[Lyrics originally transcripted by Jimmy Dyna & etze]
[Verse 1: Angelo Campanioni]
Let's take a trip to the far side
In black shoes, troops to group on the stomp
In the uncivilized island of New York
Where the criminals run the project development to drug spots
I be sleeping through the screams and rapid fire shots
My block consists of multiple juvenile offenders and their crews
I'm telling you
Even precincts get dibbs on these kids making pigs peep this
Operation Safe Home ain't sh**
Giuliani got these perpetrating housing cops on their dicks
Now ain't this a b**h?
My main man ?? got a warrant and his end's making grands up outside the tenement
Damn Sam, I couldn't understand what the black women and the black men scam
The diagnostic, agonistic mystic stays spliffing
When I kick the urban gift of gab
Baby mothers and their baby dads
Spending long-a**ed days and night-time on the a-venue
Of Frederick Douglas through to Malcolm X
Pa** 155th to the 25th
Meanwhile to get the buckwild, don't give a f**
Step to uptown and get stuck, n***a what?
[Chorus]
Living in the city that's full of debris
Trynna maintain
Struggling through rough terrain (ruffturrain)
But i move on
As the world transforms stay strong
It's the norm [gnome?] it's the riders on the storm..
[Verse 2: Barron Ricks]
Harlem's militant citizens
Since the civiler? even civilians have appeared with weapons
Automatic guns and shards, spears?
Each ??? carry switchblades for jaws of jealous broads
Who ??wear????? name earrings and chains
But things ain't changed a bit
Pataki throwing parties won't restore the economic deficit
What about my n***a Rich?
Up here there's prisoners who lost careers cause crooked police officers didn't get a share
Oh yeah, you're on court camera severely beaten
In the sitbox standing and acting ill-mannered
Seem broken down ??? from premature case delay
My (Mind?) maze will leave you based?
Pipes and ashtrays roam [former?] lab base
Fiending for crumbs probably ? properly?
Finding resonant crack vials
Now let your satellite dish drift
The born live to perish
Whether it's to get promoted or demerit everybody exits
I still proceed to support my family
Peace to all my homies locked
Three hot, two napping rotten co*ks
[Chorus]
Living in the city that's full of debris
Trynna maintain
Struggling through rough terrain (ruffturrain)
But i move on
As the world transforms stay strong
It's the norm [?] it's the riders of the storm...
[Verse 3: Angelo Campanioni]
Don't give a brother any reason to co*k back
Them enemy react hard way
Tooting? hard, straying from the figures
Acting like a b**h? within
So they begin a sympathy? worse than your crew
And if they're going to hell they're gonna take your black a** too
b**hes be scheming on these n***as like Venus
That's why i exercise (pan?)oramic...eyes, no lie
In-inflicting terror in your area
Urinating while you moan [?] by the elevator, waiting
You see that the ??? perpetrating are your next-door neighbours
Please be on your best behaviour
When you're coming through my projects after night
For the cargo's thicker this year? [for the car go ….. sh**?]
So beware
Of the diabolical wolf [rough?] crew, what?