We built this city

We built this city

We built this city

We built this city on rock



We built this city (on these blocks we hustle)

We built this city on rock (on rock)

We built this city (turn bricks to whips)

We built this city on rock and roll (on rock)

We built this city (in the midst of the struggle)

We built this city on rock (on rock)

We built this city (from bottom to top)

We built this city (through the agony and pain, diplomatic will reign)



[Jimmy Jones]

Ay yo, my dipset Taliban

We on these streets like the wars on them streets of Afghanistan

Better yet of Pakistan

To America, Harlem's our cater

Any problems I spray her that can startle the mayor

But in this 50-block radius let's get the rock and shave the shit

or get the glock and blaze the shit

Bitches get the cock and savor it

They say Jim Jones the capo my favorite

Cause some of this shit my city wasn't built up over

Drugs and money, some shit you get killed up over

Slumped on your wheel, straight tilt it over

Trust me dogs, I seen it in peril

Niggaz wasted and painted and seen on the mural

(That's Harlem) In this apple of mine is rhyme

Clap up your shines, pop shots that will crack up your minds

And cop rocks and cook that crack up to dimes

New York City, the capital of crime



[Chorus: repeat 2X]



[Juelz Santana]

Now once again it's Santana the Great

I built this city on hammers and weight

Gasoline, rope, bandanas and tape

Lots of fiends, lots of coke being handed away

You know, the usual

Shut em down, set up show, how we usually do

Cut em down, hit the block man, we movin through

Diplomats is the strongest force

On and off the court we ballers more than sport