New York (Ya Out There?)

{*from the movie "Wildstyle"*}<br>If you was born in New york City let me hear say "You know that"!<br>YOU KNOW THAT<br><br>[Rakim]<br>Aiyyo, once upon a rhyme where the scenery sets, you see stress<br>Streets a matter of life and death, no regrets<br>Life`s a test, strife, wit special effects<br>Neighbourhood`s full of reps, cities are projects<br>Where the young cadets get stripes from the vets<br>And comrades quest to be the next, to finess <br>Collect debts and select bets with death threats<br>Object - Chedder, better your total net<br>Where trends are set from ways to express the outfits<br>Friends get wet tryin` to make ends connect<br>Avenues to check, boulevards to sweat<br>The smell of gunsmoke more common than cigarettes<br>WE GOT clicks for wreck<br>WE LIKE Pits for pets<br>WE GOT Giants and Jets, the Knicks, Yanks and Mets<br>WE LIKE much respect and sex extra wet<br>And High-Tech dialect you ain`t catch yet<br><br>(The Bronx<br>Ya out there?<br>No doubt<br>Brooklyn<br>ya out there)<br><br>[Rakim]<br>Aiyyo, we got blocks and glocks with<br>Big shots with big knots and big props<br>Yo this is where the bullshit stops<br>Where herbs get got, if you snitch you get shot<br>We get down and leave the town in a state of shock<br>WE GOT dangerous hang out spots and slick cops<br>Place called Riker`s Island where kids get locked<br>A lotta gear to rock with blocks of clothes shops<br>Styles are top notch, this is the place to watch<br>So bust the box the radio station is hot<br>Ease your mind staring at skylines from rooftops<br>Flip scripts for chips, and new whips off the lot<br>Quick to call a shot, pollitic with thick plots<br>And the Garden of Eden against the sea that we got<br>to make sure the core of the Big Apple don`t rot<br>Where seeings believing we be achieving a lot<br>Since disc jocks created hip hop, check it out!<br><br>(Queens - ya out there? no doubt<br>Manhattan - no doubt<br>New York city, Staten Island<br>New York, New York, Long Island<br>New York - ya out there?)<br><br>[Rakim]<br>Aiyyo, we got five bouroughs of ghettos<br>with many places to meet, you get lost in city streets<br>the city that never sleeps<br>Mecca ? Medina the population increase<br>The desert and the oasis, New York, the far east<br>With Gods and sheiks, pretty Amazons for weeks<br>Player dons that fleece the family`s black sheep<br>Icons that teach that we all act unique<br>We got stats to reach so we all have to eat<br>A mass of peeps, with they own masterpiece<br>The crafts elite, we going past the beat<br>The latest technique no other place get as deep<br>Who parks release some of the worlds greatest athletes<br>DJ`s and MC`s and graffiti artistes<br>Who use walls and subway trains for marquees <br>We go back to b-boys, breakdancing, breakbeats<br>And it`ll never cease and on that note, we say peace