I'm born and raised in New York and still live there and I went to Florida in 2006 for like a month for vacation and played this song all day every day when I was down there!!! I had to represent 😂😂😂
My bad, on my 6th listen I noticed a blasphemous-finger accidentally hit the dislike button. Corrected, as this was fire to me over a decade ago......still is.
Uh, got a lot of heart, best part is I'm clever too Hand skills, hawk work, gun play, whatever, Duke Ecstasy, oxy, Vicodin, powder Ari, Haze, Diesel, Sour Dust juice, loosies, turbans, kufis Hand guns is petite, the shotties is doofy Telling in is not nice, a lot of niggas got life Everything is good in my bank except cocked dice Harlems, Jordans, the hood can't afford them So they bootlegged them, now everybody sport them Dorms, cells, packages, mail Warrants, bails, everything's real now
Where do I Start? Let's see what they wanna hear? Let me see where I started at (Uh) Hood cats are part of where it started at (No doubt) We hustle hard to keep the sharks fear (Yeah) For the score go to war like a jarhead (Hi-Tek!) New York, New York, New York, New York, New York! (Woo!) New York, New York, New York, New York, New York! "We gonna take you all on a little trip to New York City!" With a first hello! Uh! Got alot of heart, best part is I'm clever too Hand skills, hard work, gun play whatever duke Ecstacy, oxy, vicodin, powder Ari, haze, diesel, sour Dust Juice, Lucy's, turbans, kufi's Hand guns is petite the shotties is doofy Talkin in is not nice, lot of niggaz got life Everything is good in my bank except cop dice Harlems, Jordans, the hood can't afford them So they bootleg them now everyday sport them Dorms, cells, packages, mail Warrants, bails, everything's real now Let me see where I started at Hood cats are part of where it started at We hustle hard to keep the sharks fear For the score go to war like a jarhead New York, New York, New York, New York, New York! New York, New York, New York, New York, New York! (Hi-Tek Hi-Tek, Papoose Pa-poose) With a first hello! All I got is my word and my nuts, man I got Brooklyn in my balls So you could see Bed-Stuy if you lookin in my draws Always talkin bout you ballin, look you wanna ball Word on the streets, niggaz ready to put you on the wall You just a leg shooter, you aim your gun low I shoot my tek high I keep a Hi-Tek like the producer Pap ripped the Desi, till that clip is empty Man I'll have black buried in the cemetary Go 'head get your fetti, but you better tell holmes Messin with me will get black buried like a cell phone Punks pay dues not me I pay attention Call it New York cause we keep reinventin' Let me see where I started at Hood cats are part of where it started at {New York} We hustle hard to keep the sharks fear For the score go to war like a jarhead New York New York, New York, New York, New York, New York! New York, New York New York, New York, New York, New York, New York! {With a first hello!} Who flipped the vocabulary? Shadow my adversary buss 'em like vocabulary Roaches and rats in every corner when it's warmer but New York is used to that already Manhattan built the cemetaries where the blacks is buried I take the Staten Ferry I walk to Broadway I talk to chicks along the way with John Forte Used to do this all day burnin in the project hallway Discussin strategies in the court case I rock the Northface cold like winter I'm from Brooklyn like the D-Cep and low life niggaz word Fuck the talking it's a New York thing We aboard but, all things considered we all kings, what Let me see where I started at Hood cats are part of where it started at We hustle hard to keep the sharks fear For the score go to war like a jarhead New York, New York, New York, New York, New York! (My nigga my nigga whattup, Tek you did it again nigga!) New York, New York, New York, New York, New York! (Word up I love that) With a first hello! Aiyyo yo, I rhyme for the streets broke niggaz rap when they feast Who angry as hell, we yell from the beast Wise killers up in New York, who lay for peace Crime action get you trapped by the chief, no PC Proud and have the hood stylin' good talent most of us tellin' Drug wars, try to re-up, the law whylin' Can't get no rest, the vest is on stress pound it Schemin on somethin' green, we eagles on the chef found it While I take a trip back my first little pack Had to open doors no time for broads I was scopin' crack Baggin like a newborn, barely profit beef pop off We carry Tommy guns and smoke trees and grab pockets Pilgrimage life, real like with no money and no white I had this white girl who work for me wipin pipe Livin' by the sword, a hundred niggaz daily Who get on board and kill for some proper live on them acres board Let me see where I started at Hood cats are part of where it started at We hustle hard to keep the sharks fear For the score go to war like a jarhead New York, New York, New York, New York, New York!
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2022 and this still gives goosebumps 🔥🔥
This is the best New York themed track ever.
This is the best track ever*
100% agreed.
Jada killed this clearly.
Still banging this...2025
This why I wanna visit New York.
