Cam'ron "Welcome to New York City" (Treacy version)

Another in the sociopolitical series of videos by Dr. Patrick Treacy. It defines a commonality between the music of the street in New York and the Government problems of America. The video author lived in both New York and Baghdad for a period and is well placed to analyze the problems that now face both cities that are presently pitched in battle against each other. Background music by rapper and songwriter Cam'ron, founder of the hip-hop group The Diplomats, commonly known as Dipset. was born in Harlem, New York. He went to school at Manhattan Center High School, where he would meet his long time friends Mase and Jim Jones. He began his musical career in the mid 1990s, rapping alongside Big L. Some images courtesy of fellow YouTuber nypd911

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[diadelsuerte]

you have a few of the lyrics wrong "tin plates on the fender" = "temp plates on the fender "Next to Spike and the pen left to write" = "Next to Spike an' be panned left to right" "once again if you pen at the ice" = "once again if you pan left at the ice" "now there's danger, there's nothing left to shake up but: welcome to new york city" = "now there's danger, there's nothing left to say but: welcome to new york city" "body cops Castellano"= "body cops Dilano"

[mynokiaeyes]

THANK YOU. OMG its a bit like Joan Baez with Robbie Robertson's 'Night they drove old Dixie down". Baez's version made changes to the song lyric; The second line "Till Stoneman's cavalry came". Baez sings "Till so much cavalry came". She also changed "May the tenth" to "I took the train". In addition, the line "like my father before me, I will work the land" was changed to "like my father before me, I

[mynokiaeyes]

'm a working man", changing the narrator from a farmer to a laborer. In the last verse she changed "the mud below my feet" to "the blood below my feet".

[NYYBaseball88]

why cali faggots poppin shit if u don't like it don't listen. hop off NY dick please.

[mahirocal]

FUCK JAY Z SNITCH NIGGER ! DUMP UP if you down whit me!!!

[elamite66]

why is it when in the song Brooklyn is mentioned all we see in the video is the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan how about a view of downtown Brooklyn or at least what's left of it

[Danom7]

@cbooth2008 it is actually Rucker as in Rucker Park, Harlem ...basketball street legends "contender" 

[TheTaylorJohnson1]

@elamite66 yes

[elamite66]

@TheTaylorJohnson1 you should kid this is the joint especially when like me you're from NY NY you got taste where you live at man?

[elamite66]

not "and all my splendour' it's "in all my splendour" I know this is petty but the mistakes in the lyrics are so numerous

[elamite66]

@SKRAPP718 NJ is the fifth borough cause Staten Island don't even count Mount Vernon and my home Yonkers are more city than Staten Island

[elamite66]

@diadelsuerte it's also not "fronting center' at MSG but "front and center"

[elamite66]

@Fate263 yeah I'm down wid ya "the place of the lost towers we still bangin' we never lost power" NY is the center of the world fucking A

[elamite66]

sounds to me like "pit fights" not "pick fight" to me but I could be wrong won't be the first time