[00:00.73] | New York Times (Feat.50 Cent & Bas) - J. Cole |
[00:03.04] | |
[00:09.63] | This for all my niggas in the city |
[00:10.71] | |
[00:15.95] | This shit really for Queens though |
[00:17.20] | |
[00:19.76] | Really for Queens though |
[00:20.95] | |
[00:22.45] | Ya know? |
[00:23.01] | |
[00:27.69] | Big city of dreams, motivated by schemes |
[00:30.95] | |
[00:31.88] | Getting money regimine with my get money machine |
[00:34.56] | |
[00:36.00] | Nah mean? yeah |
[00:40.68] | |
[00:44.50] | Yeah New York times |
[00:46.06] | Come listen to these New York rhymes |
[00:47.56] | |
[00:48.56] | A southern nigga with a New York mind |
[00:50.36] | |
[00:50.93] | In the concrete jungle of Queen trying to be kings |
[00:53.42] | |
[00:54.05] | Getting to the money of sins by any means |
[00:56.26] | As I watch it all, pain out, trying not to stand out |
[00:59.57] | Fish out of water, unofficial reporter |
[01:01.82] | Appear, life is a bitch I blow a kiss at her daughter |
[01:05.00] | In a city with nigga will leave you shit outta order |
[01:07.62] | So yeah, you heard the news, disturbing news |
[01:10.43] | Shot a brother in the head, thank the lord he ain't dead |
[01:13.30] | Was in a coma for months, eyes ain't opened them once |
[01:16.11] | My nigga visibally stretch in a mess he's smoking a blunt |
[01:18.94] | What could I say, I can't relate to that |
[01:20.69] | All I do is pray for that |
[01:22.41] | This is city god told me : 'go and make it' at |
[01:25.35] | I got a date with destiny, I'm running late for that |
[01:27.97] | Grab a paper, hey kid, you gotta pay for that |
[01:30.93] | |
[01:32.74] | The New York Times |
[01:33.55] | |
[01:38.41] | The New York Times |
[01:39.66] | (Extra, extra, read all about it) |
[01:41.78] | They say you can win anywhere |
[01:43.16] | If you can win here |
[01:44.47] | And you ain't been no where if you ain't been here |
[01:46.71] | |
[01:47.27] | Ball so hard you aint really in the game man |
[01:49.96] | Same place, different face, on the train, man |
[01:52.64] | New York, New York |
[01:53.70] | Hop on the F train, took the express train |
[01:56.01] | Skip that local shit, my vocal sick |
[01:57.45] | That's how success came |
[01:59.16] | Once kings now we pawns in this chess game |
[02:02.33] | Wall Street got black slave blood stains |
[02:04.77] | Which means, we built this city |
[02:07.32] | And never got scraps while the devil got fat |
[02:09.88] | In fact, reparation for niggas and desperation |
[02:12.38] | |
[02:13.00] | Fuck money, get my kid a real education |
[02:15.81] | Blood money spills, had a real revelation |
[02:18.49] | Southside make you realize there's still segregation |
[02:21.63] | Don't wanna preach I'm just thinking out loud |
[02:23.88] | Sometimes I wanna save the world and |
[02:25.44] | I be thinking bout how |
[02:26.81] | To lead my niggas to paradise |
[02:29.32] | Imagine the world, free from pain |
[02:30.91] | And we no longer scared the night |
[02:32.72] | Far from the crime, the blind leading the blind |
[02:35.28] | We gon make it primetime till we dyin' |
[02:37.59] | The New York Times |
[02:38.53] | |
[02:40.50] | The New York Times |
[02:41.38] | |
[02:46.18] | The New York Times |
[02:47.43] | (Extra, extra, read all about it) |
[02:49.30] | They say you can win anywhere |
[02:50.67] | If you can win here |
[02:52.17] | And you ain't been no where if you ain't been here |
[02:54.92] | Ball so hard you aint really in the game man |
[02:57.79] | Same place, different face, on the train, man |
[03:00.35] | New York, New York |
[03:01.41] | How I go from selling reefa and plates |
[03:03.34] | Till eating steaks with Cole and playing FIFA with Drake |
[03:06.21] | Should've been in the States, property of the Jakes |
[03:08.89] | Now I'm plotting on profits and properties on the lake |
