Welcome to my city, let me show you how we live up/ take you to the hood, you guna see just how we give it/ welcome to my city, welcome to my city man/(2x)

The bright lights they will blind you/ we grinding for dough, so should I remind you/ you already know that if you owe, somebody will find you/ I timed you, beyond futuristic, so far ahead of the pack, I am now behind you/ I got my block on my back, single vertebrae are breaking now/ city on my shoulders I'm too close, nobody take it down/ I'm born and raised by concrete the pot holes and corner stores/ the only ones that thrive here are the ones that show they want it more/ a nigga from the hood, but every single day I'm loving/ even straight A students get to grindin for the fuck of it/ the block parties poppin when the cold finally lay off/ and niggas is at the garden cuz the Knicks made the playoffs/ then we hit the club, its the city that never sleep/ some stay up in the streets to handle whatever beef/ either lifestyle, nigga up all night clappin/ whether its them hammers, or on the floor dancing/

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I Don't know bout you, but my sitting get it poppin! We get this shit rocking! X2
We get it poppin outchear!
we handle it, before you raised a hand to me/ playin cee lo for the green, bumpin dungeon family/ been a an outcast, butt now a niggas a big boy/ 3 stacks in my pocket and my engine makin big noise/ hit a cypher on the corner sharpen skillz and help to past the time/shit on block drinkin where all the roaches and the rats reside/ holla at a Shorty if she stops, but never chase um/ I swear man, we got the baddest women in the nation/ fattest asses in the world/ shoe game major/ hustle hard all day/ my kick game krazy/ party like no tomorrow, kuz we promised one/ yea your city kool, but I'm my city get it poppin son.