New York City, whaddup? Ya'll ready or what?   Check, I think they ready now, baby      It's the return of the Wild Style fashionist   Smashin' hits, make it hard to adapt to this   Put pizazz and jazz in this, and cash in this   Mastered this, flash this and make 'em clap to this      DJ's throw on cuts and obey the crowd   Just pump the volume up and play it loud   Hip-hop's embedded, before I said I wouldn't let it   But me and the microphone is still magnetic      Straight off the top, I knew I'd be forced to rock   Dance floors just stop, the spot's scorchin' hot   Hopin' I open Rakim Allah seminars   Massage at the bar, smokin' ten dollar cigars      While I admire midas, with more vision than TV's   I find it easy catchin' diabetes from fly sweeties   Sit back and wait to hear a slammin' track   Rockin' jams by popular demand, I'm back      I control the crowd, you know I hold it down   When it drop you know it's jiggy when you hear the sound   From town to town, until it's world renowned   And I rock New York City all year around      It's on, you can swerve when it's heard in clubs   Thought patterns displayed on Persian rugs   Equations are drawn up in paisley form   Mic it stay warm, my flow is Evian      Deep as a Nautilus, you stay dipped in Ra style   From the shores of Long Island to Panama Canal   Intellect pitches, new trends like a clothes designer   I'm in effect, quicker than medicines in China      Split the mic open, fill it with somethin' potent to go in   And take a toke then mental planes start floatin'   Hot science is smokin' altitudes cause chokin'   Product is hypnotic, you're soakin' and still smokin'      Better scenes than grams of amphetamines   Plans to scheme, means I'll forever fiend   Long as the mic is loud and the volumes are up      I control the crowd, you know I hold it down   When it drop you know it's jiggy when you hear the sound   From town to town, until it's world renowned   And I rock New York City all year around      I control the crowd, you know I hold it down   When it drop you know it's jiggy when you hear the sound   From town to town, until it's world renowned   And I rock New York City all year around