Skip to content
Lyric
Dive
Public playlists
My playlists
Search
Sign in
IHNY
Wiki
Popularity · Low
+
Original
0
0
Listen
YouTube
1
2
3
0:00 / 0:00
Loading YouTube player...
Lyrics offset
Synced
Lyrics
Original
Translation
Bilingual
Before Broadway, it was Lenape Lane
Had a rear wall in the block before the stock exchange
Your barrio was Italian 'fore the poppies came
Now the poppies reign
Ain't tryna be biased, ain't said shit about the Irish
I just, I'm sorry for the topic change
There's been a lot of change
Some good, some bad, but it's not the same
In New York in the 80s, what you got it came
From the Cali cartel when you coppin' 'caine
In New York in the 70s, the only remedy
Punk hip-hop and give the veterans some ketamine
Disco, get dope for pedalin'
Shorty green, right off the bus from out of town on 42nd Street
42'S, come, uh, and Broadway
Look
I love you, New York
I hate you, New York
You gon' make or break me, New York
I can't shake it from here
Can't just abort the mission
Born and bred in
Can't just resort to dippin'
So here I am
Catch me on the park bench, beer in hand, driftin'
Felt like next week, it's the 90s, G's
New York go fast, that's how the time it be
Now we in '93, came out rhymin' on beat
Before I could speak
I went nice up on Westside
Family got stuck with a grimy MC
I can't find me a reason, but I'm finally free
'Cause I'm a New Yorker, so they respect me
Remember doin' all sorts of shit to get weed
Go all the way up top, used to fuckin' cop
If you know, you know, if you don't, you ain't from my block
And that goes for any block in the city
Give any cop any pity, you kiddin' me? Not piggy
Most of y'all bridge and tunnel, not from the city
Look, I love this city, I hate this city
But the hate gon' make me take the city
Make it mine, that's a goal for anyone from the city at any time
Was in second grade, Uncle Jackie end of the day
Talkin' 'bout what he saw, who he could and couldn't save
In the kitchen hidin' behind the counter in a daze
That shit put me in a place, been into this day
That goes for everybody from the city in a different way
Huh, shit
This fuckin' city
This fuckin' city
I love you, New York
I hate you, New York
You gon' make or break me, New York
I can't shake it from here
Can't just abort the mission
Born and bred in
Can't just resort to dippin'
So here I am
Catch me on the park bench, beer in hand, driftin'
I love you, New York
I hate you, New York
I love you, New York
I hate you, New York