[03:11.89] | Let me properly immigrate you to it |
[03:14.64] | Show you how the heads of states and gangsters do it |
[03:17.58] | Them niggas talk a lot of shit but they ain't been through it |
[03:20.20] | I done been up in everything, cars you never seen |
[03:23.26] | City's you never heard of, from the streets where they murder |
[03:26.82] | Police observe us till they reach the verdict |
[03:29.93] | Kill 'em all, fucking kill 'em all |
[03:32.12] | If you can't send 'em till the pen |
[03:33.55] | Send 'em to the morgue |
[03:35.05] | Send 'em to the Lord, fuck it, send his broad |
[03:37.42] | Hundred shots through the dark |
[03:38.61] | But they never hit my heart, nigga |
[03:40.42] | |
[03:41.29] | Bitch nigga, take a pause |
[03:43.01] | Hundred shots through the dark you can never hit my heart |
[03:45.57] | The New York Times |
[03:46.50] | |
[03:48.31] | The New York Times |
[03:49.26] | |
[03:53.94] | The New York Times |
[03:54.94] | (Extra, extra, read all about it) |
[03:57.12] | They say you can win anywhere |
[03:58.37] | If you can win here |
[03:59.93] | And you ain't been no where if you ain't been here |
[04:02.55] | Ball so hard you aint really in the game man |
[04:05.36] | Same place, different face, on the train, man |
[04:08.11] | New York, New York |
[00:00.73] | New York Times Feat. 50 Cent Bas J. Cole |
[00:03.04] | |
[00:09.63] | This for all my niggas in the city |
[00:10.71] | |
[00:15.95] | This shit really for Queens though |
[00:17.20] | |
[00:19.76] | Really for Queens though |
[00:20.95] | |
[00:22.45] | Ya know? |
[00:23.01] | |
[00:27.69] | Big city of dreams, motivated by schemes |
[00:30.95] | |
[00:31.88] | Getting money regimine with my get money machine |
[00:34.56] | |
[00:36.00] | Nah mean? yeah |
[00:40.68] | |
[00:44.50] | Yeah New York times |
[00:46.06] | Come listen to these New York rhymes |
[00:47.56] | |
[00:48.56] | A southern nigga with a New York mind |
[00:50.36] | |
[00:50.93] | In the concrete jungle of Queen trying to be kings |
[00:53.42] | |
[00:54.05] | Getting to the money of sins by any means |
[00:56.26] | As I watch it all, pain out, trying not to stand out |
[00:59.57] | Fish out of water, unofficial reporter |
[01:01.82] | Appear, life is a bitch I blow a kiss at her daughter |
[01:05.00] | In a city with nigga will leave you shit outta order |
[01:07.62] | So yeah, you heard the news, disturbing news |
[01:10.43] | Shot a brother in the head, thank the lord he ain' t dead |
[01:13.30] | Was in a coma for months, eyes ain' t opened them once |
[01:16.11] | My nigga visibally stretch in a mess he' s smoking a blunt |
[01:18.94] | What could I say, I can' t relate to that |
[01:20.69] | All I do is pray for that |
[01:22.41] | This is city god told me : ' go and make it' at |
[01:25.35] | I got a date with destiny, I' m running late for that |
[01:27.97] | Grab a paper, hey kid, you gotta pay for that |
[01:30.93] | |
[01:32.74] | The New York Times |
[01:33.55] | |
[01:38.41] | The New York Times |
[01:39.66] | Extra, extra, read all about it |
[01:41.78] | They say you can win anywhere |
[01:43.16] | If you can win here |
[01:44.47] | And you ain' t been no where if you ain' t been here |
[01:46.71] | |
[01:47.27] | Ball so hard you aint really in the game man |
[01:49.96] | Same place, different face, on the train, man |
[01:52.64] | New York, New York |
[01:53.70] | Hop on the F train, took the express train |
[01:56.01] | Skip that local shit, my vocal sick |
[01:57.45] | That' s how success came |
[01:59.16] | Once kings now we pawns in this chess game |
[02:02.33] | Wall Street got black slave blood stains |
[02:04.77] | Which means, we built this city |
[02:07.32] | And never got scraps while the devil got fat |
[02:09.88] | In fact, reparation for niggas and desperation |
[02:12.38] | |
[02:13.00] | Fuck money, get my kid a real education |
