[Hook]
Diamonds on my wrist, gold around my neck
Money in my pocket, infinite respect

We here ^!$$%, ny never left
We here ^!$$%, ny never left
Diamonds on my wrist, gold around my neck

Money in my pocket, infinite respect
We here ^!$$%, ny never left
We here ^!$$%, ny never left

This thing a battle was born on the south bronx street
A flower began to blossom out the hard concrete
Park jams in the summer, everybody came

2 turn tables, a mike and a doobie change
Adidas on your feet, levi jeans on your legs
Fish net shirt and a kangoo on your head

2 dudes in a battle just to see who the slickest is
This was before the drugs and the ignorance
Card board laid out, hands stand in the back spinnin

Little kids watching, day dreaming and laughing
The whole hood was excited, we created a new wave
And anybody could try it

But you had to have skills
We always known for that rock kim gave me the chills
It's because of him that I'm better

G big daddy came, g rap public enemy
[Hook]
Diamonds on my wrist, gold around my neck

Money in my pocket, infinite respect
We here ^!$$%, ny never left
We here ^!$$%, ny never left

Diamonds on my wrist, gold around my neck
Money in my pocket, infinite respect
We here ^!$$%, ny never left

We here ^!$$%, ny never left
The 90's is here, ny's on a mash out
Big %#@!, mop bought the cats out

Big L and killer had harlem on lockdown
Cnn mob deep, queens held the plot down
Before I even thought about rappin

I started the wu tang from an island in cold stanton
Boot camp from the hood, where I still rest my head at
The name ring bells, get your head cracked

? and the lost boys, beating up synonics
East coast ^!$$%s have respect for the chronic
$#&@ing up suits with totter caps and timbos

Part of the dress code of my kenfos
Playin truth roof, step it up in the booth
And these new york boys were born knowing how to shoot

I brought the lama with me,
You got my city go and listen no nas and 50
[Hook]

Diamonds on my wrist, gold around my neck
Money in my pocket, infinite respect
We here ^!$$%, ny never left

We here ^!$$%, ny never left
Diamonds on my wrist, gold around my neck
Money in my pocket, infinite respect

We here ^!$$%, ny never left
We here ^!$$%, ny never left
I don't care if they say we gone

I'ma continue to murder everything you hear me on
Wave the flag for the burrow in the buildings
Go ahead and catch feelings,

We survive crack dealings
Speaking for them ^!$$%s who ain't got %#@!
Dollar and a dream, lotto ticket and a hot (*##$

Crowded in my city, %#@! looking like a marsh pit
Game full of real ^!$$%s, now it's full of gossip
But my city ain't never left

When it come to that real music, believe me we the best
Bronx and them bad $$#, asap and dizzo
Imagine my ^!$$%s open production from the rizo

New York it's better than it's been in a long time
They tired of that ABC raps, we catching more shots
I got some bangers on deck

And brooklyn is the maker, that's word to m wreck
[Hook]
Diamonds on my wrist, gold around my neck
Money in my pocket, infinite respect
We here ^!$$%, ny never left

We here ^!$$%, ny never left
Diamonds on my wrist, gold around my neck
Money in my pocket, infinite respect
We here ^!$$%, ny never left
We here ^!$$%, ny never left.