E.K.N.Y. (Ed Koch New York) - R.A. The Rugged Man, Timbo King, Inspectah Deck

I’m a '88er, fly aviator

I been seen the future, way back then on beta

Winning is always better than losing

And winning big is better still

'88er

Rape scandal, Tawana Brawley, New York City

Before Giuliani turned Times Square to Walt Disney

Low cost anesthetic epidemic, seedy, what?

Wall graffiti’d up, cook coke, Scotty, beam me up

Murder rate stats are staggerin', lives unravelin'

Central Intelligence Agency is drug traffickin'

Cops with bad tempers, politicians pushin' their agendas

In the streets, it’s murderers and rapists and sex offenders

With a growin' neurosis, bloodsuckin' bats, vultures are ferocious

Roller coasters of rats and rodents and roaches

Homeless vet with skin rashes from tuberculosis

Narcosis, pimps and hookers and heroin overdoses

Every snitchin' bird chirps, that’s how the world works

These hookers lookin' for who to burn first

Porn theaters and perverts

On your PRO-Keds there’s bloody red spots and a dead cop

Got his head shot on the fed watch, call Mayor Ed Koch

I’m a '88er, straight from the days of the pissy elevator

Teeny boppers, graffiti rockers, cops, and jealous haters

Dangerous back blocks, crack rocks and mad cops who clap shots

Aimin' to kill and steal a stash box

From psycho niggas fightin' with whites and Hasidics

Remember Willie Turks, Yusef Hawkins, and Michael Griffith

N.Y., prolific, kicked it with the lowlifes and Deceps

Who squeeze TECs, G-checkin niggas for weak checks

Sinister dark minds, victims of hard times

Pan Am Flight 103, Central Park Five

Thank Reagan for makin' dealers kingpins, who would think then?

We seein' Ms, all the shipments that slipped in

'88er, architect, camouflage vet

My burner on the train, next to Bernhard Goetz

From the time the space shuttle and Chernobyl exploded

I voted for Dinkins knowin' he would never control it, word

Global cocaine trade, buy and sell, clientele

Drug cartels, crime grime spell, die in Hell

Colombian gun dealers, citizens and cop sadists

Bronx raid, six cops shot by Larry Davis

A '88er, 8 to 88 damn scams can’t fail

Land in jail, with a plan dumb like Dan Quayle

Coke deal in the back streets, everybody sniffed out

From Hollywood stars to celebrity athletes

Hold the crowbar, stole the car, crackhead moonwalkin'

With a Mike Jack' jacket, holdin' a broke VCR

Mommy never get a raise, kids hustle for better days

Crime forever pays, guardian angels with red berets

Ain’t no Spielberg extra-terrestrial phonin' home

Just a homeless guy takin' a piss on the pay phone

They thought AIDS was only for gays, mass confusion

'Til Ryan White, the boy caught it from a blood transfusion

'88er

I’m a '88er, fly aviator

I been seen the future, way back then on beta

I’m a '88er, fly aviator

I been seen the future, way back then on beta

I’m a '88er

Killa Bee

Echoin' through cell blocks and federal pens

I told the people the truth

I spelled out what had to be done, and we did it

Intellectual honesty and integrity, that is how we ran the city

And that’s how we will continue to run this city