| [00:00.00][Intro] |
"We did it like that and now we do it like this" |
| [00:02.80] |
"We did it like that and now we do it like this"（采样自他们1994年的歌曲《Crooklyn》） |
| [00:08.71][Verse 1: Chubb Rock] |
Now clock kids, who got the cocaine? |
| [00:12.93] |
Don't tell me it's the little kids on Soul Train |
| [00:15.55] |
The metaphor sent from my brain to my jaw |
| [00:17.85] |
It comes from other places, not the tinted faces |
| [00:20.37] |
Journalistic values are yellow and then, of course, falters |
| [00:23.12] |
You'll watch Channel Zero with that nigga Barbara Walters |
| [00:25.69] |
She'll have you believe black invented crack |
| [00:28.91] |
When President Lyndon had the formula way back |
| [00:31.78] |
In '63 with Kennedy, yes, the double cross |
| [00:33.50] |
Remember that's when they blow his ****ing head off |
| [00:35.88] |
Vietnam vets come back looking like one-armed pets |
| [00:39.04] |
Nixon bounced pure checks |
| [00:40.81] |
No picket fence, no job, no 8-cylinder car |
| [00:43.90] |
Blue collar turns to bourgeois |
| [00:45.85] |
Depressed in your chest |
| [00:47.47] |
Demerol for sess, no dough, crack in vials much less |
| [00:50.96] |
Whitey can sell on the corners of Bushwick |
| [00:53.70] |
Whitey can sell on the corners of Flatbush |
| [00:56.39] |
Whiteys can sell on the corners of Bed-Stuy |
| [00:59.01] |
Pass the torch to that nigga guy |
| [01:01.02] |
So just die, nigga, die, nigga |
| [01:03.72] |
You're too black, you can't handle, you're too strong |
| [01:06.40] |
Get high, fly, clock. Next, boost your steel |
| [01:09.03] |
In '95, we take back Ebbets Field |
| [01:16.68][Scratched] |
"Now let's take a sec to think back"（仍采样自《Crooklyn》） |
| [01:21.40][Verse 2: O.C] |
Brooklyn: Traveling distance to party |
| [01:24.66] |
Brooklyn: absent at functions? Not hardly |
| [01:27.11] |
Brooklyn: the name alone holds Godly |
| [01:29.78] |
You don't know? You better ask somebody |
| [01:32.48] |
Crack filled streets since '85. |
| [01:34.68] |
The Beast getting paid to not bust |
| [01:36.21] |
Hookers’ drawers got crust |
| [01:37.37] |
Claps clapping regular |
| [01:39.24] |
Hardcore niggas with Fat gold chains on the corner maintaining |
| [01:42.16] |
Gold teeth flashing, stickup kids playing in front of |
| [01:45.47] |
Latin Quarters—keep home your daughters |
| [01:47.67] |
‘Cause if bullets fly, watch the flaming |
| [01:49.62] |
Ignorant Ducks are shooting, wiling |
| [01:51.70] |
They're not aiming |
| [01:53.16] |
One Easter—now, to think about it, what a pity |
| [01:55.38] |
Five people died in front of Skate City |
| [01:57.90] |
Senseless, Back then you was ill if you had a gun |
| [02:00.37] |
People gash you and flash you, damn, no fun |
| [02:02.75] |
Albee Square, you couldn't shop too much ‘cause |
| [02:05.62] |
Fort Greene would hem you, wreck the **** on up. |
| [02:08.06] |
You had Do or Die, East New York, mad Hell |
| [02:10.62] |
Fellas cutting school, trooping to all go Maxwell |
| [02:13.37] |
So many memories I can't manifest |
| [02:15.93] |
Yo, ‘Ru, start where I finish and, to Brooklyn, God bless |
| [02:23.51][Scratched Hook] |
（Hook仍采样自《Crooklyn》）"Crazy ass Crooklyn kids" |
| [02:26.16] |
"Represent the Brooklyn all-nighter" |
| [02:28.95] |
"Crazy ass Crooklyn kids" |
| [02:31.40] |
"Because it is, survival of the fittest" |
| [02:34.39] |
"Crazy ass Crooklyn kids" |
| [02:36.43] |
"Represent the Brooklyn all-nighter" |
| [02:39.31] |
"Crazy ass Crooklyn kids" |
| [02:41.51] |
"Because it is, survival of the fittest" |
| [02:43.85][Verse 3: Jeru the Damaja] |
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| [02:44.59] |
Listen ‘cause, for your mind, I got the right nutrition. |
| [02:47.19] |
We keep shit hard like fat asses and cases of Heineken |
| [02:49.27] |
Here in Brooklyn, home of the warrior and villain |
| [02:51.83] |
Trife type chicks, “Top Billin'”s the anthem |
| [02:54.46] |
Rastas smoke marijuana, enterprising businessmen shoot dice on the corner |
| [02:59.35] |
Excuse me while I light my spliff but some choose to sip |
| [03:02.10] |
So bullets hit brains when bottles hit lips |
| [03:04.43] |
Clips, whatever happened to .38 Special? |
| [03:07.00] |
Now it's Desert Eagles, government issue |
| [03:09.55] |
Probably the same one that killed Noriega. |
| [03:11.99] |
Chips that power nuclear bombs power my Sega |
| [03:14.55] |
Subliminal hypnotism and colonialism |
| [03:17.37] |
Leave most niggas dead or in prison |
| [03:19.98] |
In Crookland, right hand cuts off the left hand |
| [03:22.12] |
To spite the hand. Jealous of the next man |
| [03:24.57] |
So violent crimes black-on-black, plus mad crack to boot |
| [03:27.51] |
Everybody can't rap, so most hustle and shoot |
| [03:30.00] |
“Make money money, get money, take money.” |
| [03:32.62] |
I can't understand that concept ‘cause Jah rules everything around me |
| [03:35.44] |
Fire burns the unjust like arson, larceny |
| [03:37.77] |
Melt emcees with mental telepathy |
| [03:40.28] |
With precision, we're slicing and dicing. |
| [03:42.83] |
Peace to the East New York, Perverted Monks, and Mike Tyson |
| [03:45.58][Scratched Hook] |
"Crazy ass Crooklyn kids" |
| [03:48.75] |
"Represent the Brooklyn all-nighter" |
| [03:51.31] |
"Crazy ass Crooklyn kids" |
| [03:53.27] |
"Because it is, survival of the fittest" |
| [03:55.82] |
"Crazy ass Crooklyn kids" |
| [03:58.84] |
"Represent the Brooklyn all-nighter" |
| [04:01.41] |
"Crazy ass Crooklyn kids" |
| [04:03.24] |
"Because it is, survival of the fittest" |
