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yeah, yeah. Welcome to the Empire State. ...rlem World (Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City) ...I bring em to Baltimore in the Fo...e if I gotta get em to Florida ...I ain't hard to find you catch me f...Next to spike and the pen left to write ...t I brought hammers to the fight ...But we from New York City, right Cam? [C...Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City ...here's nothing left to shape up ...Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City ...o in the ankle, two to just spank you ...re, ask Mase he ran to Atlanta ... life do, make want to mold the cycle ...I'm from 101, west to Hunt 40th, this shi...Cause New York'll miss me if I'm l...gh chips stacked up to make a bitch to back up ...d, I grip that snub to hit that thug ...at rich black thugs to get that love ... man, I ain't going nowhere

yeah, yeah. Welcome to the Empire State....rlem World (Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City)...I bring em to Baltimore in the Fo...e if I gotta get em to Florida...I ain't hard to find you catch me f...Next to spike and the pen left to write...t I brought hammers to the fight...But we from New York City, right Cam? [C...Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City...here's nothing left to shape up...Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City...o in the ankle, two to just spank you...re, ask Mase he ran to Atlanta... life do, make want to mold the cycle...I'm from 101, west to Hunt 40th, this shi...Cause New York'll miss me if I'm l...gh chips stacked up to make a bitch to back up...d, I grip that snub to hit that thug...at rich black thugs to get that love... man, I ain't going nowhere

'Till I come into New York town ...People going down to the ground ...Building going up to the sky. ...Wintertime in New York town ...Walk around with nowhere to go ... could freeze right to the bone ...I froze right to the bone ...New York Times said it was t...I swung on to my old guitar ...Got on the stage to sing and play ...harmonica job begun to play ...inally got a job in New York town ...don't take too long to find out ...I rambled out of New York town ...So long New York

you're scared to go to war ...it's nowhere to hide, nowhere to run ...enough to rush amps ...How dare you try to represent New York fuckin City ...Always tryin to get shit I never ha...listenin to they walkman(e) ...talkin the New York fuckin slang ...In the streets of New York ...n I add more shells to the mags ...Allow me to dabble ...Shabazz is here to cause panic ... fuckin madman born to the planet ...Sendin niggas to the pearly gates ...in snakes heads off to earn me a salary ...Get a crew and try to surround me ...and send ya asses to King's County ...Allow me to explain my brain in

s.' But didn't need to believe it. The onliest sound I believed was the train pulling out, heard from 'bout 6 blocks away. That was an all night sound. Smooth not chatter. The noise was too noisy. I mean noisier than noise had to be. Noisier than the splash sound of the shore upon the roar of a 757 taking the summer route. Upon mom vex cause little kids don't listen. Noise bigger than blockbuster videos playing in the next room at the 4am matinee and the phone...that was just noise. I mean noisier than noise should be. Not ear deafening, mind numbing, mentally crushing, membrane sloshing noise. Keithie and his boys walked and talked shit nights but it was always distinct, not chatter.. 'n' jersey girls didn't giggle at the freaks, 'talianos sucking Corona bottles making crashes fill the street, never plugged the void of my nights because the void was silence. Over in Bushwick, the ice cream man pulled his truck over while, shall we say, he got his popsickle sucked. He pulled over his truck but the song kept on, all day, all night. The song means the ice cream guy's gettin' some - it don't even mean ice cream. 'Cause they hear the song and there's no guy selling ice cream from the truck. 'Sides, who got money to be giving kids every time they hear the song woven between the sounds of car horns and latin rhythms. And the ice cream guy gets death threats. Gotta get me a token, make the rumble of the ‘A' my lullaby. Gotta escape to the womb of my room. I never believed in New York nights. I never slept in Manhattan before. 21 years, 16 by the shore. It may have taken a while to get used to the silence, the absence of sound through night at my home but I've never slept in Manhattan before. It hurts. It is hurting my head as I write this. It is making my mind squeeze itself through a tiny doorway onto a massive stage where sound is disconnected from action. Each render themselves tiles in the mosaic. Pretty is the picture from far away. Gotta get me a token, make the rumble of the ‘A' my lullaby. Gotta escape to the womb of my room. I never believed in New York nights. Each tone drifts against the next with nowhere it would rather be. No desire of dominance, no call to signify nothing. Gotta get me a token, make the rumble of the ‘A' my lullaby. Gotta escape to the womb of my room. I never believed in New York nights.

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