[02:15.81] | Blood money spills, had a real revelation |
[02:18.49] | Southside make you realize there' s still segregation |
[02:21.63] | Don' t wanna preach I' m just thinking out loud |
[02:23.88] | Sometimes I wanna save the world and |
[02:25.44] | I be thinking bout how |
[02:26.81] | To lead my niggas to paradise |
[02:29.32] | Imagine the world, free from pain |
[02:30.91] | And we no longer scared the night |
[02:32.72] | Far from the crime, the blind leading the blind |
[02:35.28] | We gon make it primetime till we dyin' |
[02:37.59] | The New York Times |
[02:38.53] | |
[02:40.50] | The New York Times |
[02:41.38] | |
[02:46.18] | The New York Times |
[02:47.43] | Extra, extra, read all about it |
[02:49.30] | They say you can win anywhere |
[02:50.67] | If you can win here |
[02:52.17] | And you ain' t been no where if you ain' t been here |
[02:54.92] | Ball so hard you aint really in the game man |
[02:57.79] | Same place, different face, on the train, man |
[03:00.35] | New York, New York |
[03:01.41] | How I go from selling reefa and plates |
[03:03.34] | Till eating steaks with Cole and playing FIFA with Drake |
[03:06.21] | Should' ve been in the States, property of the Jakes |
[03:08.89] | Now I' m plotting on profits and properties on the lake |
[03:11.89] | Let me properly immigrate you to it |
[03:14.64] | Show you how the heads of states and gangsters do it |
[03:17.58] | Them niggas talk a lot of shit but they ain' t been through it |
[03:20.20] | I done been up in everything, cars you never seen |
[03:23.26] | City' s you never heard of, from the streets where they murder |
[03:26.82] | Police observe us till they reach the verdict |
[03:29.93] | Kill ' em all, fucking kill ' em all |
[03:32.12] | If you can' t send ' em till the pen |
[03:33.55] | Send ' em to the morgue |
[03:35.05] | Send ' em to the Lord, fuck it, send his broad |
[03:37.42] | Hundred shots through the dark |
[03:38.61] | But they never hit my heart, nigga |
[03:40.42] | |
[03:41.29] | Bitch nigga, take a pause |
[03:43.01] | Hundred shots through the dark you can never hit my heart |
[03:45.57] | The New York Times |
[03:46.50] | |
[03:48.31] | The New York Times |
[03:49.26] | |
[03:53.94] | The New York Times |
[03:54.94] | Extra, extra, read all about it |
[03:57.12] | They say you can win anywhere |
[03:58.37] | If you can win here |
[03:59.93] | And you ain' t been no where if you ain' t been here |
[04:02.55] | Ball so hard you aint really in the game man |
[04:05.36] | Same place, different face, on the train, man |
[04:08.11] | New York, New York |
[00:00.73] | New York Times Feat. 50 Cent Bas J. Cole |
[00:03.04] | |
[00:09.63] | This for all my niggas in the city |
[00:10.71] | |
[00:15.95] | This shit really for Queens though |
[00:17.20] | |
[00:19.76] | Really for Queens though |
[00:20.95] | |
[00:22.45] | Ya know? |
[00:23.01] | |
[00:27.69] | Big city of dreams, motivated by schemes |
[00:30.95] | |
[00:31.88] | Getting money regimine with my get money machine |
[00:34.56] | |
[00:36.00] | Nah mean? yeah |
[00:40.68] | |
[00:44.50] | Yeah New York times |
[00:46.06] | Come listen to these New York rhymes |
[00:47.56] | |
[00:48.56] | A southern nigga with a New York mind |
[00:50.36] | |
[00:50.93] | In the concrete jungle of Queen trying to be kings |
[00:53.42] | |
[00:54.05] | Getting to the money of sins by any means |
[00:56.26] | As I watch it all, pain out, trying not to stand out |
[00:59.57] | Fish out of water, unofficial reporter |
[01:01.82] | Appear, life is a bitch I blow a kiss at her daughter |
[01:05.00] | In a city with nigga will leave you shit outta order |
[01:07.62] | So yeah, you heard the news, disturbing news |
[01:10.43] | Shot a brother in the head, thank the lord he ain' t dead |
[01:13.30] | Was in a coma for months, eyes ain' t opened them once |
[01:16.11] | My nigga visibally stretch in a mess he' s smoking a blunt |
