King Of The New York Streets

People called me the scandalizer

The world was my appetizer

I turned gangs into fertilizer

King of the New York streets

I broke hearts like window panes

For breakfast I'd eat nails and chains

To my kingdom I'd proclaim

King of the New York streets

I floored my accelerator

All the way to the equator

Just a local gladiator

King of the New York streets

Well, I was only sixteen years old

So what could I have known?

In my mind these passing years

The legend sure has grown

People come from miles around

To see my royal tenement crown

Always up and never down

King of the New York streets

Schools gave me nothing needed

To my throne I proceeded

Every warning went unheeded

King of the New York streets

I stood tall from all this feeling

I bumped my head on heaven's ceiling

Shooting dice and double-dealing

King of the New York streets

Each time I jumped behind the wheel

Of a pin-striped custom Oldsmobile

The guys would bow and the girls would squeal

King of the New York streets

Local bullies I deflated

Back street jive that I translated

Top Ten girls were all that I dated

King of the New York streets

I didn't need no bodyguard

I just ruled from my backyard

Living fast, living hard

King of the New York streets

Well, I was wise in my own eyes

I awoke one day and I realized

You know this attitude comes from cocaine lies