[00:03.25] Turn the motherfucking music up [00:05.38] Just Blaze, man, you owe me nigga [00:10.99] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, welcome to the Empire State [00:21.05] Home of the World Trade, birthplace of Michael Jordan [00:27.14] Home of Biggie Smalls, Roc-A-Fella headquaters [00:32.24] Ladies and gentlemen, Killa Cam, Young Hov is definitely in the building [00:37.64] Brooklyn, Harlem World [00:40.64] (Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City) [00:42.98] Stand the fuck up! [00:43.54] (Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City) [00:45.11] I'm a B.K. brawler [00:46.67] Marcy projects hallway loiterer [00:49.12] Pure coke copper, get your order up [00:51.32] I bring 'em to Baltimore in the Ford Explorer [00:53.84] But it's gonna cost you more if I gotta get 'em to Florida [00:57.06] Rucker game attender; with the bent parked [00:59.57] On the sidewalk with temp plates on the fender [01:02.79] I ain't hard to find, you catch me front and center [01:05.18] At the Knick game, big chain and all my splender [01:08.22] Next to Spike if you pan left to right [01:10.43] I own Madison Square, catch me at the fight [01:13.28] With Cam, once again if you pan left the device [01:16.28] It be the man that write checks with the hand that don't write [01:19.20] I go off the head when I'm rambling on the mic [01:21.50] And I go off the feds when I'm scrambling at night [01:24.46] And it was, off the set I brought hammers to the fight [01:27.43] But we from New York City, right Cam? (ya damn right) [01:30.56] It's the home of 9-11, the place of the lost towers [01:33.82] We still banging, we never lost power, tell 'em [01:36.75] Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City [01:41.15] Y'all fuckin' with BK's banger and Harlem's own gangster [01:44.98] Now that's danger, there's nothing left to say but [01:48.47] Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City [01:51.66] Yo [01:52.87] Theres a war going on outside no man is safe from [01:56.46] It don't matter if you three feet or eight-one [01:59.42] You'll get eight from the nine-m, straight "blum"! [02:01.71] Wig split, melon cracked, all that on day one [02:05.15] Carry eight guns, two in the trunk [02:07.04] Two on the waist, two in the ankle, two to just spank you [02:10.48] You get jammed with them jammers, blam with them blammers [02:13.05] Hot here, ask Mase he ran to Atlanta [02:16.09] You think we know what life do, Mink on the motor-cycle [02:18.82] Trinkets they so delightful, blinging is so much ice boo [02:22.28] In front of sparks, body Castellano [02:24.43] Block away watched by Gotti and Gravano [02:27.38] It's "La Costa Nostra", someone close approach ya [02:30.45] They'll toast ya gopher, bread loaf your chauffeur [02:33.43] Old coke they raise up and snort, blaze up ya fort [02:36.47] Jay, Puff, Shyne, cases was caught [02:39.37] Midnight pit fights, they love a victim [02:41.65] Watch him fore he watch you, Killa [02:45.27] (Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City) [02:49.96] It's the home of 9-11, the place of the lost towers [02:53.05] We still banging, we never lost power, tell 'em [02:56.36] Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City [03:00.52] Y'all fuckin with BK's banger and Harlem's own gangster [03:04.39] Now that's danger, there's nothing left to say but [03:07.53] Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City [03:12.15] I'm from 101, west a Hun' fortieth, this shit is live [03:15.44] Fifth-floor, fifty-six, you know the zip, district five [03:18.58] You're on 22nd, yet you from two-one [03:21.23] That's on Lennox, 7th ave was news one [03:24.02] Courage I synastry [03:25.34] Got Brafman defending me [03:26.60] 'Cause New York'll miss me if I'm locked in the penitentary [03:29.08] The judge said "Is this that thug, from the kit kat club?" [03:31.87] But I got enough chips stacked up to make a bitch to back up [03:34.82] Killa, I pinch that bud, I grip that snub to hit that thug [03:38.83] Lay up in a pitch black tub [03:40.52] You lookin' at rich black thugs that get that love [03:43.11] And it won't stop 'til I get back Blood [03:45.59] Holla at 'em Hov [03:46.31] I'm from Flushing, Marcy, Nostrand, Myrtle and Park [03:48.83] Niggas'll drive by in the day, murder you in the dark [03:51.97] That's why the Johnny gun I'm holding [03:54.05] Wet niggas up like the johnny-pump is open [03:56.32] Homie, I play hard [03:57.62] It's the home of 9-11, the place of the lost towers [04:00.88] We still banging, we never lost power, tell 'em [04:04.39] Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City [04:08.40] Y'all fuckin with BK's banger and Harlem's own gangster [04:12.53] Now that's danger, there's nothing left to say but [04:15.76] Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City [04:22.16] Y'all niggas man, ya'll can't fuck around man [04:26.29] It's the ROC bitch, Killa, my nigga Jigga, Sigel, Beans [04:32.12] Diplomats man, Hoffa, Dash [04:36.88] Get the fuck off our dick, no homo [04:39.28] Pause, this is all I wanted to say for two minutes man [04:42.46] I own this shit right now man, I ain't going nowhere [04:45.14] [05:03.84] (Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City) [05:05.83]