One time One time... thats it Yeeeaaahhh This the Onyx shit know what I'm sayin Coming out the mother fucking crevices Coming out the fucking cracks like snakes boy Word to mother All my niggas in Queens and ya dont stop All my niggas in Brooklyn and ya dont stop All my niggas Uptown and ya dont stop All my niggas in the boogiewoogie and ya won't stop We gonna set this shit New York style We don't throw gang signs in New York We just be on some shit in New York New York City, shiftee low down gritty You punk niggas yell pity and smell shitty NYPD can suck my dick This is the way we rip shit from the bricks Walking like a zombie smoking blunts in the lobby I be rollin with more niggas behind me than Khadafi Attention, fuck all that slippin and itchin I'm rappin, loot snachin, stayin greasy this shit ain't easy I'm comin rawhide, serious as a four five Them damn streets are eager to claim all lives But fuck it, it's my home hate it or appreciate it It's the torrid 8 million story orientated Designated and made for the real renegades So I never been afraid to stomp, comp, then get paid This is the way we walk in New York This is the way we walk in New York This is the way we walk in New York This is the way we walk in New York I'ma stay on my job, cause that's my adventure I was bred to be a big gainer who contained a precent of the U.S.G. which make me switch like a schizo Where I roam it gets so hot but never blow my cool at no spot If the heat got too much I'ma slide down south Outta town bound, either home or away New York hold shit down on keep locked we rock all night And if Zoo York niggas wasn't part of your shit, your shit wasn't right We known to start shit up from trends, to riots, to fracas And big enough to fuck up anybody that wanna attack us And that's cause the five boroughs are deep Most of us are peeps, true Zoo York niggas we play for keeps (Wanna be a part of it--New york is always starting shit) Fuck that, I'm the nasty native New Yorker The full of shit talker The dark street walker Sign of the time stalker Bringin it back to reality, this is for my niggas in NYC Not since '76 Since the Knicks won the championships Has there been some more shit like this So back up, get off of that soft or wack rap style My shots ring loud, and panic the crowd Blowin' up Get up, my sounds downtown Hold 'em up Give me everything right now So fuck the mayor, fuck Rudy, Ray, and the governor Ya'll niggas couldn't walk my walk, my talk's ruggeder This is the way we walk in New York This is the way we walk in New York This is the way we walk in New York This is the way Yeah, I'm from the place where criminals is born And Sticky Fingaz ain't never led a nigga wrong Representin New York City and for what it's worth Yo we the triflest mother fuckers on the face of this Earth So if you don't like your life fuck with a nigga from New York The instincts we got is to shoot first then talk But what seems to always gives us away is our "niggery" walk And I speak from experience, so pleader take heed to advice We sellin guns and drugs and sex or anything for the right price The crime rate's so goddamn high, we had to name the shit twice Cause tourists be scared to death to visit the criminal's paradise Home of bloodshed and tears and for souvenirs there's fears It appears nobody cares so say your prayers Or you gonna get double crossed and set up, either head up or shut up Cause bullets ain't got no names and anybody could get wet up And end up on the front page of the Daily News papers But while crooks dressed in Brooks and behind desks in skyscrapers And I never bought no shit, but then I never took no shit I'm a kleptomaniac, I think I got a fuckin' habit So lick shot to all the boroughs and ghettos across the nation Other states who could relate get bullet proof appreciation Cause This is the way we walk in New York This is the way we walk in New York This is the way we walk in New York This is the way we walk in New York This is the way we walk in New York This is the way we walk in New York This is the way we walk in New York This is the way - this is the way - this is The way we walk in New York