Streets of New York Songtext
von Kool G Rap

In the streets of New York, dope fiends are leaning for morphine
The TV screen followed the homicide scenes
You live here, you′re taking a chance
So look and I take one glance, there's a man inside an ambulance

Crowds are getting louder, I wonder how the
People want to go fight for the white powder
People hanging in spots
They waited until the blocks got hot and got raided by the cops

I′ll explain the man sleeping in the rain
His whole life remains inside a bottle of Night Train
Another man got his clothes in a sack
'Cause he spent every dime of his rent playing blackjack

And there's the poor little sister
She has a little baby daughter
Named Sonya and Sonya has pneumonia
So why′s her mother in a club unzipped though?


Yo, that′s her job, Sonya's mommy is a bar stripper
Drug dealers drive around looking hard, knowing they′re sending their brothers and sisters to the graveyard
Every day is a main event, some old lady limps
The pushers and pimps eat shrimps

It gets tiring, the sight of a gun firing
They must desire for the sound of a siren
A bag lady dies in an alleyway
She's seen the last of her days inside the subways

More and more down the slope, the kid couldn′t cope
So he stole somebody's dope and a gold rope
Now my son′s on the run, he's a wanted one
Had fun then was done by a shotgun

Upstairs, I cover my ears in tears
The man downstairs must have drank too many beers
'Cause every day of his life he beats his wife
′Til one night she decides to pull a butcher knife

Blind man plays the sax
A tune called: "The Arms on My Moms Show Railroad Tracks"
Many lives are cut short
That′s when you're living - in the streets of New York


Baby needs new shoes
But his papa uses all the money for booze
A young girl is undressed in the back seat of a caddy
Calling some man daddy

Three men, slain inside an apartment
All you could see was the sparks when it darkened
Daylight broke, cops roll on the scene
The drug war, daily routine

Gambling spots, just a poor man′s jackpot
You winning a lot, you get shot
The drug dealing fanatics
But you don't want no static ′cause they got crack addicts with automatics

Shoot-outs for a desire for territory
A kid got caught in the crossfire
A tired mother can't take no more
She grab the bottle full of sleeping pills and took about twenty-four

Human beings are laying on the pavement
′Cause they're a part of a mental enslavement
The cop snipers, little babies in dirty diapers
This type of life is making ya hyper

People scouting a torched-out building
And got killed when the cold air filled in
Is Hell really suggested?
No more persons arrested, a child molested

A little kid says: "Yo
I got a color TV, CD player and car stereo
And all I want is a castle
I also got a .38 don't give me no hassle"

One kid heads straight for the top
And gets stopped and popped by a crooked cop
Look behind you when you walk
That′s how it is - in the streets of New York