thoughts from Manhattan Reece Coren June 1, 2024 to all the killas and the hundred dollar billas 1 irony is a parking garage at a train station it drops deep as it does in my breath. i never sleep UH cause sleep is the cousin of death. beyond the walls of intelligence life is defined. i think of crime when i’m in a New York state of mind. 2 Boston Dallas in the finals. feels like all the villains winning lately. scrolling Twitter as i walk, all i see is soldiers killing babies. what a luxury to sleep sedately or to be the one to make me say please. go to bed now if you must. tag me in when we’re down 28-3. 2 N.Y. State of Mind by Nas 2:04 1 Shook Ones by Mobb Deep 0:10 a lot of (people) schemin’ some real, some (people) frontin’ but i’m a big dreamer so watch me come up with somethin ’ 3 Douglas MacArthur commanded United Nations troops in Korea. the fucking UN headquarters is in New York. what do you expect them to do? sham country. sham organization. After the 1993 bombing, the city, under Mr. Giuliani's command, frequently boasted about how much effort it was putting into preparing for any future attack or other disaster. The centerpiece of those preparations was a high-tech, super secure emergency command center at 7 World Trade Center, where the C.I.A. and the Secret Service also had offices. “They don't know most of the things that happened,” Mr. Giuliani said, of McKinsey & Company, the consultants hired by the city to examine the police and firefighter response. “Maybe if they read the book, they will get a sense of the facts they missed in doing the report.” 4 the only source of color in this barren wasteland comes from the graffiti. it’s only an eyesore if you like things in black and white. the metal confines restricting the revolution are all rusted out. they haven’t been touched since the Eisenhower administration. will that bridge collapse? will that gaping pothole ever be filled in? who knows? it’s not my problem! who needs infrastructure? we have militarized police. the glass windows on the high rises reflect the greed that lives within them. outside, human beings are subjected to a life of squalor. they beg for change on the concrete 4 Eric Lipton’s September 29, 2002, article for the New York Times titled “Giuliani Says City Was Prepared on 9/11” 3 N.Y. State of Mind Pt. II by Nas 3:25 in front of penthouse suites. we can’t even look them in the eye. we hide behind our bills. Don’t give them any money. we don’t have any to give. we need it for clothes and bags and drinks and shoes and whatever else. They don’t deserve our money. we do. They’ll just use it on drugs. unlike me. what kind of country lets rich white men sleep peacefully while human beings live amongst crumpled-up trash and puddles of urine? a shithole country. what kind of people can witness such misery and suffering, then just go back to the suburbs and put it out of their minds? shithole people. why are there so many fucking cops? why do they need to be so heavily armed? why don’t you care about your neighbors living alongside you? what will it take to make you care? battles i lose none i make crews run i get fools done got ten fingers, but only use one i run up like Machine Gun Kelly with a black skully put one in your belly leave you smelly then take your Pelle Pelle 5 5 M.V.P. by Big L 2:07 the only WTC i know is the Wu-Tang Clan i’m looking for the devil ‘cause money’s the root of evil 6 look at the infrastructure of any major city in this country and tell me the united states isn’t a shithole yea, you’re right. it’s the unhoused guy’s fault the subway station looks like an israeli-occupied refugee camp. that’s not a policy decision by any means. every major city in america is littered with trash and reeks of piss because the police don’t have enough money. we just have to give them a little more money and power and a little less accountability and that’ll fix the problem. that’s what they’re lacking. bitch i don’t wanna smile bitch i wanna cry i don’t wanna see him live i wanna see that (person) die 7 the A train looks like the 70s. this would be the perfect place to do real-life Superbad. concrete jungle wet dream tomatoooo 8 what is behavioral sink? My name is Aaron Bushnell. I am an active-duty member of the United States Air Force. And I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but 8 Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys 0:57 7 This Is New York by Scar Lip 1:30 6 Kiss of Death by Jadakiss, Ruff Ryders 0:47 compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Free Palestine. 9 Yale just walked up to an NYPD cop in full riot gear standing on his phone in the subway terminal to thank him for his service 💀 the guy almost had a heart attack. there’s a war going on outside no man is safe from it don’t matter if you’re three feet or eight- one 10 now, he goes, This backpack is heavy. I don’t know how the rangers do it. when Chase asked, What rangers? he said, Military fuck the world dont ask me for shit everything you get you got to work haaaaaarrrdd for it 11 now we just walked by some strung out dude passed out on the ground and he turns his head left at a 90° angle and stares at this guy as we walk passed then just looks down and shakes his head. 💀 does anybody in this family know how to fucking behave in public? SPEAKIN’ OF THE DEVIL PSYCH NO, IT’S THE GOD GET YOUR SHIT RIGHT MEGA TRIFE, AND YO, I KILLED YOU IN A PAST LIFE 12 Khalid al-Mihdhar — Saudi Arabia Majed Moqed — Saudi Arabia Nawaf al-Hazmi — Saudi Arabia 12 Da Mystery of Chessboxin’ by the Wu-Tang Clan 2:47 11 The What by The Notorious B.I.G. and Method Man 1:28 10 Welcome to New York City by Cam’ron, Jay-Z, and Juelz Santana 1:52 9 Aaron Bushnell’s suicide note Salem al-Hazmi — Saudi Arabia Hani Hanjour — Saudi Arabia Satam al-Suqami — Saudi Arabia Waleed al-Shehri — Saudi Arabia Wail al-Shehri — Saudi Arabia Mohamed Atta — Egypt Abdulaziz al-Omari — Saudi Arabia Marwan al-Shehhi — United Arab Emirates Fayez Banihammad — United Arab Emirates Ahmed al-Ghamdi — Saudi Arabia Hamza al-Ghamdi — Saudi Arabia Mohand al-Shehri — Saudi Arabia Saeed al-Ghamdi — Saudi Arabia Ahmed al-Haznawi — Saudi Arabia Ahmed al-Nami — Saudi Arabia Ziad Jarrah — Lebanon can somebody explain to me how we ended up in Iraq and Afghanistan? Gordon , did you see what conservatives are saying about AOC? sorry Elmo , i’m completely checked out. 13 what the fuck is loitering? how do you criminalize standing here? what the fuck is jay walking? how is it even possible to walk in a way that’s illegal? what the fuck is trespassing? i can’t walk across your yard, but you can go to Iraq and kill a million people? what the fuck is “an illegal?” what did you do to earn your citizenship? You should live here. imagine. one day. 13 Cum Town Episode 274 52:48