In the city where life is animated with colors
   Contaminated with aggravated brothers, who knows where the love is?
   Growing up swinging, through my upbringing
   My limits is the sky from the all eye seeing
   Of so-called realities filled with technicalities
   I watch my steps, stay on my p's and check my casualties
   Not to get played, equipped with all the tricks of the trade
   I even learned from the mistakes that the next man made
   I know to choose and pick the people I grow up around
   I know to grow and get to know the town up and down
   But there's no instructions, so many directions
   A lot of crooks look to get hooked with connections
   Some thought they knew all adolescence could teach
   They graduated from school but fail life in the streets
   Your pops taught you to strive and stay a live, no ditty
   It's easy to die when you're living for the city
  
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   I grow according to my environmental habitat
   I hang where everything seem to happen at
   I seen it all, and I've been doing that since I was small
   Catch a flashback y'all, if I can recall
   The days on the corner we watched the world go by
   Or nights that wasn't right like when a good friend dies
   I quest for the best for prepare for the worst
   Never scared but I cared if I'm blessed or I'm cursed
   Yes I fear no man but Allah
   I'm Gomar Oras Dubar
   Which is God so It's hard to see Ra
   I do what I gotta do, with or without a clue
   Run through any obstacle including you
   Cause I ain't got to bust you, cause I got the muscle
   A push any clown that tries to slow down my hustle
   I gotta get by, but there's no time for pity
   It's easy to die when you're living for the city
  
  
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   I'm in a zone everywhere I seem to roam is home
   A rolling stone, I hold my own just like a microphone
   I stay in tune, travel in harmony and set the tone
   Being young but I'm grown and well-known
   Try to take me out New York but you can't take New York out of me
   Cause that's the only way that I know how to be
   My neighbors is jealous they label us drug sellers
   We may be hood dwellers, we're just a bunch of goodfellas
   Cause we run wild with a passion, my style and my fashion
   Is getting, kid, I'm making cash and crashing
   Parties that everybody's talking about, we turn it out
   I'm just a native New Yorker with clout
   I know my way around any borough and any town
   I make a lot of ground and I'm hard to be found
   I get down to the nitty gritty, wake up with something pretty
   It gets me through another day living for the city
  
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