Queens Day (feat. Nas & Prodigy from Mobb Deep)

Queens Day, cash made on Hollis Avenue

Make it seem easy

From the days of arm call **** hung around blocks

And corner stores

Herringbone chains and fantasies rushing the door

**** from Rochdale popping shells, snatching rings

Fly from Shirt Kings, from Queensbridge to 118

I had my eyes open, stepping out into the world

So fiendish, Ole English 'til I hurl, growing pains

A young kid, learning early how to know the game

USA Roller Skate rink, mobs and crews would take minks

Clean streets, hustlers, crack cocaine

Gave back by throwing block parties and basketball games

A lotta cash made on Hollis Ave., fast and change

High rollers was living, until the Task Force came

A lotta ghost towns and memories, bad blooded enemies

So many died with the same gangsta pride that entered me

Peace to them old timers, they who taught us

How to stand strong and pass it on to the sons and daughters

We all glow, and I'm proud to be all that I know

Q-B-O-R-O, ****, who I die for

Survival, how we came a long way in solidarity

Don't let nothing try an spoil this day

To Run, D and Jay it's love and my thug salute

Cause real love's the only thing that comes above this loot

Carhart jeans, it makes me think of LL's Troops

Let's celebrate, it's Queens Day, this one's for you

Some come out they hometown and they never get dealt

But three teens from Queens took over the world and never let go

Just regular cats you know that just happened to blow

Not anonymous with Hollis, Jake, Darrell and Joe

Ay yo, we made so that others could grow

Look at LL, A Tribe Called Quest, Mobb and Nas Esco

Ain't taking credit, we showing pride, look at us now

Got haters mouths all open wide, wondering how

In some cases the only thing that father and son

Have in common is they love for Run

Been the illest since day one, I'm too advanced to ever be caught

Who's more legendary than me... that's what I thought

And if somebody wanna test mine, yo, watch this

Peter Piper picked peppers...

And see I knew you knew the next line, and I bet you said it

It's been a minute, I'm still the king of the world so don't forget it

This is for my Q dogs who live the block life, pa

We grew up on Old English, Summertime Roy Wilkins Park

Used to be the shit, why they have to stop

On the Ave **** looting all the jewelry spots

Hit the Shirt Kings for an ill airbrush top

That'll match my Cortez Nikes

**** getting robbed at the back door coming out with bags

We used to get our gold fronts from Eddie's gold caps

What y'all know about that, I bet the whole Queens do

Around '86 with the chrome bass crew

The young guns and Lost Boys made the news

Queensbridge and Astoria, too, the story is true

So let's party for the borough and shit

And everybody come outside, cause it's Queens Day kid