New York lyrics

[Intro: DJ Khaled, Dre, & Ja Rule]

This Is

DJ Khaled

This is

I'm about unity, man!

This is

Gotta love it

Greetings from Miami-Dade County, Florida

This is, this is, this is, this is, this is

Listennn!

This is, this is, this is, this is, this is

Ohhhh, New York!

Let's go Listennn!

[Chorus 1: Ja Rule, DJ Khaled, & Jadakiss]

One's for the trouble

Two's for the show

Three's for the bass and that limelight glow

I know

(You thinking that this game is over)

Oh no!

(A-HAAAAAA!)

(The wait is over)

New York is back!

(Let me see your hands, wave 'em side to side)

D-Block!

(Put 'em up high, dunk ride cause)

New York is back!

(Let me see your hands, wave 'em side to side)

(Uh, yeah, uh yeah)

(Put 'em up high, lets ride cause)

(A-HAAAAAA!)

New York is back!

[Verse 1: Jadakiss]

Yo, the hammer and the muzzle came together

All I did was hold on to the pieces 'til the puzzle came together

Before it all got hype

I was in the core of the Apple before it got ripe

So I ain't gotta act like

I'm on top of, or in front of them

If I'm not the best, dog, then I'm one of them

Listen, I'm a different kind of boss

I'm cut from a different kind of cloth

These niggas is different kind of soft

Everybody know it all

Nobody followin' protocol

The money's only good 'til you blow it all

Stacking ever since

Guliani knocked John Gotti (what?)

So now he's running for president

It's a shame what the game's became

But the truth is

There's really nobody to blame

But the music

Lets give it a minute

Wtih no wack gimmicks

Just hard beats and rhymes

To blow breath back in it

[Chorus 2: Jadakiss (DJ Khaled)]

One's for the trouble

Two's for the show

Three's for the bass and that limelight glow

I know

(You thinking that this game is over)

Oh no!

(The wait is over)

New York is back!

(Let me see your hands, wave 'em side to side

Put 'em up high, dunk ride cause)

New York is back!

(Let me see your hands, wave 'em side to side

Put 'em up high, lets ride cause)

New York is back!

[Verse 2: Fat Joe]

Muh'fucka I'm the heart and the soul of this

You claim king, but we in control of this

Name another rapper you see on the streets

Huggin' the block at the height of a beef!

(Coca!)

(Crack crack crack crack crack crack)

Yellow tape and white sheets

Yeah, that's my backdrop whenever I speak

I know a lot of y'all would love to ice me

Make my head jerk like I'm doing the hyphy

But that'll never happen, get on some sick shit

Like fifteen in you, and one in your infant

(Owwww!)

Joe's the business, ask about me

In the middle of the desert and they still can't drought me

You know Coka baby he stay on that New York shit

You seen Weezy coming down on that forklift

And money ain't a thing, unless he come up with

Then I'ma have to hit 'em, make a little breads often

[Chorus 3: Fat Joe (DJ Khaled)]

One's for the trouble

Two's for the show

Three's for the bass and that limelight glow

I know

(You thinking that this game is over)

Oh no!

(The wait is over)

New York is back!

(Let me see your hands, wave 'em side to side

Put 'em up high, dunk ride cause)

New York is back!

(Let me see your hands, wave 'em side to side

Put 'em up high, lets ride cause)

New York is back!

[Verse 3: Ja Rule]

New York, New York, nigga, never went nowhere

I just took off a couple of years

But now I'm back on my day-to-day

Old school, Gucci frames like day to day

Who gon' tell New York "Time's up"? Flavor Flav?

Cause as much as things change it remains the same

And you can give me the city of God

And Mecca, the temple, the mosque

An inspiration; the inception, the art

Of hip-hop was born

The rap game was formed

From niggas that's dead broke, sell drugs, bear arms

Against all odds

And argue all day about who's a bigger star; Joe, Jada or Ja?

So close but so far

So many with no start

I can't believe 50 Cent and NY fell off

Then LA came back, then South is running shit

Then one blood group, shit's all developing, NEW YORK!

[Chorus 4: Ja Rule (DJ Khaled)]

One's for the trouble

Two's for the show

Three's for the bass and that limelight glow

I know

(You thinking that this game is over)

Oh no!

(The wait is over)

New York is back!

(Let me see your hands, wave 'em side to side

Put 'em up high, dunk ride cause)

New York is back!

(Let me see your hands, wave 'em side to side

Put 'em up high, lets ride cause)

New York is back!

[Outro: DJ Khaled]

Funkmaster Flex!

DJ Enuff!

Mister Cee!

Cipha Sounds!

Green Lantern!

DJ Absolut!

DJ Camilo!

Kay Slay!

Envy!

Jabba!

Bobby Konders!

Jazzy Joyce!

Cocoa Chanelle!

Angie Martinez!

Fatman Scoop!

Miss Jones!

Ralph McDaniels!

DJ Clue!

Red Alert!

DJ Kid Capri!

DJ SNS!

Warren G!

Doo Wop!

Double R!

Big Mike!

DJ Clark Kent, I got you!

DJ Threat!

Jam Master Jay!

Big Pun!

B.I.G.!

And Free Shyne already!

We the Best!

I'm from Miami-Dade County, Florida

I go by the name of DJ Khaled

And I'm about unity!

I don't care where you from, man!

I'm about unity, man!

I'm about this music, man!

We the Best!

Cool and Dre on the track!

We the best, man!

Listennn!

• Artist:DJ Khaled
• Album:We The Best (2007)