New York, New York, New York, New Yorkkkk.... 1:22
Talib came through like juggernaut.
Real hip hop,respect to whoever finds there way here. May you be respected. 2020 and beyond
Knew it was classic
Since first time
I saw it on them
Street dvds
Got better with age
God bless 🙌
This is Kweli’s greatest verse ever
Playing this before the Knicks game 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾let’s go Jalen and company 👍🏾👍🏾👊🏾
I'm born and raised in New York and still live there and I went to Florida in 2006 for like a month for vacation and played this song all day every day when I was down there!!! I had to represent 😂😂😂
STILL THE DOPENESS!!![999]
*Sean Price should of been on this track! RI🅿* 2:28
2023 remember this when first came out 🔥 fire
2024 Rocking to this Rn 🔥🔥🔥🔥
What's more hip hop than this?
Nothing
If someone asked for an example of classic boom bap NYC East coast hip hop this is exactly what you show them.
This song is to let y'all know where hip hop started at. And that's New York. I just love my city.
pap kills it bra
I'M FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA... MUCH PROPS ALL DAY ✊😤
i remember watching this when it first came out. amazing.
NY hiphop for life
76k views somethings off in this world
Hi-Tek - "Where It Started At (NY)" (feat. Jadakiss, Papoose & Talib Kweli) [Official Video] Saludo BRAZIL SÃO PAULO
Ohhh baby....3 of NYCs hottest rappers ever going for hottest verse ... Nothing beats it
This pigeon at the start is more gangsta than the whole fuckin mumble rappers today
dey don't make music like this no more.. (REAL HIP HOP)
Still Bangin in 2020 ❤️❤️💯💯
2021 👌🏿
If you not from NYC don't waste ya time CLASSIC!!!!
Facts
Love to Hi Tek ... My man from The Natti .. Came with that realness
Prime Time facts!! Bx
This shit hard and I’m not from New York. This just a hard ass song and ain’t no one who grew up in the 90’s go hate on this.
does NYS count,
Stopped by for paps verse 🚬
PAP SPAZZED, CLASSIC
Happy 44th to Hi-Tek 2020!!!
classic track!
Jadakiss !!! TALIB!!!!
I love my city nyccccccccc
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
How is jada on two of the best most represented anthems for this great grimey state…no place like home…
Hi-tek is that dude!!!
Got a lotta heart , best part is I’m clever too 💯
This is why Tekzilla jacked the Knicks logo and made it his. NATI
Jada bodied that
Dam i had this on my phone yearssssss ago cant believe i found it.
Hip hop foreva!
2023…who still here
Here
@1:20 they swiped that Metrocard in the wrong way. any other New Yorkers caught that? lol
I caught that one too man...Every 10 year old in NYC knows you always swipe with the MetroCard name facing you lmao!
My man from the Natti reppin hard for NY
Who still bumpin this killa shit in 2022?
Papoose!
Great all time music ..kiss papp ray
And talib. Wow
RIP SEAN PRICE
Damn,kiss knows his pill work..hahaa
Gotta wear ur timbs and ny fitted listening to this
still a hot song the beat is sick
We’re gonna take u on a lil trip down to New York City
So none of y’all gonna say that Dion Dimucci killed them vocals? He’s from the 50’s put some damn respect on him
Ayo facts. This was my shit in high school.
this song is dope
Fya-song...Fabolous missing soo badly though😥
I love East Coast Rap especially Ny
The Mecca of hip hop.
@@whoknows4379 Yes Bro,that's right...
This is mad nice, respect!!
🔥
Its actually funny the amount of views this has. This song has more in it than the whole trap genre.
Still lit 2017
I remember I smoke my 1st blunt to this song cursing thru hoodz
Never knew vizual for this
2023 we still here
2:40 💯
Raekwon was in the vid that came out in 06'.
HI-TEK JADA
fire
"UGH!"
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
wtf they cut out Raekwons verse
🎤🔥
War on drugs is a joke
2024
My bad, on my 6th listen I noticed a blasphemous-finger accidentally hit the dislike button. Corrected, as this was fire to me over a decade ago......still is.
2022 here
Just in case niggas need to be reminded HA!!! It's all love... but when you try to stunt on the BIRTHPLACE OF THIS RAP SHIT... Just watch this...
Marc NY the Mother Land best believe
Papose barley kept up on this
Fukcîng Bolgna lol what?
"Hood cats a part of where it started at...."
