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Streets Of New York - Ft. Nas And Rakim
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Alicia Keys
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[Nas] (Alicia Keys)
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Nasty, yeah, yeah (New York, New York)
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Hey, yo, black it's time again,
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Yeah, yeah (New York, New York)
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Come here, yeah, yeah (New York, New York)
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Hey, yo black, it's time
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[Nas]
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If you knew my streets
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You would know all everybody talk about is who got beef,
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Who snitchin', who told police,
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who came home, who still gone, who rest in peace.
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Now they killin' over music, money, not drugs; rap replaced it.
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Cuz thugs with no brains got no patience
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New jacks I pistol whip 'em with the funky rhythm I be kickin'
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Musician and flatten composition
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A pain, I'm like Saddam Hussein
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Still alive lookin' at his dead children's burnt remains
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I burnt the game, learnt you lames a new lesson
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Your crew's soft man, y'all need some new weapons
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The P's breathe warriors and skullies and timmies
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Around mixed, spics, niggaz and giddies
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From my ghetto kings in deep thought we don't blink
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But don't think we wastin' our time
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It's a New York state of mind
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(Alicia Keys)
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New York, New York, New York,
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New York City, whoa-oh-oh-oh
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New York, New York, New York,
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New York City, baby
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It's like a jungle out here, so much struggle out here
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And my dreams still unphased, greed's the cousin of death
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Always feels like a race against father time,
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In the streets of New York
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(New York state of mind, New York state of mind)
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All I see is street hos, and bullet holes in our peoples.
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Only crime fills the brain
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It's like I'm going insane
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The revolution has to start, don't waste no time
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In the streets of New York
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(New York state of mind, New York state of mind)
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C'mon
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New York, New York, New York, New York, ohh, state of mind (New York City)
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New York, New York, New York, New York, ohh, state of crime (New York City)
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New York, New York, New York, New York, ohh, big dreams (New York City)
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New York, New York, New York, New York, ohh, big schemes
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Oh, it's like the game
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Just ain't the same
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Baby thugs and girls with no shame
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Can't get away, get away, epidemic plague
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Ev'ry hood in, every state
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Don't have no reasons cuz relief is hard to find
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In the streets of New York (New York state of mind)
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In the streets of New York (New York state of mind)
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In the streets of New York (New York state of mind)
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In the streets of New York (New York state of mind)
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[Rakim]
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I'm from the home of a million legends and trend settin'
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A lot of footsteps to follow, I been steppin'
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Mind stressin', tryin' to find a record crime shreddin'
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Time precious, I ain't had rest since nine-eleven
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I live fast, hustle like today is my last
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I get cash, the struggle's like a day on the Ave.
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Crack bein' raw, gats squeezin off
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Manhattan squeezin' off, from cats who tease with war
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The eve of the Apocalypse, evil keep movin' politics
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Every block is at risk, the metropolitan metropolis.
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The opposite of Liza Minelli and Frank Sinatra
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Alicia Keys, Nas and Ra, the gangsta's opera
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So New York City walk with me, talk gritty
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It's up to us New York, it's our city
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Here the man come with the anthem, hands up
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It's time, the thrill is back New York, let's stand up
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[Alicia Keys]
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New York, New York, New York,
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New York City, whoa-oh-oh-oh
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New York, New York, New York,
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New York City, baby
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New York, New York, New York,
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New York City, whoa-oh-oh-oh
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New York, New York, New York,
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New York City, baby
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