Yo, Preem, play me that Billy Joel joint
Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighborhood
Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood
But I'm taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River line
I'm in a New York state of mind
Steel toe construct' walk, Nike shorts at night it caught
Stress'll cut your life short
I'm from egg rolls and duck sauce
Where the feds rolled on Dutch Shultz City Island and Sei Less
Plenty talented kids, stay blessed, gamble and make bets
Throw on some DMX his words, they live in all of us
Some get deported, some die young, but it's all a rush
On Part Two, I left you with two of my friends
And now our goals is that our sons don't end in juvenile pens
Rikers should be closed, MDC to Beacon
Wear ice if you real, or they'll rob you and pawn your piece in
If you was locked down for a while, it's a different place now
They building hotels where it once was a devil's playground
Michelin star's cool, but the streets is cooking that beef stew
That chopped cheese too
Screwface how we smile
They want us gone, but that's fine
'Cause we really outside for now and all time
That New York state of mind
Some folks like to get away
Part Three, three times for NYC
Take a holiday from the neighborhood
Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood
What a city
But I'm taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River line
Knicks, Mets, Yanks, Jets, Nets, Giants, Islanders, Rangers, the World
I'm in a New York state of mind
And we got fit jumping up
Hittin' pull-ups and dips on scaffoldings
Potholes still be hard on our whips
Never ending nightlife, supermodels, events, some art galleries
I can name some clubs that no longer exist
The Limelight, The Tunnel, and The Palladium
All night we stayed in them fly
Wave in the sky if you was made it in NY
And wouldn't trade it to the day that you die
The most hated and I think we know why
Now, rappers we know as legends drift and float to Heaven
Some are living in present-day I miss '87
In Queens, was a teen then, a kid with a chain
Holding a pen and wrote pain, we'll never see this again
So I let Ring replace the peep holes, I'm suited in boutique clothes
We're just inclined to defeat foes
The five boroughs where real life is defined, y'all know the time
When I'm in the New York state of mind
Some folks like to get away
The opposition teams walk in the garden, mockingly rockin' Timbs and the Nas tee
Take a holiday from the neighborhood
They only trolling and that's fine, 'cause we outside for the third time
Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood
But I'm taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River line
That New York state of mind, wipe your feet when you step in my house though, ha, ha ha
I'm in a New York state of mind
Let them know! Yeah
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