New York Strait Talk Gang Starr

[00:51.67] "From new york straight talk, america's best"
[01:04.82] "Yo I'm not new to this I'm true to this" "word up!"
[01:07.43] "From new york straight talk... america's best"
[01:12.64] (Guru)
[01:12.86] Yo, it doesn't make sense, for you to compete against
[01:15.57] This new york vibe that gets your whole body tense
[01:17.99] Calm down, listen to a brother who knows
[01:20.49] Cause the rappers out here come up with mad different types of flows
[01:23.72] Switch-up, change-up, yo pull the range up
[01:25.92] So we can build on this shit, for real that's how we came up
[01:28.68] Used to ride the subway trains back and forth
[01:31.08] Now I push an e-class, four-two-zero of course
[01:33.30] Still material gains, make one more aware
[01:35.90] Of all the madness and the civil unrest that's out here
[01:38.86] I doubt there, is anyplace more complex
[01:41.03] You can get lost in the sauce, new york'll have you vexed
[01:43.76] Who's next to get served, herbs'll get knocked off
[01:46.32] Burning flammable rappers, is how I get my rocks off
[01:49.35] I pop your top off as if you were the bottle
[01:51.75] Then I'll drain all your fluid, you're better off playing lotto
[01:54.28] Bright lights, big city and the dark alleyways
[01:56.47] New york we get the money all day everyday
[01:59.36] "From new york straight talk, america's best"
[02:02.87] "Yo I'm not new to this I'm true to this" "word up!"
[02:04.16] "From new york straight talk... america's best"
[02:09.32] (Guru)
[02:09.71] True if you can make it out here, you can make it anywhere
[02:12.45] That means a lot of rappers, they should stay away from here
[02:15.25] Cause we still care, about the total artform
[02:17.68] Niggaz could sell more records but they still can't flip a live forum
[02:20.75] Plus everybody out here ain't talkin true shit either
[02:23.79] Mad niggaz is fakin jacks, I don't like them neither
[02:25.42] But the competition keeps me on point
[02:27.88] That's why I lamp in the studio composin fresh new joints
[02:30.23] From the streets, medina, manhattan, staten, p-lawn
[02:33.18] The struggle continues, everybody wants to be on
[02:35.85] The rat race, makes this lifestyle fast paced
[02:38.73] I've loved it since the days of fat shoelace
[02:40.87] Screwface me all you want, but I'm used to it
[02:43.17] I'll never give up rep in new york, I'm true to it
[02:45.75] From forty-deuce to queens, back to east new yi
[02:48.76] We takin no shorts, and plus we showin no pity
[02:51.66] Bright lights, big city and the dark alleyways
[02:53.85] New york, we get the money all day everyday
[02:56.76] "From new york... straight talk..."
[02:59.32] "Yo. i'm. not. new. to. this"
[03:01.59] "America's best""word up!"
[03:06.23] "From new york straight talk, america's best"
[03:09.75] "Yo I'm not new to this I'm true to this" "word up!"
[03:11.64] "From new york straight talk... america's best"
[03:15.78] (Guru)
[03:16.93] You get bent up, sent up creek, without a paddle
[03:20.12] You wanna battle? well I live in new york
[03:22.64] So think twice blink twice now your roley and lincoln's gone
[03:25.70] Don't come into this rap game if you don't belong
[03:27.68] You won't be on but for a minute anyway
[03:29.57] You're just a scavenger, you don't live this life everyday
[03:32.52] Rap is regional, so you can check the demographics
[03:35.83] Everybody represent where they live, cause shit is drastic
[03:37.42] Confusion, while I'm givin rappers contusions
[03:40.31] And people don't realize that real hip-hop is losing
[03:43.29] They wanna shut us down, and I say, "shut up clown!"
[03:46.21] Cause new york is too corrupt and too tough to lay down
[03:48.33] And just quit, cause mc's out here kick serious lyrics
[03:50.87] And I come to you, with my infinite spirit
[03:53.35] Not takin nothin from your hood or your set
[03:56.12] But gangstarr could be a threat, in new york we rep
[03:58.82] That's where it comes from, that's why you're feelin it
[04:01.78] So why supress it, I'd rather be revealin it
[04:04.49] Bright lights, big city and dark alleyways
[04:06.10] New york we get the money all day everyday
[04:10.23] "From new york straight talk... america's best"
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