[01:18.94] | What could I say, I can' t relate to that |
[01:20.69] | All I do is pray for that |
[01:22.41] | This is city god told me : ' go and make it' at |
[01:25.35] | I got a date with destiny, I' m running late for that |
[01:27.97] | Grab a paper, hey kid, you gotta pay for that |
[01:30.93] | |
[01:32.74] | The New York Times |
[01:33.55] | |
[01:38.41] | The New York Times |
[01:39.66] | Extra, extra, read all about it |
[01:41.78] | They say you can win anywhere |
[01:43.16] | If you can win here |
[01:44.47] | And you ain' t been no where if you ain' t been here |
[01:46.71] | |
[01:47.27] | Ball so hard you aint really in the game man |
[01:49.96] | Same place, different face, on the train, man |
[01:52.64] | New York, New York |
[01:53.70] | Hop on the F train, took the express train |
[01:56.01] | Skip that local shit, my vocal sick |
[01:57.45] | That' s how success came |
[01:59.16] | Once kings now we pawns in this chess game |
[02:02.33] | Wall Street got black slave blood stains |
[02:04.77] | Which means, we built this city |
[02:07.32] | And never got scraps while the devil got fat |
[02:09.88] | In fact, reparation for niggas and desperation |
[02:12.38] | |
[02:13.00] | Fuck money, get my kid a real education |
[02:15.81] | Blood money spills, had a real revelation |
[02:18.49] | Southside make you realize there' s still segregation |
[02:21.63] | Don' t wanna preach I' m just thinking out loud |
[02:23.88] | Sometimes I wanna save the world and |
[02:25.44] | I be thinking bout how |
[02:26.81] | To lead my niggas to paradise |
[02:29.32] | Imagine the world, free from pain |
[02:30.91] | And we no longer scared the night |
[02:32.72] | Far from the crime, the blind leading the blind |
[02:35.28] | We gon make it primetime till we dyin' |
[02:37.59] | The New York Times |
[02:38.53] | |
[02:40.50] | The New York Times |
[02:41.38] | |
[02:46.18] | The New York Times |
[02:47.43] | Extra, extra, read all about it |
[02:49.30] | They say you can win anywhere |
[02:50.67] | If you can win here |
[02:52.17] | And you ain' t been no where if you ain' t been here |
[02:54.92] | Ball so hard you aint really in the game man |
[02:57.79] | Same place, different face, on the train, man |
[03:00.35] | New York, New York |
[03:01.41] | How I go from selling reefa and plates |
[03:03.34] | Till eating steaks with Cole and playing FIFA with Drake |
[03:06.21] | Should' ve been in the States, property of the Jakes |
[03:08.89] | Now I' m plotting on profits and properties on the lake |
[03:11.89] | Let me properly immigrate you to it |
[03:14.64] | Show you how the heads of states and gangsters do it |
[03:17.58] | Them niggas talk a lot of shit but they ain' t been through it |
[03:20.20] | I done been up in everything, cars you never seen |
[03:23.26] | City' s you never heard of, from the streets where they murder |
[03:26.82] | Police observe us till they reach the verdict |
[03:29.93] | Kill ' em all, fucking kill ' em all |
[03:32.12] | If you can' t send ' em till the pen |
[03:33.55] | Send ' em to the morgue |
[03:35.05] | Send ' em to the Lord, fuck it, send his broad |
[03:37.42] | Hundred shots through the dark |
[03:38.61] | But they never hit my heart, nigga |
[03:40.42] | |
[03:41.29] | Bitch nigga, take a pause |
[03:43.01] | Hundred shots through the dark you can never hit my heart |
[03:45.57] | The New York Times |
[03:46.50] | |
[03:48.31] | The New York Times |
[03:49.26] | |
[03:53.94] | The New York Times |
[03:54.94] | Extra, extra, read all about it |
[03:57.12] | They say you can win anywhere |
[03:58.37] | If you can win here |
[03:59.93] | And you ain' t been no where if you ain' t been here |
[04:02.55] | Ball so hard you aint really in the game man |
[04:05.36] | Same place, different face, on the train, man |
[04:08.11] | New York, New York |