Lively Hood

Bad as in good, good as in hood

Evil lurks in the shadow, I wish a nigga would

Ayo, New York, New York, big city of dreams

But some dreams get flushed out and turned to the fiends

By all means it's 24 hours of work

Some niggas got that Sour D and some got dirt

Some is out to bust they heat and some just squirt

Some bitches can shake they asses, some can't twerk

You got Times Square square times, they got lame rhymes

This is Ghost shit, I fuck rats and dimes

These signs are so vivid, the street lights are blaring

You got filthy rich and greedy niggas you ain't sharing

Five boroughs, bitches of all flavors

Crooked cops locking my peoples behind cages

Wrecking agents, The Diamond District

Body bags are all stacked up as another statistic

Dirty water dogs or Morton's Steakhouse fillets

Staten Island, New York, I love my Shaolin ways

Evil thoughts can lead to some positive energy

New York, New York, the baddest place of the century

Bad as in good, good as in hood

Evil lurks in the shadow, I wish a nigga would

Positive thoughts can lead to some negative energy

New York, New York, the baddest place of the century

Salute! Most of the livest dudes is dead

Some folks being polite, some rude instead

The melting pot is overflowing with lead

In the winter is brick, the summertime is like a sweltering hotbed

Manhattan keeps on making, shaking fake tits and bacon bits

Put it on a ritz for shaking glitz in the snake pit

Bootleg bags off Canal is bogus cow skin

You might just see the Riker's Island bus go past every now and then

Thousands of skeletons found under ground zero

Hundreds of years old remains of the brown negro

Built on the backs of immigrants in search of a better life

But all they get is credit as stress and debt as strife

Or read your rights, dead wrong or dead right

Every night, zombie staring, deer stuck in the headlights

Up in Harlem, got that work

Come and get De Nada Pinata and get jerked

Bad as in good, good as in hood

Evil lurks in the shadow, I wish a nigga would