(Intro) Minnie Riperton sample plays :

(G5 Elz) N***a thought I wasn't gonna do it. (Laughs) Yo keep everything. Good evening. I would like to welcome yall to The N.Y Times

(Hook) [Halftime]

What if you had one shot
Can't flop can't drop
Uh huh
You gotta give it all you got
To make it out the hood to where it's good
And up off the block
You gotta give it all you got
What if you had one shot
Can't flop can't stop uh huh
You gotta give it all you got
To make it out the hood to where it's good
And up off the block

(Verse 1) [Halftime]

As I look out
And analyze the life we live
Placed past the bridge to play as kids
To eventually grow up and handle our biz
Surround by ball players smoke all day-ers
Name Sayers money makers
Money takers
Cats will break ya
If they find where they can shake ya
But I love em
Who said I wouldn't do it for the hood
What is said to represent the total opposite of good
Never doing what's right but we doing what we should
Talking about the hoody wearers
Gun bearers
Bring you terror
Down for whatever
Trues timbs and pelle pelle leathers
Endeavor through any weather
If it make they state of living better
They pull ya card better get it together
Don't act hard core if you ain't got a hard core
Cause it's deeper then all day
Chillin at the store
The scenery is monotound
Nothing to galvanize
People screw they faces when they pass in they rides
(Hook) [Halftime]

What if you had one shot
Can't flop can't drop
Uh huh
You gotta give it all you got
To make it out the hood to where it's good
And up off the block
You gotta give it all you got
What if you had one shot
Can't flop can't stop uh huh
You gotta give it all you got
To make it out the hood to where it's good
And up off the block


(Verse 2) [G5 Elz]

For the five boroughs

Life's a bitch
But da goal is to get rich
Now I sit and reminisce
My days on
The boulevard
Sellin M&Ms
To get new kicks
Fitteds
And polo fits
Taking money flicks
White rum sips
First blunt hits
At 14
I flipped my first nicks
Like sidekicks
Back when Marbury was
A point guard on da knicks
Late nights in the park
Letting blunts spark
After dark
Until the gunplay spark
You Gotta get smart
Living in the concrete jungle
You must remain humble
Make mistakes
Or watch them
Learned that from my uncle
I rocked R4 Shox
Knife in my Marmot
Running from Jamaica Ave cops
On the coli block
Tryna get a name
After school
Robbing n***as on the train
With the YRF gang
(southside)
Selling loosies
On the ave
Or becoming a Harvard grad
You make your own path
Like Gps in a cab
(Hook) [G5 Elz]

What if you had one shot
Can't flop can't drop
Uh huh
You gotta give it all you got
To make it out the hood to where it's good
And up off the block
You gotta give it all you got
What if you had one shot
Can't flop can't stop uh huh
You gotta give it all you got
To make it out the hood to where it's good
And up off the block

Uptown give it all you got
Brooklyn give it all you got
Queens give it all you got
Strong Island give it all you got
Staten Island give it all you got
Boston give it all you got
Philly give it all you got
Chi-town give it all you got

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