new york ...In a dream they seemed...In a 1920's art-deco s...fter they had moved in ...ey arrived early at the hospital ...On the delivery date ...The father was taking n...ile waiting outside the delivery room ...octors were rushing in ...Then in an effort to consol...But from the way the child felt limp in his arms ...The doctor then gave the prognosis ...The father only too wel...The child had been cut ...The damage was now irre...If the child even learned ...nd with those words the father felt ...And he stumbled for the words to express ...The tearing inside of h...If man is made in god's image ...Nothing of god in this" ...d then he asked for the child ...To be placed in a state run home ...after he had signed the papers ...And in this world he found...every year he'd add new parts ...a man walking among the tombs ...they could only see the flaws in others ...this final glimpse, the angel stepped away ...And the man shook himself o...And the angel himself felt ...And as the prayer flew to his ...The angel did decide ...To carefully follow the old man ...The gift of a more symp...The frailty of childhoo...But whispers in the winter's wind ...As once again the spirits weave ...And as the snow comes gently d...oul intent to reach the ground ...To cover scars the world still feels ...For as men invest in money ...And professors in what they know ...God invests in mercy ...Like winter invests in snow

keep it, cause it's the best secret ...In a Lex watchin Kathi...ctions are one with the seasons ...ezin - executioner, winter time I rock a fur ...City lights spark a New York night ...y scrotum, manifest the "Do or Die" slogan ...My niggaz roll in ten M3's ... and never miscount the shells my gun hold ...lin out, every hole in the slum ...ht like blood money in a pimp's cum ...Currency is made in trust of the Messiah ...ust be buggin' out, new to my shit, home on...This be the drama, I'm a pause ...In a sentence, paragra..., we're looking out the sky's moonroof ...Yo the system wants the coon's noose, hang ...filled up, it's off the hook while I ...In the basement - chilling on the via with Mumia ...rin chrome - I told the judge snakes slithe...Yo the time is wastin', I use the mind elevation ...Psychic evaluation, the foulest nation ...While the real McCoy dopefien...But every night the gat's fired, and ev...I still remain the mack flyest in the phat Kani, it's -- ...Just the killer in me, slash drug deal...Bring the G's and the D's roll, they can'...Why shoot the breeze about it, wh... are routed, toward the peasy haired brick ...Instead of the fake medallions ...ch niggaz transport in thousands ...s is chopped, watch the cameras in the ceilings ...Peelin' off in the Lex Jeep, technique...hem sex niggaz with the tecs you blessed, w...es to mine, take it in blood ... wack MC's" (repeat in background to fade)...East New York