[Produced by Heavy D, Da Internz & Salaam Remi]
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[Intro: Super Cat]
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Hes the heartbeat of the people
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The ghetto people, and when I say ghetto people
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The people who cannot afford to go to big concert
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Some of these people do not even have TV, so they cant afford cable
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Some of them can afford a radio
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So the only thing they can listen to is the music
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People the ghetto, people from the projects, street people
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Hortical ghetto youth who know what it is to sing about suffering and reality
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[Sample from “Dance Inna New York” by Super Cat]
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New York girl, dem a mad over we
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New York girl, dem a mad over we
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New York girl, dem a mad over we
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New York girl, dem a mad over we
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[Chorus: Sample from “Dance Inna New York” by Super Cat (Nas)]
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Nas di don Nas di don Nas di don Nas di don
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Nas di don Nas di don Nas di don, dance
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Inna New York City-city, New York City-city (YEAH!)
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(YEAH!) New York City-city, New York City-city
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[Verse 1: Nas]
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Smoking a escubano, guzzle my second bottle
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Hope I dont catch a hommo, grossing our net
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Simultaneously making me climb higher
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Heinous crimes behind me, search but cant find me
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Fuck sadness, had this been you having this lavish
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Habitual happiness, at me you wouldnt look backwards
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You would have sex on condominium roof decks
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So anyone move next, Ill hit you with two TECs
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Rocking Roberto Cavalli, no shirt on, convertible Mazi
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My Colombiana mommy riding beside me
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Every tat mean something, thats my word on my body
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Ill have to lean something with that Mossberg shotty
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My niggas is ignant, put lead in your pigment
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Just cause yall was mad at all the years I was getting it
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In 97 the six, 98 the Bentley
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Now its the Ghost Phantom, and yall cant stand him but
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[Chorus: Super Cat sample (Nas)]
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Nas di don Nas di don Nas di don Nas di don
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Nas di don Nas di don Nas di don, dance
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Inna New York City-city, New York City-city
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New York City-city, New York City-city (Yeah)
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[Verse 2: Nas]
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Army jacket swag, army jacket green and black
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With the square top pocket that snaps, where the gas at?
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Pass that, not you, you hold cracks in your ass crack
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I never did that, my socks where my stash was at
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Yo, I used to listen to that Red Alert and Rap Attack
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I fell in love with all that poetry I mastered that
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Cutting school where Preme team and Fat Cat was at
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Future not crystal clear yet, Baccarat
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Now Im the one who repping Queens
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Way beyond your wildest dreams
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Bottles on bottles with sparklers surround my team
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That long cash get the baddest bitches out they jeans
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Twenty years in this game, looking seventeen
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I dont lean: no codeine, promethazine
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I just blow green, pick which bitch to bless the king
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Although hes on to another chapter
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Heavy D gave this beat to Salaam for me to rap to, raaaahhh
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[Chorus: Super Cat sample]
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Nas di don Nas di don Nas di don Nas di don
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Nas di don Nas di don Nas di don, dance
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Inna New York City-city, New York City-city
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New York City-city, New York City-city
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[Verse 3: Nas]
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Yeah, yeah
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New York is like an Island, a big Rikers Island
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The cops be out wilding, all I hear is sirens
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Its all about surviving, same old two-step
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Try to stay alive when they be out robbing
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I been out rhyming since born knowledge
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Like prophet Muhammad said the ink from a scholar
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Worth more than the blood of a martyr, so Ima
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Keep it on til I see a billion dollars
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
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Love model chocha, mami pop it like she ‘pose to
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Eyes red shot like Im never sober
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Big time smoker, Indonesian doja
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Mini mes you can hold up
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Before you end up wet up from my soldier
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Don shit, under fire I remain on some calm shit
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This for every ghetto in the hood
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Nas the Don, Super Cat the Don Dada, understood
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[Chorus: Super Cat sample]
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Nas di don Nas di don Nas di don Nas di don
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Nas di don Nas di don Nas di don, dance
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Inna New York City-city, New York City-city
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New York City-city, New York City-city, New York…
