New York (ya Out There?)

[from the movie _Wildstyle_

If you was born in New york City let me hear say "You know that"!

YOU KNOW THAT

Aiyyo once upon a rhyme where the scenery sets you see stress

Streets a matter of life and death no regrets

Life's a test strife wit special effects

Neighbourhood's full of reps cities are projects

Where the young cadets get stripes from the vets

And comrades quest to be the next, to finess

Collect debts and select bets with death threats

Object - Chedder, better your total net

Where trends are set from ways to express the outfits

Friends get wet tryin' to make ends connect

Avenues to check, boulevards to sweat

The smell of gunsmoke more common than cigarettes

WE GOT clicks for wreck

WE LIKE Pits for pets

WE GOT Giants and Jets, the Knicks, Yanks and Mets

WE LIKE much respect and sex extra wet

And High-Tech dialect you ain't catch yet

(The Bronx

Ya out there?

No doubt

Brooklyn

ya out there)

[Rakim]

Aiyyo, we got blocks and glocks with

big shots with big knots and big props

yo this is where the bullshit stops

where herbs get got

if you snitch you get shot

we get down and leave the town in a state of shock

WE GOT dangerous hang out spots and slick cops

place called Riker's Island where kids get locked

a lotta gear to rock with blocks of clothes shops

styles are top notch, this is the place to buy

so bust the box the radio station is hot

ease your mind staring at skylines from rooftops

flip scripts for chips

and new Whips of the lot

quick to call a shot, pollitic with thick plots

and eh, Carnegie niggers a see what we got

to make