Domingo - NY NY lyrics

[Intro] Tell 'em again, uh huh! Word to the world Word up, New York Word up, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Uptown, Queens Make noise! Staten Island, keep whylin' Word up (woo!) Yeah, yeah, yeah NYC y'all [Verse 1] Steady bouncing in jeeps on these New York streets Recognize the elite, what we did with these beats Yo your town wouldn't eat, if New York didn't speak Don't front with the heat, make me come with the fleet New York is complete, all concrete The center of the world, where all people meet I'm keeping this style simple, to make ends meet I could jump out of a window, and land on both feet New York City is always ruling, reach and teach and always schooling No I'm not fooling, crowd is not booing Original MC'ing, that's what I'm doing [Chorus + Hook] New York, just so ya don't forget New York, home of the Yankees and Mets New York, something you have to see It's the place to be, it's the place for me That's.. tell 'em again..uh huh..yeah..that's right..word..word [Verse 2] Now you could shout your clique, and shout your town But it's time we shout New York, hold it down! You wanna see latinos, yo that's Boogie down African-Americans, yo that's Uptown Jamaicans, Haitians that's Brooklyn bound Run up to Queens, take a good look around Lower Manhattan all the way out to Staten New York is the birth of DJ'in and rappin' [Hook] That's.. yeah yeah.. tell em again.. word word word.. uh huh.. yo yo yeah [Verse 3] Check it! Gun clap, and cops, cracks and rocks Road blocks, routine traffic stops But that raw Hip-Hop it's ova hear You could check my city grammar, it's cold and clear What we gave the world, saved the world Before hip-hop, pop enslaved the world But we freed ourselves with the help of Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Flash did work This is the reason we respect these people Cause when they was doing it, Hip-Hop was illegal Now we all legal, and heads wanna floss They forgot hip-hop, and all the lives that was lost You see the way they dress, and the way they talk They claim they da best, but that's all New York Imma shout it to the world, the truth is out, NY #1, and we in the house That's...