(Verse 1)

My City is in your dreams within reach of the key
It's where everybody who's somebody wants to be
And for residents residing in High Rent Boxes of sweat
It's a place that we'd rather forget
Cars roll past horns honk
Follow the new talk
Women when it gets too dark they never walk
Outside where it's live and gritty my overpriced rundown city show no pity to those who be living
The lady liberty torch, Staten Island The Ferry
To Far Rock Beach, where plenty bodies are buried
Boisterous boys deploy new methods to talk to
girls of the world, pearl shines out of the oyster
Still she holds her head high
From Hunts Point to Bed-Stuy
Staying Alive was no jive
I reside
In the state
I realize
That we're great

(Chorus)

In The City
(Livin In The City)
In The City
(Livin In The City)
In The City
(Livin In The City)
In The City
(Livin In The City)

This is home of the Iron Horse
Steel Worm where metal instead of leather burn when wheels turn it's like
Embedded in minds the insight that better late than never is never a concern it's like
As soon as you learn to learn sight see bright lights soon as you turn the turnpike
Soon as I learned to like I liked the BX
Learn to earn stripes, fight for respect it's like
It's night we up, we we write, so what we up re-up, we might, spend nights on the same track, then hit the train tracks for the grey mic. We came back no fame no maybachs,
But I could navigate trains like train mice or train rats no taps
Or yankee caps the crowd see, you couldn't say NYC without me.

(Chorus)
In The City
Livin' In The City
In The City
Livin' In The City
In The City
Livin In The City
In The City
Livin' In The City

Verse 3: (J.Monopoly)

Kings from Queens from Queens come Kings,
Where Run Raised Hell and LL Rocked Bells
If you could make it here than you could make it anywhere
Even if your crib got roaches and rodents everywhere
Everybody got a hustle, from open mic amatuers down to Subway Panhandlers
Other cities channel us tourist walkin all over is on 42nd Flashing Cameras
I got 8 Million Stories for the Next Generation who probably won't be around because of Gentrification
Prices Rising the schools closing yo they be wilding, the plan is to get us outta here and put us on the Island but
Nonetheless we stay balling on some Harlem S***
Damn everytime we turn around Brooklyn startin S***
Is Queens in the House I'm known to rep Hollis Quick
But New York's my city and I'm glad to be a part of it.