[Chorus 2X: Joe Cocker "Summer in the City" sample] Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck, getting dirt and gritty Been down, isn't it a pity Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
[Lounge Lo] I said, hot time, summer in the city My people from the Stat, gets busy It's BZ Mode, easy flow, if you ask who is he Park Hill, Staten Island, it's the beat, for sheezy In the Hill we call a rapper rizzy, and the glocks oblivy I pop your top, if you stop and piss me And the cops they wanna stop and frisk me, but I purp on foot The work I put on my block is in me Ya'll niggas is faggots, ya'll maggots ain't friendly My nine, Heckle and Koch, automatic and semi My whole block got it in for 50, teared up In the club, with the snub, when the Stones is with me Sent the chip with a mean limp, beef and stain spliff Politic with the Gods still work on a clean bench My hood they love me, so nigga, the same bit I still laid it hot, you know, what it seem, that beem strips
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[Solomon Childs] Read it, niggas is all killas High rollers, we hold bank, though Briefcases, the magnum it pause Double agent features, we hustle them pizzerias And chinese foods, as well as public parks Staten Island, nothing new murdering NARCs Pardon us, plot to murder partners Teach the young to bury the enemy with the conscience You know the same routine, holding a pit's mouth When it's young, feared to be a monster Gladiator, gorilla, with ghetto renevue Whether goods or residue Childs, the future, til you feel the blood of the roster And I ain't scared of you and none of your troopers Branded, with a barcode and the seeds of the future