Big City - Masta Ace

[00:24.42]'New York Big City of Dreams'
[00:34.38]To get by cats doing plenty of things
[00:36.99]It's a honest hustle but you gotta have some kind of muscle
[00:40.5]Either it's that or you sign with Russel
[00:42.96]'Cause nowadays an average cat can flow decent
[00:45.93]So in your sparetime you can go to the precinct
[00:48.48]Let me introduce you to some cats who won't shoot you
[00:51.72]Everyday they're spinnnin their pen it's so crucial
[00:54.78]They got kids to feed wifes to hug
[00:57.21]Their jobs are so strange their lifes above
[00:59.82]Look my n***a Al had a store in his trunk
[01:02.82]And the place under the dash where he store his pump
[01:05.7]He had them white and white 'Air Force Ones' for 40
[01:08.520004]And them iddy biddy kiddy ones for shorty
[01:11.94]He was just trying to survive to the session
[01:14.49]Now he's locked up for stolen goods and gun posession
[01:17.76]My n***a Neek had them first for cheek
[01:20.16]He bough a too family home and excursion jeep
[01:23.16]But word got around he was doing it big
[01:25.68]Cops ran up in his crib now he's doing a bit
[01:28.83]Now Jose was making money hand over biz
[01:31.83]He had legimated jobs with a little bit of a twist
[01:34.92]Besides me and my man I've known people
[01:37.53]He sold stuff too out of the back of home deepo
[01:40.47]Everything from new tools to kitchen sinks
[01:43.05]And he was just trying to get rich as stinks
[01:46.14]'Cause now he lost his job and his morgage due
[01:48.84]And he can't afford a lawyer man law gets through oooh
[01:52.35]We were lying on skeems and skams
[01:54.81]Just so we could realize our dreams and plans man
[01:57.869995]This ain't America is it
[01:59.880005]It don't take much for the cops to come pay you a visit
[02:03.33]But do what you gotta do f**k them laws
[02:06.3]Life is a test you better up them scores
[02:08.88]Listen I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to life
[02:11.73]And here is some advise I been dying to give
[02:15.39]They don't care if you sell it to inner section
[02:17.7]Republicans run for officers when ellection
[02:21.0]Who's in the inner section see my pen errecting
[02:24.42]This for my cats that just been effecting
[02:26.58]From ground sillawats it's down steal the spots
[02:29.49]It won't stop untill we're down kill the cops
[02:31.89]It's a revolution you believe in god a evolution
[02:35.55]Either way dog we need a resolution like Aaliyah
[02:38.22]A man got sentenced to a year
[02:40.70999]And when he get out it's another street career
[02:43.41]It's a vicious cycle
[02:44.64]For every kid who ball in the park and wish he might do
[02:47.61]Listen the world don't like you but
[02:49.74]You better keep it moving you better keep improving
[02:52.53]You love my voice ain't it deep insolvent
[02:54.69]I'm saying f**k fame I'm having a no name
[02:57.33]Platinum and gold chain and saying
[02:59.25]I'ma beat 'em at their own game