Re-Elect Dinkins

By Team Facelift

On 6 Grams

Released on January 4, 2011

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[Chorus]

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor


[Verse 1: Machine]

This New York Knick flying

Jetting with some Giants

Or raging in Long Island

Bronx Bombing with some Lions

In my city that's the client

The product I'm supplying

Words got 'em wilding like a Rikers Island riot

Yeah, I'm shining what I'm writing

Every letter will win

I'm trying to have Manhattan rock me more than cheddar Timbs

Rest in peace to the 9

When weed was a fine

And Rockefeller was a governor

Not some jail time

It's Machine, Mr. Rap For Days, you got nada

I'm holding down the base like I'm Jorge Posada

Grand slamming, my team connect like Verrazano

From the land of the Gotti's

Gigante's, the capos

The Uptown knock out

Heat sealed by papo

Broadway, Audubon, Amsterdam, all day

The galaxy of Queens

And hipsters on the L train

It's Mayor Goonberg!

All you herbs will get ?

Re-Elect Dinkins


[Chorus]

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor


[Verse 2: Action Bronson]

1990 to '93, Action Bronsolini

Yo, Summer '91, me and David Dink

My shoes were suede

His diamond color, gray blink

Held the sniffter, quarter filled with Cognac

Had security to handle heavy chrome gats

Turned his head, took a bump, wiped his nose off

And copped a loosey, a Philly and a O-Dog

He spit the game to make the ladies take their clothes off

He ride Mercedes, smother chicken gravy, cole slaw

White bitches was his forte

He fed them raw yay

Portraits of himself in the foyer

She asked the lord to eat the kitty

He put a knife to her neck

"Listen bitch, yo this is my city"

Chain of command, chief of police to take the fall

Hundred thousand dollars out the projects

Straight to the hall

Clouds of smoke, floating out the gray Lincoln

We's thinking, best to re-elect Dinkins

Bitch!


[Chorus]

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor


[Verse 3: The Kid Daytona]

Yo

If you ain't know who I be, what the name was

Same thing as the beach, bitch, wave them

Hands in the air, you should know where I'm from

Same place as Hip-Hop and KRS-One

To the R tick tock and we just begun

Furthermore, shit stopped when we're in the room

Facelift, community juice, colossal

Flow doper than Strawberry's nostrils

No niggas, no mom or pop

But still made it in America with Rasta Masta

The ganja, moved on to the Sarah Jessica Parker

Cut it like a barber, put it in boiling water

Empire State, Big Apple pies

Try your fate, homie, Capitalize

Early '90s way of thinking

Romy on a mission

Bloomberg is the mayor

But I voted for David Dinkins


[Chorus]

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor

Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?

You'll be doing us a really big favor