[Intro]
"Ay y'all, I want to let y'all know
{Smif-N-Wessun} is gonna do this record and the people gonna come up

And do they little thing y'all. {Smif, S-Smif-N-Wessun}
{Pete Rock} One, two {Pete Rock} (SHOUT!)
Y'know my man, you know he's down by law

...{Smif-N-Wessun} in the place to be
We gon' have a lil' fun. {Smif, Smif, Smif, Smif-N-Wessun}
{Pete Rock} You think we got it together yet?

Wassup, wassup how are you?
I need everybody cooperation at this time, c'mon gimme a soul clap"


[Verse One: Tek]
My mind ain't here (Yeah) %#@! been gone (^!$$%!)
^!$$%s can't comprehend the %#@! that I'm on (I'm coo coo for cocoa puffs ^!$$%!)

Raised as a rebel, danced with the devil (WOOOO!!!)
^!$$%s can't get on my level swing at me!!!
I'm history in the makin

Be with the dreads so they think I'm Jamaican (AH BWOY!!!)
They throw consignment on the loan
I get it and I run it back like Thomas Jones

Play my position like a wide out (Like a wide out)
Guns in the slot when I ride out (Slot when I ride out)
And I'm H-N-I-C

From N-Y-C!!! Free Prodigy!!!
Sling more O's than the alphabet
If I ain't got it, they ain't invent it yet

You know the city of the gunplay
Make a million dollars on any given sunday


[Chorus]
[Steele]
We seen hard time


[Tek] (Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessun):
Came from the bottom so we mean on the grind (WE ON TOP OF THE WORLD!)


[Pete Rock]
Big dreams in my eyes


[Steele] (Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessun)]:
Though some fail others succeed over time (WE ON TOP OF THE WORLD!)


[Tek]
And reach for the skies


[Pete Rock] (*Steele) (Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessun):
All you gotta do (*Is believe you can fly) (WE ON TOP OF THE WORLD!)


[Tek]
Go hard


[Steele]
In due time, find true reward


[Pete Rock]
When you shine


[Steele] (Pete Rock)
That's when you on top of the world (We on top of the world)

You on top of the world (We on top of the world)
Top of the world (We on top of the world)


[Verse Two: Memphis Bleek] (Pete Rock)
Top, when I shine, you shine
Everybody get in position in due time

New York State of Mind, always on the grind
Seventeen shots in the 9
Stay away from swine, pigs they be one us

!#@* the informants, tell them mother$#&@ers that I'm tourin
Plus tell the haters, I crossed the equator -- twice
I done seen places where it's six months a night (uh!)

But I come from the crib, flytraps on the ceiling
Roaches on the wall, but I'm hustlin out the building
Smokers cop and go, lady on the phone tellin cops 'bout the flow

But this is Get Low, seen in Jamaica, migratin from the stress
They call us kush gang 'cause we only smoke the best (Best)
With the Smif-N-Wes' (WOO!), Brooklyn show respect
YES!!


[Chorus]
[Steele]
We seen hard time

[Tek] (Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessun):

Came from the bottom so we mean on the grind (WE ON TOP OF THE WORLD!)

[Pete Rock]
Big dreams in my eyes


[Steele] (Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessu)]:
Though some fail others succeed over time (WE ON TOP OF THE WORLD!)

[Tek]
Reach for the skies


[Pete Rock]
All you gotta do (*Is believe you can fly) (WE ON TOP OF THE WORLD!)

[Tek]
Go hard


[Steele]
In due time, find true reward

[Pete Rock]
When you shine


[Steele] (Pete Rock)
That's when you on top of the world (We on top of the world)
You on top of the world (We on top of the world)
Top of the world (We on top of the world)

[Verse Three: Steele] (Pete Rock)
Yeah! I'm in love with New York, I ain't talkin 'bout Tiffany

New York I'm in love with my city
From the grimey to the gritty from the shiny to the ritzy
From the courtyard to the Garden where the Knicks be
Fitted cap Yankee, pitcher like Pettitte
In the dougie blowin stankee
I know how to get it plus the repertoire lanky
I know how to spit it

See me at the world series in the race for the pennant
I'm the New York Giant (Giant) Name on the poster
Couldn't even be as high if you was sittin on my shoulders
Still like I could put the Brooklyn Bridge on my back
Strong high I rep the city I ain't talkin 'bout attack
You can tell where I'm from it don't matter where I'm at
From the Tim's to the grin to the jeans to the strap

With a grand lookin mean to the means we get trapped
Know we mean everything and we scream in our rap

[Chorus]
[Steele]
We seen hard time


[Tek] (Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessun):
Came from the bottom so we mean on the grind (WE ON TOP OF THE WORLD!)

[Pete Rock]
Big dreams in my eyes


Though some fail others succeed over time (WE ON TOP OF THE WORLD!)

[Tek]
Reach for the skies

[Pete Rock] (*Steele) (Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessun):
All you gotta do (*Is believe you can fly) (WE ON TOP OF THE WORLD!)

[Tek]
Go hard

[Steele]
In due time, find true reward

[Pete Rock]
When you shine

[Steele] (Pete Rock)
That's when you on top of the world (We on top of the world)
You on top of the world (We on top of the world)
Top of the world (We on top of the world)

[Outro 5X: Pete Rock Scratchin]