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Welcome Mat

from The Prelude by Illy Mays

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I’m monkey swinging through the concrete jungle
Night sky looking like a star fleet
Plus it got my heartbeat pumping with the traincars rumble
Let the bass thunder through ya carseat..
Aww sweet..
My songs reach the asphault and hard streets
From Nassau and Long beach, to main street
This is a long time coming,
Help school you like co-dean, but more mind numbing
My song shine sonny
Raw rhymes, for the hard times in the grind
Take this piece of mind from me
Standing in the soup line hungry
Dreaming ‘bout pizza pie, when I get a piece of mine, yall all eat from me
I’ll feed yall lovely
So picture this, food for thought
From the gristle bits, to to the skin, I serve it all
Say farewell to welfare, if you notice..
I may not have a house, doesn’t mean that I’m homeless

I’m living in New York – City (Forgetaboutit)
Much more than a place to go
I’m living in New York – City (Home of Brooklyn's Finest)
These walls I call em home (oh you know)
When the sun goes down (what happens?)
And nighttime falls..
That’s when the skyline lights me up (oh it is?)
The people run this town,
It gets me all fired up, (oh you know)
So wipe ya feet off at the door..
If ya entering New York

(spoken)

I just wanna take this time out, to say what up to all my native new yorkers,
and anyone who's ever lived in New York.

Tourists, it's time to cover your ears..



Where I, rest my head is my home
Rolling stone,
All alone in an apple, that’s overgrown
Till I’m skull and bones,
I’ll be known for telling poems
Moving in my lane Like Jesse Owens
Steady growing,
City transit, it spans miles
But I don’t need metro cards, to turn styles I’m
World renown on the bench that I sit
I was in china town, where I switched to the N
Which took me to little Italy, stay was mad short
went to Spanish harlem, ain’t even need a passport
the whole world in my hand, from one source
travel distant lands, and I’m still on my front porch
City living is the hook to my seminar
I’m addicted, quick someone show me to the mini bar
Beyond my limit, it’s seeping through my system yall
You can catch its scent on my breath like the dentists are
The truest spitting bars, ruin the many frauds
‘cause we do it big like ewing did, we superstars
From the knick, to rucker park
Kids playing ball in my yard, as soon as the summer start
It’s all love, I tell you this from my heart
Come to my home and I’ll greet you with open arms
Been there and back, you can be where I’m at
Just be sure to wipe yall feet on my welcome mat

I’m living in New York – City (whattup lady liberty?)
Much more than a place to go
I’m living in New York – City (To my heads in Jamaica, Queens)
These walls I call em home (oh you know)
When the sun goes down
And nighttime falls..
That’s when the skyline lights me up (Long Island City)
The people run this town,
It gets me all fired up, (Bay Plaza)
So wipe ya feet off at the door..
If ya entering New York City (empire state of mind)
Much more than a place to go
I’m living in New York – City (new york life type trife)
These walls I call em home (You didn't know?)
When the sun goes down
And nighttime falls..
That’s when the skyline lights me up (New York, New York, New York)
The people run this town,
It gets me all fired up, (yeah)
So wipe ya feet off at the door..
If ya entering New York

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from The Prelude, track released September 1, 2010
Produced by: Freddy Finger

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Illy Mays New York

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
we're all living life so... Death's a must?

I don't accept it.

-iLLy Mays, Queens, NY
2009

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