New York, Sometimes It's Killing Me

This song expresses my own mixed emotions towards my adopted home so well it's almost creepy.

You got that nice slow phrasing from Gil Scott-Heron, evocative of the southern transplant making their way (and I'm not from Jackson TN, but it is eerily close to the family homestead).

You got the New York patter from Nas, so fast you can't totally follow it, as fast as the city itself, loving the city, but hating it a little too - a more realistic representation than the Beastie Boys' paean.

Yeah, I too can see why some get up and move where it's slow. New York, have mercy on me.

Go download it here.