Tonedeff - Reppin' Lovely lyrics

I’m live and direct from the city
That built the definitive skyline
Of highrises and bright lights that are
Liable to diminish your eyesight
And where time flies so quick that even
The minute is named after it
Where change happens so fast
That all of your memories ain’t accurate
Spray cans depict these images in the
Same fashion as stained glass
And you gotta scrape cash together to
Pay half of the state tax
Where the main transportation remains
Fastened to train tracks

Where rich kids try to look broke and
The broke aim to be Dame Dash
It’s a place battered and bruised that’s been
Blackened and blued as days passed
Abused, shattered
Entombed and exhumed after
Them planes crashed and came back swinging
With a renewed passion and faith gathered
To face facts and to move on
Knowing this place matters
A Babylon and Utopia wrapped in one
Don’t lose hope or you’ll have to run to
New slower coasts where the pace staggers
This transplanted inhabitant never brags
Of a native status
But, I’m glad that at least a
Piece of the Big Apple, i’ve had it

Cause it don’t matter where you’re from
Only if you’re reppin lovely
Come on, hey hey hey
It doesn’t matter where you’re at
Only if you’re reppin lovely
Come on, what ya say now
Cause you can say what you want
You can do what you need
But, you gotta put it down right now
It doesn’t matter where you’re at
Only if you’re reppin lovely
Come on, hey hey hey