I got a fist full of dollars and a one track mind
 
 I gotta find what I'm looking for in the dead of night
 
 3rd and 4e buildings to the sky I've got one last chance to get high to get high
 
 New York City might be the place to be
 
 If your game is tight and if your green takes flight
 
 Take another chance on the place that don't sleep
 
 Creep on the sidewalks listen as she sleeps 
 
 I'm back and I'm down for whatever Tribe Called Quest is in the CD player
 
 Trik Turner bill boards in Time Square
 
 No west coast G's just east coast players
 
 Strike up a Newport sippin on my import gotta get that buzz
 
 For them clubs that be what I see
 
 Ok MCs in my pathway better make room I'm divin' deep into the groove
 
  
  It's been a long time since I got down
 
 Been a long time since I got down baby
 
 So take a look around it ain't nothing nice
 
 If your caught slippin' just another
 
 Day in the life of that New York living
 
 Where fast times makes for fast ways 
 
 In and out with the latest craze
 
 It takes more than the average to amaze
 
 The typical New Yorker can make you 
 
 Or break you either way it changes you
 
 To something that you thought you'd never be
 
 From rags to riches or riches to rags
 
 Everyone plays a part you can see on
 
 The faces of places and things that you've
 
 Never seen it's all about the dollar dream
 
 Owning millions have a penthouse in the tallest
 
 Buildings I'm going all the way forget what
 
 The critics say its all about them royalties
 
 If you don't like it then suck on these!
  
 
 I said I'm back in the New York Groove
 
 I said I'm back in the New York Groove!
  
 
 Pull up the 6 4 and open the door 
 
 We got models galore never seen us before
 
 We swoop about ten and pick up a friend
 
 We sticken shorties that kid prince
 
 Taught me naughty this click is chillin
 
 Yo we top billin' 
 
 New York Groove is how we livin'