A HAAAAAAAAA
2022
Uh, got a lot of heart, best part is I'm clever too
Hand skills, hawk work, gun play, whatever, Duke
Ecstasy, oxy, Vicodin, powder
Ari, Haze, Diesel, Sour
Dust juice, loosies, turbans, kufis
Hand guns is petite, the shotties is doofy
Telling in is not nice, a lot of niggas got life
Everything is good in my bank except cocked dice
Harlems, Jordans, the hood can't afford them
So they bootlegged them, now everybody sport them
Dorms, cells, packages, mail
Warrants, bails, everything's real now
Wow the top 10 dead or alive on 1 track. Don’t @ me
HOT SHIT
Hey what happened to Talib Kweli and Rae verses
I came here just to see that pigeon
Top5###sheek !sp an who else jada/\
sample
name?
Y'all all wrong, Talib thumped it out
verses too short
Jada is not from New York City.
Jadakiss destroyed everybody! Pap couldn't keep with either on this track.
Super Jada but Papoose rarely got those bars...
MORE FAMILY MEMBERS TO KHVP REAL CASH NYC HIRE FOR MURDER
Where do I Start? Let's see what they wanna hear?
Let me see where I started at (Uh)
Hood cats are part of where it started at (No doubt)
We hustle hard to keep the sharks fear (Yeah)
For the score go to war like a jarhead (Hi-Tek!)
New York, New York, New York, New York, New York! (Woo!)
New York, New York, New York, New York, New York!
"We gonna take you all on a little trip to New York City!"
With a first hello!
Uh! Got alot of heart, best part is I'm clever too
Hand skills, hard work, gun play whatever duke
Ecstacy, oxy, vicodin, powder
Ari, haze, diesel, sour
Dust Juice, Lucy's, turbans, kufi's
Hand guns is petite the shotties is doofy
Talkin in is not nice, lot of niggaz got life
Everything is good in my bank except cop dice
Harlems, Jordans, the hood can't afford them
So they bootleg them now everyday sport them
Dorms, cells, packages, mail
Warrants, bails, everything's real now
Let me see where I started at
Hood cats are part of where it started at
We hustle hard to keep the sharks fear
For the score go to war like a jarhead
New York, New York, New York, New York, New York!
New York, New York, New York, New York, New York!
(Hi-Tek Hi-Tek, Papoose Pa-poose)
With a first hello!
All I got is my word and my nuts, man I got Brooklyn in my balls
So you could see Bed-Stuy if you lookin in my draws
Always talkin bout you ballin, look you wanna ball
Word on the streets, niggaz ready to put you on the wall
You just a leg shooter, you aim your gun low
I shoot my tek high I keep a Hi-Tek like the producer
Pap ripped the Desi, till that clip is empty
Man I'll have black buried in the cemetary
Go 'head get your fetti, but you better tell holmes
Messin with me will get black buried like a cell phone
Punks pay dues not me I pay attention
Call it New York cause we keep reinventin'
Let me see where I started at
Hood cats are part of where it started at {New York}
We hustle hard to keep the sharks fear
For the score go to war like a jarhead New York
New York, New York, New York, New York, New York!
New York, New York
New York, New York, New York, New York, New York!
{With a first hello!}
Who flipped the vocabulary? Shadow
my adversary buss 'em like vocabulary
Roaches and rats in every corner
when it's warmer but New York is used to that already
Manhattan built the cemetaries where the blacks is buried
I take the Staten Ferry I walk to Broadway
I talk to chicks along the way with John Forte
Used to do this all day burnin in the project hallway
Discussin strategies in the court case
I rock the Northface cold like winter
I'm from Brooklyn like the D-Cep and low life niggaz word
Fuck the talking it's a New York thing
We aboard but, all things considered we all kings, what
Let me see where I started at
Hood cats are part of where it started at
We hustle hard to keep the sharks fear
For the score go to war like a jarhead
New York, New York, New York, New York, New York!
(My nigga my nigga whattup, Tek you did it again nigga!)
New York, New York, New York, New York, New York!
(Word up I love that) With a first hello!
Aiyyo yo, I rhyme for the streets broke niggaz rap when they feast
Who angry as hell, we yell from the beast
Wise killers up in New York, who lay for peace
Crime action get you trapped by the chief, no PC
Proud and have the hood stylin' good talent most of us tellin'
Drug wars, try to re-up, the law whylin'
Can't get no rest, the vest is on stress pound it
Schemin on somethin' green, we eagles on the chef found it
While I take a trip back my first little pack
Had to open doors no time for broads I was scopin' crack
Baggin like a newborn, barely profit beef pop off
We carry Tommy guns and smoke trees and grab pockets
Pilgrimage life, real like with no money and no white
I had this white girl who work for me wipin pipe
Livin' by the sword, a hundred niggaz daily
Who get on board and kill for some proper live on them acres board
Let me see where I started at
Hood cats are part of where it started at
We hustle hard to keep the sharks fear
For the score go to war like a jarhead
New York, New York, New York, New York, New York!
2021 👎🤮