Getting Up Anthem: Part 1

Subway

Subway surfing

New York City

Okay let's go

Getting Up

Shout out to Marc Ecko

Talib Kweli

It's confidential

Yo-- I come from a two fare zone it seem like

Just yesterday I had to take the 2 and the 5 to the Junction and walk the rest of the way

You can catch a bus with a transfer

But waiting for that surface transit is a bitch

I avoid it like a cancer

I'm heavy in the streets like crack in New York in '86

I was riding the A with the R in my walk man

With thieves and 'lo-lifes I can tell you stories of fighting for my glory on the subway like the Warriors

Young mans rights of passage

Through the belly of the beast

With the working classes, homeless and the purse snatchers

We used to hop and never drop a token over the turnstiles Edward Moses

And run from the cops like Jesse Owens

Tracks stars riding in between the cars

The Bronx and Queens don't seem that far

Looking at the map cause every single Ave we rep'

The people don't look at each other

They starin' straight ahead

On the Subway

Subway Surfing

Subway Move On

Subway

Subway Surfing

Subway Move On

Subway

Subway Surfing

Subway Move On

Subway

Subway Surfing

Subway

Move onnn

I used to roll through the hood, a good ride

Keep my mental entertained

And find higher thoughts

Past levels never seen

Any cost through New York's five boroughs on the train

Subway

Iron horse

Slash ghetto limousine

Back when hip hop was just bubblin' in 3-D

That's when a metropolis was covered in graffiti

More color than TV

Just watchin' while ridin' through the metropolitan rock a

And came to a brother easy

Bucktown to Uptown