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(What happened to Atlanta)

You remember 9th Ward ran the city?
Pull up with that shit
I did a song with every nigga that's bigger than a bitch

and on the charts
I got creative took the money that I made
And bought a beat machine now it's
Me and T-Dot up late
And I volunteer at detention centers
To be

definitely in the building
Brooklyn, Harlem World
(Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City)
Stand the fuck up!

[Jay-Z]
I'm a B.K. brawler
Marcy

We look to the city for guidance
We pray that we find it
We search the city for guidance
Gridlocked with those
Who would prey on our findings
We ask

Welcome to New York City

Jay-Z

Come Home with Me [Clean]

2002

definitely in the building
Brooklyn, Harlem World (Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City)
Stand the fuck up!

[Jay-Z]
I'm a B.K. brawler

what we do
My name is

Now we in the A, ain't talking Alabama
Summertime in the city we living in Atlanta
A-T-L-A-N-T-A, no playing in GA
The real Hawk's

Peace up Atlanta west is where I stay, I Stay
Got to know how to move round in a, Da A
But this rapping shit brought me back to the a, Back

family out of East Detention
And out of Pine Hills Funeral Center
Spots we got no business enterin'
Back when Jill Scott was the apple of my afrocentric

the gangstas
Lead be example, all of my shit done got handled
Pole on me like I'm in Magic City, in Atlanta 
But I'm in the back of a Phantom

Pole on me

and fightin'
In juvenile detention centers, incitin' riots
In the studio, two nights in off a gram of that meth
Water whippin' in my kitchen, sticks

Yeah
Glahh
Tuh
Uh
Aye turn me up though
Yeah aye
Ain't talkin' Mariah, the beat I'm a carry
The best in my city, my shoulders they heavy
They thought

ya girl she riding dick and
Watching you cheer from the benches, kissing ass to get attention
She stay late like detention, man y'all boys ain't

better
I see my image, in the lesser of privilege
Cause, them boys, gone remember
This is elephant village
Cap guns no fun they say, they make that city

Neck uv da Woods

OutKast

Let's Get Ready [Clean]

2000

sounds from the center of the sun
Reason for a gun, only one
Strong believer in self-preservation
Aahhhhh, oof
In the state of confused
City of forgotten

Neck uv da Woods

OutKast

Let's Get Ready

2000

the impact and I ain't even in Miami
Handlin' with my man 'nem in Atlanta

And they play me 'cause they know I bring the kinda shit you feelin
As I'm

so you never know my feelings
Came from Atlanta, city full of drug dealing
Raised by a hustler, my daddy made a killing
Niggas dying young so I got

Neck uv da Woods

OutKast

The Wood

1999

the impact and I ain't even in Miami
Handlin' with my man 'nem in Atlanta

And they play me 'cause they know I bring the kinda shit you feelin
As I'm

to the sky 
I can admit that im shy
Up and beyond like a kite
Snatching the bag then I fly


I've been staring at the city lights 
Pull up to your crib then we

Shout out to my people
In Calli Atlanta New York
St Louis Chicago Baltimore
Ya feel me Houston Ya feel me

Virginia is my state
Hampton is my city

of a first generation
Born in this crooked nation
Stressing over moms and pops' documentation
Cuz detention centers are just camps of concentration
What's

Habitat

Q-Tip

Black on Both Sides

1999

ya at (to the center or the heart of people)

I came up in the street around some real wild brothers
With more than one name and more than one baby

unified go, Boom
Now I was Macon, GA raised, Atlanta, GA educated
AUC my family if anybody askin’ me
Born as a Christian, grew up learnin’ Islam
Both taught

phone on vibrate
No you can't hit my line
Everything good
Is everything fine
As long as we vibe on a friday night
This my center piece my love
It's all

don't need a benz 
To be the center of attention 
Just interrup class in the middle of school 
And get a detention i mentioned 
Everybody under tension