Ghostface Killah - Lively Hood lyrics
rate me(Intro)
Bad as in good, good as in hood
Evil lurks in the shadow, I wish a nigga would
(Verse: Ghostface)
Ayo, New York, New York, big city of dreams
But sum' dreams get flushed out and turned to the fiends
By all means it's 24 hours of work
Sum' niggas got that Sour D and sum' got dirt
Sum' is out to bust they heat and sum' just squirt
Sum' bitches can shake they asses, sum' can't twerk
You got Times Square square times, they got lame rhymes
This is Ghost shit, I fuck rats and dimes
These signs are so vivid, the street lights are blarin'
You got filthy rich and greedy niggas you ain't sharin'
Five boroughs, bitches of all flavors
Crooked cops lockin' my peoples behind cages
Wreckin' agents, The Diamond District
Body bags are all stacked up as anotha statistic
Dirty water dogs or Morton's Steakhouse fillets
Staten Island, New York, I love my Shaolin ways
(Hook)
Evil thoughts can lead to sum' positive energy
New York, New York, the baddest place of the century
Bad as in good, good as in hood
Evil lurks in the shadow, I wish a nigga would
Positive thoughts can lead to sum' negative energy
New York, New York, the baddest place of the century
(Verse 2: MF DOOM)
Salute! Most of the livest dudes is dead
Sum' folks bein' polite, sum' rude instead
The meltin' pot is ovaflowin' wit lead
In the winter is brick, the summertime is like a swelterin' hotbed
Manhattan keeps on makin', shakin' fake tits and bacon bits
Putting it on the ritz, forsaken goods from the snake pit
Bootleg bags off Canal is bogus cow skin
You might just see the Riker’s Island bus go by now and then
Thousands of skeletons found under ground zero
Hundreds of years old remains of the brown negro
Built on the backs of immigrants in search of a betta life
But all they get is credit as stress and debt as strife
Or read your rights, dead wrong or dead right
Every night, zombie starin', deer stuck in the headlights
Up in Harlem, got that work
Come and get De Nada Pinata and get jerked
(Intro/Outro)
