City So Nice Lyrics

Yea..

'Til you live in this city

You don't really know man

City so nice they named it twice

City so nice shoulda named it life

When you down and out you break bread with mice

On the search of cheese your whole world get cold as ice

To make it worse money lives next door

Yo you just moved in? Nah I just clean their floors

Oh ok ese let's say we play

A little game called how we gon' get rich today

It ain't about your race or where you used to play

The playground more colored than an Easter egg

Yo I moved here at 14 big ass dreams

I wanted to play 1st base on the Yankees team

But varsity I wasn't a star by the 12th grade

And the theatre director gave me a lead on the stage

So I flipped the page hit the downtown art scene

New York, New York the whole world's watching

So when I walk in just keep it New York cool

You know how you do "Yeah I know you dude how you do?

I like your style last thing I'll do is say it"

That's cool you stink get outta my way bitch

I gotta keep on moving I gotta keep on doing

Everything I can make sure this whack shit is ruined

And until the Big Apple stands here in ruins

Imma stay increasing capital maintain both shoes in

Cuz ain't nobody choosing my destiny but me

Mother Mary could call but I can't let it be

And uh actors act and uh talkers talk

Players play so I guess New Yorkers New York

That's the first thing you need to know about moving here

It's a job to live here

Like literally

So you gotta know your position

Round here we just tryna live right

Single life with way more than a single strife

City got a special way to make you feel like

You ain't jack by day, but you're Queen and King of the night

I guess thats why I keep an ace in my back pocket

Picture of my own face in my chain locket

My case ain't that of an orphan but

I wouldn't mind the taste of Daddy Warbucks

You know sugar and spice and everything nice

Rainbows and sunshine do I have to say it twice

Paradise some say its a myth well if it is guess what

Ignorance is bliss

I'm using every last one of my gifts

To sift through the bullshit niggas tryna pull shit

Stay over there with your way too cool shit

What's my name Prince Harvey and I'm here to rule shit

So where the king at? cuz I'm in Kings County

Brooklyn bounty hunting anybody doubt me

NYC cream of the crop you know the best

If I could make it here yea Imma show you the rest

You know that I'm blessed right

Strolling through the city with an 'S' on my chest right

My future make the sun look less bright

Step into my mind Imma take you on a test flight

Peep this it's just me and my peeps

The kings and the queens that I roll with shit

And this game we playing for keeps

So you can't really you can't really fuck with us

You gotta know you social circle

You gotta know...

(Can't fuck wit this nigga)

What your friend to co-worker ratio is gon' be

Lets keep it real ain't no place greater

You wanna be a winner then you better be a playmaker

Pawns get eaten on the boardwalk

Walking down Broadway yellow tape white chalk

Why talk if you ain't plan to do shit

I could tell you ain't 'bout it we ain't been introduced yet

Best believe it's a jungle out here

Cue the church bells we ready to rumble out here

Smell fear from a mile out

Cold shoulder you ain't down to wyle out

No shade I'm just tryna shelter you

You a plain glass of water I ain't bout to Alka Seltzer you

City so nice, with a twist

Welcome to the dark side step into the mist

Before you know it you have been enlisted

New York City's school of the gifted

But are you gon' make them grades tho?

That's what's important, are you gonna pass the test, nigga?

Are you ready? Are you down for the challenge?

You down for the count, motherfucker?

Mother mother fucker?

That's what it is. That's -

That's what separates those who make it, and those who don't

It's like.. it's just just a big ass, it's just a big ass school

It's just like high school

You know we all come in

You kinda zoned in the motherfucker cuz you here

And you go to school just like everybody else

Now some of us do extra curricular activities

Some of us gotta keep our grades up

Cuz of, uh... sports teams or whatever the fuck

Ummm... some of us is on the honor roll

And some of us taking college AP courses

And some of us just sit in the hallway

You know what I'm saying

Some of us dress the part and get seen in the cafeteria

Hehe, you know

But at the end of the day, it's like

Who graduates? And like

Who's Valedictorian?

Who gets to speak about your generation