[00:03.43]Geyeah NYMP the realest uhh
[00:07.51]This is educated thug MU-SIC *z
[00:11.58]Life's a battle mean streets eat you alive
[00:14.39]Blocks'll have you tryin to maintain your course
[00:17.19]Through the potholes and gravel
[00:18.69]Hot holes and what-have-you tryin to clock dough
[00:22.25]Foes tryin to pop shots through you by code
[00:24.68]Pigs tryin to grab you and lock up your soul
[00:27.36]Through the Hot Apple nighttime shots crackle
[00:29.05](bucka bucka bucka) Fiends tryin to gaffle you
[00:32.42]Not only cokeheads but the Feds in the Mercuray Topaz
[00:35.18]After you up the avenue
[00:37.5]Tryin to give you big numbers you got math to do
[00:40.45]Tryin to make you miss summer sh*t that ain't cool
[00:43.15]I caught smaller cases tryin to get cap or two
[00:45.71]Up against the wall tryin to pass through
[00:48.46]Ghost-like hear the cries from the tortured souls
[00:51.14]Most nights I hold my toast tight and it goes like
[00:54.32]Jay-Z
[00:58.5]N Y M P the realest *z
[01:03.24]N Y M P the realest *z
[01:06.24]Uhh uh-huh-uh-UHH N Y M P the realest
[01:11.5]Marcy Brooklyn
[01:14.26]Yo; I come through gettin money sittin on twenties
[01:18.270004]*z throwin me shade but ain't sh*t sunny
[01:21.09]Hot shells only thing *z could get from me
[01:23.59]Cocktails thrown in your living room KA-BOOM
[01:25.96]I'm so confrontational;
[01:28.47]They shoulda never let me go on probation yo
[01:31.34]I'm a hustler; except that
[01:33.32]No correctional facilities can correct that
[01:36.85]I took a step back I viewed myself seen where my head was at
[01:40.53]It's where that dough is homey gotta get that
[01:42.619995]Gotta get away some try but head back
[01:45.07]Uhh street smart *z got left back
[01:48.08]Some died they left stacks
[01:50.03]Me I ball right and on top of that I'm dog nice
[01:53.4]Jigga been cold as f**k before ice
[01:55.9]Not before Christ but a long f**kin time
[01:58.71]Get your mind right *z
[02:02.43]N Y M P the realest
[02:06.05]Uh-huh-uh-UHH N Y M P the realest *z
[02:10.67]Uhh uh-huh uh-UHH N Y M P the realest *z
[02:17.32]Marcy feel me
[02:20.08]I looked Death in the face years back
[02:22.2]I held tears back I gathered myself and stared back
[02:25.33]I'm from where you don't crack the weak don't live
[02:28.02]You gotta bounce back homey the streets don't give
[02:30.76]I take and R**e villages who gon' stop him
[02:33.45999]Not Rudy Guiliani not Hillary Rodham
[02:35.58]Still I still pop him
[02:37.83]Sh*t I grassy knoll and hilltop him it's all political now
[02:42.14]I think big when I spit at you now
[02:44.45]Between my dog and the figures the four gonna get'cha
[02:46.57]Between life and death they killed my spirit
[02:49.5]So what little life I got left y'all can expect me to ball
[02:53.32]I myself teacher said I was a lost cause
[02:56.02]Cause I used to roam them halls
[02:57.64]Still I spit knowledge dropped out of high school skipped college
[03:00.4]Who woulda thought I'd make it "Big" like Ms Wallace
[03:04.46]Uhh yeah N Y M P the realest *z
[03:09.76]Brooklyn what N Y M P the realest *z
[03:15.07]Uhh uh-huh-uh-UHH N Y M P the realest *z
[03:20.68]Marcy Brooklyn N Y M P the realest feel me
[03:27.06]Educated thug mu-sic *z
[03:31.14]This is Brooklyn this is gangsta this is project
[03:37.73]Real sh*t N Y M P the realest *z
[03:42.17]Marcy Brooklyn stompin grounds
[03:46.03]F**k with me