New York (ya Out There?) - Rakim

[from the movie _Wildstyle_ 
If you was born in New york City let me hear say "You know that"! 
YOU KNOW THAT 

Aiyyo  once upon a rhyme where the scenery sets  you see stress 
Streets a matter of life and death  no regrets 
Life's a test  strife  wit special effects 
Neighbourhood's full of reps  cities are projects 
Where the young cadets get stripes from the vets 
And comrades quest to be the next, to finess 
Collect debts and select bets with death threats 
Object - Chedder, better your total net 
Where trends are set from ways to express the outfits 
Friends get wet tryin' to make ends connect 
Avenues to check, boulevards to sweat 
The smell of gunsmoke more common than cigarettes 
WE GOT clicks for wreck 
WE LIKE Pits for pets 
WE GOT Giants and Jets, the Knicks, Yanks and Mets 
WE LIKE much respect and sex extra wet 
And High-Tech dialect you ain't catch yet 

(The Bronx 
Ya out there? 
No doubt 
Brooklyn 
ya out there) 

[Rakim] 
Aiyyo, we got blocks and glocks with 
big shots with big knots and big props 
yo this is where the bullshit stops 
where herbs get got 
if you snitch you get shot 
we get down and leave the town in a state of shock 
WE GOT dangerous hang out spots and slick cops 
place called Riker's Island where kids get locked 
a lotta gear to rock with blocks of clothes shops 
styles are top notch, this is the place to buy 
so bust the box the radio station is hot 
ease your mind staring at skylines from rooftops 
flip scripts for chips 
and new Whips of the lot 
quick to call a shot, pollitic with thick plots 
and eh, Carnegie niggers a see what we got 
to make