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A Letter to the New York Post

Public Enemy

Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black

1991

we got to let 'em know
Here's a letter to the New York Post
The worst piece of paper on the east coast
Matter of fact the whole state's forty cents

state's forty cents
in New York City fifty cents elsewhere
It makes no goddamn sense at all
America's oldest continuously published daily piece of bullshit

State of Grace

Talib Kweli

Gravitas

2014

was Diddy
When it came to the music then she got real picky
From New York, but preferred 2Pac over Biggie
No disrespect to Ms. Wallace, but she liked

Hiphop Knowledge

KRS-One

The Sneak Attack

2001

I, had to go
Cause New York DJ's changed the flows
To clothes and hoes, but that wasn't me
I'll be damned if I dance for the MTV
So in 1998 I began

ALL AROUND THE WORLD

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Masters of the Sun, Vol. 1

2018

Yo, what it is? What it do? What's goodie?
You are now tuned in to the sounds of
A Tribe Called De La Peas
L.A. New York collabo
Y'all know what

I was raised on.
I lost him 6 months prior to the attacks on New York City and the United State,
and uh, that flag that has flown out in our yard has

what the next man does
I listen to Pitbull and Flo Rida
These new niggas sounding like Kanye West
He's a biter not a writer
I'm not impressed
You a lover

it
He only 12 years old so green light go
He put ya brains on the floor with the fo fo

I don't hate niggas niggas just hate cor
Talk of new york shoot

to put this bitch underground)
Had to get to the breesh like New York
Still the same nigga that smoked on new-ports
My bitches be fire, yeah too torch

bitches is pimpin'
Oh and did I mention
Keep me up out your mentions
You bitches ain't soldiers y'all
Just be wantin' attention

Hey yo New York, get

There’s a world of people dying out there
Many of them on the east side
I never staked a claim with the rich folks though I am one
The New York, New

Filtered through the present tense 
Came from Africa  Jamaica to New York
It's the source of these sentences 
Experience ain't relative
But I can relate

New York shit at it's finest
The flow try then/trident, so wet, you can't bite it
I'm so hot you can't burn my CD
But fuck the copyright/copy right?

ain't covered in candy paint
But still the nanny state can't
Fix the diaper rash
I'm pinging this on a cyber cast
Questioning news items playing pattycake

Keep it movin' weightless keep it
Live columbus, Ohio don't stop, don't stop
Campus legends ohio State keep it
Movin' to all the Buckeyes
Printmatic

just My cage
From new York tA pa, from bama Ta philly, and yawl can't really so stop Acting silly alpha audio we to illy
This is fate....

Us young dumb

ritmo in quattro quarti, così mi sto batte|nzzando  
New York state of mind, A.D.I.D.A.S., Run DMC
facevano muovere i culi come  Chuck D 
è sempre forte

Battle Hymn

Planetary

God of the Serengeti

2012

heard of y'all rappers then you gotta be soft
That’s the reason why I talk about the bodies I caught
Bodies in north, New Haven down to New York
If

Pump Your Fist

Cappadonna

The Pillage

1998

competition for pounds in the state of permission 
Conversation bout this kid Killa Bamz 
You want defense  man to man  location Shaolin New York 
It ain't

i take that coffee black black u can tell by my demeanor
Grew up with Puerto Ricans Dominicans n pizza like I was in New York
Suck in out ur soul like

death calling (death calling)
Look at the trees we be hanging, wish it was The Big Apple
Got the New York sound from my family
That's the other state i

Pastor don't be on that bullsh*t

cin't you off to a hell of a start 
In the state of New York getting knocked like you ain't get a degree outta

"I wish I had your blue eyes"
She told me on the train
I looked into that hazel
Said "I could say the same"

She sounded New York City
Like Brooklyn

Everything she do, I love the way she walk
I love the way she move, I love the way she talk
And everything about her cool
And shawty from New York
She never