Lively Hood

[Chorus: Ghostface Killah] Bad as in good, good as in hood Evil lurks in the shadow, I wish a nigga would [Verse 1: Ghostface Killah] Ayo, New York, New York, big city of dreams But some dreams get flushed out and turned to the fiends By all means it's 24 hours of work Some niggas got that Sour D and some got dirt Some is out to bust they heat and some just squirt Some bitches can shake they asses, some 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 blaring You got filthy rich and greedy niggas you ain't sharing Five boroughs, bitches of all flavors Crooked cops locking my peoples behind cages Wrecking majors, the Diamond District Body bags are all stacked up as another statistic Dirty water dogs or Morton's Steakhouse fillets Staten Island, New York, I love my Shaolin ways [Chorus: Ghostface Killah] Evil thoughts can lead to some 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 some negative energy New York, New York, the baddest place of the century [Verse 2: MF DOOM] Salute! Most of the livest dudes is dead Some folks being polite, some rude instead The meltin' pot is overflowin' with lead In the winter it's brick, the summertime is like a sweltering hotbed Manhattan keeps on makin', shakin' fake tits and bacon bits Put it on a ritz for shakin' glitz in the snake pit Bootleg bags off Canal is bogus cow skin You might could see the Riker’s Isle bus go past every 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 better life But all they get is credit as stress and debt as strife Or read your rights, dead wrong or dead right Erry night, zombie starin', deer stuck in the headlights Up in Harlem, got that work Come and get De Nada Pinata and get jerked [Chorus: Ghostface Killah] Bad as in good, good as in hood Evil lurks in the shadow, I wish a nigga would