Ma$e - When New York Was New York lyrics

[Verse 1] They got me back on the two train Black hoodie, camouflage with my blue 'stang Protect ya neck like it's Wu-Tang [Gold-tech boot] different color [boost rings] Y'all n***as couldn't miss it cause you never had it When I was wearin' fur, you was wearing rabbit Turquoise blue [tiffany,] a n***a back at it And my Teflon got my six pack padded Got a 'matic in my attic, you want me to grab it? p**y just like I thought, n***a you's a f*ggot n***as trippin on the set, this is Harlem at it's best [Pick it] point it at your neck with an Audemar Piguet [Phantom though,] n***a in the game, I'm an animal Ouija board, rap n***a channeling my flows Take a trip to Philly, find the next Amber Rose Put her on a flight tonight, [Huggington or toes?] I'm confused, can't choose, lay 'em [on the rose] n***a got me [crenshawed] talking sign language If they don't talk that, talk nine language .45 fire language, they say misery like company You don't need a Reebok deal to get a pump from me I flash guns, even Puff had to pay me St. Patrick's Day, n***a every bar crazy [Chorus] (Yeah x6) When New York was New York, it sound like this When New York was New York, it sound like this When New York was New York, it sound like this When New York was New York, it sound like this n***a [Verse 2] Freaks know my face, fans know my scars Groupie know my car, fans know my bars [I knew perdico with chico, I'm talking older bar Forfeit-oting,] no emotion, I had no regards n***as know what happen in Manhattan, I get crossed Jump off sides, no coin toss I need no applause, you know what it cost Wide-body eyed, you know the exhaust When you're this fire, n***a you could overcharge Inappropriate to say I'm bossy, n***a I'm a boss [Cheat] coming but I know the angle The card on a n***a probably black as Django I'm no saint no, the roof get to missing n***a, I'm Criss Angel You can't change no freak to a housewife Even if it's a ticket and cash You're tricking n***a, I'll buy outright They say I'm minister or sinister Just remember to tell 'em how bad I'll injure you I owe nobody, all my friends are dead And don't call collect cause I ain't talking with the feds I beg your pardon, there's no need to beg My ears is stuffed up, all I hear is the bread Half a mill on a carry-on Push your waves sideways like Farrakhan I'm who n***as tattle on Build empires like Babylon, tell them n***as babble on I'm who the farmer bet his cattle on Four hundred thousand dollar skateboard I'm wilder than the n***as in the eighth ward You want what Murder got? You gotta save for it So many hits, they think the n***a take 'roids (I'm juiced up) Trippin' over turf, one chirp Get your whole block merked, n***as know what murder worth I lose none, I win some The llamas add commas to my income And they ain't even gotta give me gun I'm trying to get a B, I'm living on the run In the interrogation room, I never gave 'em none Remember where I'm from, anything to get it done I dress her like a nun, I send her through tears [say brick 51,] then shoot you when I'm done From the Chi to the [block, groovin' guy really had a knot And June Embro,] she must have dressed me in the sky I fly in Italia, it's no nostalgia [Your pay might be] to dress like me, I'll style you My money in the floor, gotta lift the towel up Shoot up the prosecutor, they ready to get a trial up n***a I'm just another pretty face [given stakes] Yellow Ferrari brakes on a 458 While naughty girls with no manners sit on my lap like Santa I'll have 'em drinking Ace like Fantas I'm like a scale, I ain't never gave a gram up I never gave my man up, I never put my hand up I never hit the stand up, I never took an oath I never wrote a quote, I never signed a paragraph Even through detention, I never signed [incendant] To the cops, I'm uncooperative, n***as don't know how I live [Chorus]