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From New York straight talk, America's best
From New York straight talk, America's best
From New York straight talk, America's best
Yo I'm not new to this I'm true to this, word up, word up
From New York straight talk, America's best

Yo, it doesn't make sense, for you to compete against
This New York vibe that gets your whole body tense
Calm down, listen to a brother who knows
'Cause the rappers out here come up with mad different types of flows

Switch-up, change-up, yo pull the range up
So we can build on this s***, for real that’s how we came up
Used to ride the subway trains back and forth
Now I push an E-Class, four-two-zero of course

Still material gains, make one more aware
Of all the madness and the civil unrest that’s out here
I doubt there, is anyplace more complex
You can get lost in the sauce, New York’ll have you vexed

Who’s next to get served, herbs’ll get knocked off
Burning flammable rappers, is how I get my rocks off
I pop your top off as if you were the bottle
Then I’ll drain all your fluid, you’re better off playing lotto
Bright lights, big city and the dark alleyways
New York we get the money all day everyday

From New York straight talk, America's best
Yo I'm not new to this I'm true to this, word up, word up
From New York straight talk, America's best

True if you can make it out here, you can make it anywhere
That means a lot of rappers, they should stay away from here
'Cause we still care, about the total art form
Niggaz could sell more records but they still can’t flip a live forum

Plus everybody out here ain't talkin' true s*** either
Mad niggaz is fakin' jacks, I don’t like them neither
But the competition keeps me on point
That’s why I lamp in the studio composin' fresh new joints

From the streets, Medina, Manhattan, Staten, P-Lawn
The struggle continues, everybody wants to be on
The rat race, makes this lifestyle fast paced
I've loved it since the days of fat shoelace
Screw face me all you want, but I’m used to it
I’ll never give up rep in New York, I’m true to it

From forty-deuce to Queens, back to East New Yi
We takin' no shorts, and plus we showin' no pity
Bright lights, big city and the dark alleyways
New York, we get the money all day everyday

From New York straight talk
Yo yo I'm not new to this
America's best, word up, word up
From New York straight talk, America's best
Yo I'm not new to this I'm true to this word up, word up
From New York straight talk, America's best

You get bent up, sent up creek, without a paddle
You wanna battle, well I live in New York
So think twice blink twice now your Roley and Lincoln's gone
Don't come into this rap game if you don't belong

You won't be on but for a minute anyway
You're just a scavenger, you don't live this life everyday
Rap is regional, so you can check the demographics
Everybody represent where they live, 'cause s*** is drastic

Confusion, while I'm givin' rappers contusions
And people don't realize that real hip-hop is losing
They wanna shut us down, and I say, "Shut up clown"
'Cause New York is too corrupt and too tough to lay down

And just quit, 'cause MC's out here kick serious lyrics
And I come to you, with my infinite spirit
Not takin' nothin' from your hood or your set
But Gang Starr could be a threat, in New York we rep

That's where it comes from, that's why you're feelin' it
So why suppress it, I'd rather be revealin' it
Bright lights, big city and dark alleyways
New York we get the money all day everyday

From New York straight talk, America's best