[Verse 1]
The temperature’s hot
Jeeps’s with no top
Bouncin’ down the block, playin’ the boomin’ sound
Pumpin’ so hard that it shake the ground
Girls in the back yellin’, “Get down!”
1, 3, 2, Harlem, Uptown
No room for clowns
Like [?] homeboys you get beat down
Yo give me a pound
My complexion is brown
Yeah, that’s the color
If you’re black homeboy, I call you brotha’
But if you’re white, I don’t mean to diss 'ya
And if you’re black homegirl, I call you sista’ in-
[Refrain]
(Harlem!)
Where?
(Uptown!)
(Harlem, Harlem, Uptown)
(Harlem)
(Harlem, Harlem, Uptown)
(Harlem)
[Verse 2]
Gamblin’, scramblin’, clockin’ G’s
Movin’ keys
While they bowl and roll the dice
On thеy knees, in zero degrees
Like honеy, bitches swarm like bees
But everybody roll when Five-O say freeze
The one they caught, didn’t talk
They catch all five doin’ then he walked in...
[Refrain]
(Harlem! Uptown)
(Harlem, Harlem, Uptown)
(Harlem)
(Harlem, Harlem, Uptown)
(Harlem)
[Verse 3]
Girls looking-finger-lickin’ for a brother who’s trickin’
The brother out pickin’, lookin’ for a chicken, yo
I’m not the one to be plucked, ya duck
I don’t give a fuck, son
He get jumped, and bumped, and pumped with a shotgun
My rap is so strong
That I scooped to nun
They say one word, you get outta line
You get done in-
[Refrain]
(Harlem! Harlem)
Where?
(Uptown!)
(Harlem)
(Harlem Harlem)
Where?
(Uptown!)
(Harlem)
(Harlem, Harlem, Uptown)
(Harlem)
(Harlem, Harlem, Uptown)
(Harlem)
(Brothas and sistas!)
(My brothas and sistas!)
(Brothas and sistas!)
(My brothas and sistas!)
(Brothas and sistas!)
(My brothas and sistas!)
[Verse 4]
Turn the lights on in the park
Why’s it so dark?
Before I see him with the cash
Teenagers raping people in Central Park West
Yo, what is this mess?
(My brothas and sistas!)
You don’t know what you’re facin’
Look at what happened to Cat
And Pappy Mason, yo
(My brothas and sistas!)
It’s time to start thinkin’
Like the brothas and sistas who voted for David Dinkins
(My brothas and sistas!)
But they’ve been thinkin’
Yo, our time has come
Like Martin Luther said, we shall overcome
(Brothas and sistas!)
Yo take it slow
If asked to do drugs
Just say no in-
(Harlem!)
(My brothas and sistas!)
(Uptown, Uptown)
(Harlem Harlem, Uptown)
(Brothas and sistas!)
(Harlem)
(Harlem Harlem Uptown)
(My brothas and sistas!)
(Harlem)
What?
(Harlem Harlem Uptown)
(Brothas and sistas!)
(Harlem)
(Harlem Harlem Uptown)
(My brothas and sistas!)
(Harlem)
[Bridge: Pretty Tone Capone]
Aw yeah
(My brothas and sistas!)
Harlem, Uptown, USA you know what I’m sayin?
(Stand Up!)
Harlem #1
I’d like to make a couple shoutouts
(My brothas and sistas!)
Big A, Alpo, and the boys
From where, Harlem, Uptown
(My brothas and sistas!)
Harlem
Harlem, Harlem, Uptown
(My brothas and sistas!)
Harlem, yeah
This Grandmaster Pretty Tone Capone from Harlem, boy
(My brothas and sistas!)
Yeah, big leagues from Harlem, Uptown
(My brothas and sistas!)
Harlem, Harlem
Yeah
Harlem
Uptown
(My brothas and sistas!)
Yeah
All the baddest hoes out there from Harlem
(My brothas and sistas!)
Put your hands together
Where you from?
Harlem
Uptown
(My brothas and sistas!)
Harlem, Harlem
Where you come get your flick on [exact?] kids from Brooklyn
(My brothas and sistas!)
Yeah, where you come
Harlem, Harlem
Yeah, Uptown
(My brothas and sistas!)
Harlem
Where you wanna be seen?
Harlem Harlem Uptown
(My brothas and sistas!)
Yeah
[Outro: Pretty Tone Capone]
Apollo y’all
(My brothas and sistas!)
Amateur night, there ain’t no amateurs right here strictly professionals
(My brothas and sistas!)
Don’t get some, step to me
Where, where?
Harlem Harlem, Uptown
(My brothas and sistas!)
Harlem
(My brothas and sistas!)
1-3-2 location
Harlem
Uptown
(My brothas and sistas!)
Yeah
(Brothas and sistas!)
