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Jay-Z
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[Jay-Z] Turn the motherfucking music up
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[Cam'Ron] Just Blaze, man. You owe me nigga
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[Jay-Z] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Welcome to the Empire State.
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Home of the World Trade. Birthplace of Michael Jordan.
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Home of Biggie Smalls. Roc-A-Fella head quaters.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Killa Cam, Young Hov is definitely in the building
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Brooklyn, Harlem World (Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City)
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Stand the fuck up!
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[Jay-Z]
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I'm a B.K. brawler
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Marcy projects hallway loiterer
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Pure coke copper, get your order up
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I bring em to Baltimore in the Ford Explorer
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It's gonna cost you more if I gotta get em to Florida
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Rucka game attender
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With the bent pole on the sidewalk with the tin plates on the fender
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I ain't hard to find you catch me frontin center
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At the Knick game, big chain and all my splender
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Next to spike and the pen left to write
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I own Madison Square, catch me at the fight
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But damn once again if you pan left at the ice
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If you the man that write cheques with the hand that don't write
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I go off the head when I'm rambling on the mic
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And I go off the feds when I'm srambling at night
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And if its off the set I brought hammers to the fight
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But we from New York City, right Cam? [Cam: Ya damn right]
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[Chorus, Juelz Santana]
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It's the home of 9-11, the place of the lost towers
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We still banging, we never lost power, tell em
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Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City
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Why'all fuckin with BK's banger and Harlem's own gangster
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Now that's danger there's nothing left to shape up
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Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City
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[Cam'Ron]
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Yo, there's a war going on outside no man is safe from
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It don't matter if you three feet or eight-one
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You'll get ate from me, nine and straight blown
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Wig split, melon cracked, all that on day one
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Carry eight guns, two in the trunk
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Two in the waist, two in the ankle, two to just spank you
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You can jam with them jammers, blam with them blammers
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It's hot here, ask Mase he ran to Atlanta
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You think we know what life do, make want to mold the cycle
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Drinkers they so delightful, blinging with so much ice
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In front of sparks, body cops Dilano
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Block away watch by Gotti and Girvano
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It's la costra nostra, someone close approach ya
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They'll toast ya gopher, bread loaf with shofer
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Old coke they raise up and snort, blayze up ya fort
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Jay puff shine, cases was caught
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Midnight pick fights, they love a victim
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Watch him fore he watch you, Killa
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[Chorus]
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[Cam'Ron]
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I'm from 101, west to Hunt 40th, this shit is live
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Fifth-floor, 56, you know the zip, district five
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You're on 22nd, you from two-one
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That's on Lennox, 7th ave was news one
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[Jay-Z]
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Coverage I synethestry
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Got rise from defending me
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Cause New York'll miss me if I'm locked in the penitentary
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The judge said "Is this that thug, from the kit kat club?"
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But I got enough chips stacked up to make a bitch to back up
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[Cam'Ron]
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Killa, I pinch that bud, I grip that snub to hit that thug
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Lay up in a pitch black tug,
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You lookin at rich black thugs to get that love
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And we won't stop til I get back blood
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Holla at em Hov
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[Jay-Z]
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I'm from Flushing, Marcy, Notia, Myrtle and Park
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Niggas'll drive by in the day, murder you in the dark
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That's why the Johnny gun I'm holding
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Wet niggas up like the johnny-pump is open
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Homie, I play hard
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[Chorus]
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[Cam'Ron]
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Y'all niggas man, why'all can't fuck around man
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It's the ROC bitch, Killa, my nigga Jigga, Sigel, Beans
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Diplomats man, holla, Dash
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Get the fuck off our dicks
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I own this shit right now man, I ain't going nowhere
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