Streets Of New York - Kool G Rap/DJ Polo.mp3

[00:04.41]In the streets of new york
[00:06.30]**** fiends are leaning for morphine
[00:08.04]The tv screen followed the homicide scenes
[00:10.98]You live here, you're taking a chance
[00:12.72]So look and i take one glance, there's a man inside an ambulance
[00:16.53]Crowds are getting louder, i wonder how the
[00:18.99]People want to go fight for the white powder
[00:21.66]People hanging in spots
[00:23.01]They waited until the blocks got hot
[00:24.87]And got raided by the cops
[00:26.85]I'll explain the man sleeping in the rain
[00:29.01]His whole life remains inside a bottle of night train
[00:32.10]Another man got his clothes in a sack
[00:34.41]Cause he spent every dime of his rent playing blackjack
[00:37.38]And there's the poor little sister
[00:39.00]She has a little baby daughter
[00:40.68]Named sonya and sonya has pneumonia
[00:42.60]So why's her mother in a club unzipped though?
[00:44.70]Yo that's her job, sonya's mommy is a bar stripper
[00:47.85]Drug dealers drive around looking hard
[00:49.89]Knowing they're sending their brothers and sisters to the graveyard
[00:53.25]Every day is a main event, some old lady limps
[00:56.16]The pushers and pimps eat shrimps
[00:58.38]It gets tiring, the sight of a gun firing
[01:01.05]They must desire for the sound of a siren
[01:04.08]A bag lady dies in an alleyway
[01:06.30]She's seen the last of her days inside the subways
[01:09.06]More and more down the slope, the kid couldn't cope
[01:11.61]So he stole somebody's shit and a gold rope
[01:14.13]Now my son's on the run, he's a wanted one
[01:17.04]Had fun then was done by a shotgun
[01:19.59]Upstairs i cover my ears and tears
[01:21.72]The man downstairs must have drank too many beers
[01:24.81]Cause every day of his life he beats his wife
[01:27.42]Till one night she decides to pull a butcher knife
[01:30.15]Blind man plays the sax
[01:32.28]A tune called he arms on my moms show railroad tracks?many lives are cut short
[01:37.95]That's when you're living
[01:39.39]In the streets of new york
[01:51.18]Baby needs new shoes
[01:53.55]But his papa uses all the money for booze
[01:56.52]A young girl is undressed in the back seat of a caddy
[01:59.25]Calling some man daddy
[02:01.83]Three men slain inside an apartment
[02:04.41]All you could see was the sparks when it darkened
[02:07.20]Daylight broke, cops roll on the scene
[02:09.84]The drug war, daily routine
[02:12.66]Gambling spots, just a poor man's jackpot
[02:15.27]You winning a lot, you get shot
[02:17.76]The drug dealing fanatics
[02:19.56]But you don't want no static
[02:20.94]Cause they got crack addicts with automatics
[02:23.58]Shoot-outs for a desire for territory
[02:25.89]A kid got caught in the crossfire
[02:28.14]A tired mother can't take no more
[02:30.12]She grab the bottle full of sleeping pills and took about 24
[02:33.51]Human beings are laying on the pavement
[02:36.06]Cause they're a part of a mental enslavement
[02:38.67]The cop snipers, little babies in dirty diapers
[02:41.73]This type of life is making you hyper
[02:43.59]People scouting a torched-out building
[02:46.62]And got killed when the cold air filled in
[02:48.84]Is hell really suggested?
[02:51.09]No more persons arrested, a child molested
[02:54.60]A little kid says, "yo
[02:56.58]I got a color tv, cd player and car stereo
[02:59.85]And all i want is a castle
[03:02.19]I also got a .38, don't give me no hassle"
[03:05.22]One kid heads straight for the top
[03:07.77]And gets stopped and popped by a crooked cop
[03:10.38]Look behind you when you walk
[03:12.96]That's how it is in the streets of new york