Neneh Cherry - Inna City Mamma Lyrics






New York - Just like I pictured it - skyscrapers and everything
Inna city love, you crushed me into a pulp - I trusted you

When I loved you from a distance
And your skyline made me a promise
In my safe world to be somebody
In your city to own your streets
Where I'd strut covered in money
Shattered dreams. It ain't funny

Now I look at you with tears in my eyes
The good the bad the ugly
As I start to cry I search for the sky
Taste the breeze and watch a block of docking clouds, they're coming.

Inna City Mamma
You bore another child to be victim of
Your cold blooded ways
Inna city love
From the gutter
So destructive when you sing your blues

I want to love you baby
I don't mean maybe baby, but I need everything you got
You can't break your promise

I'm inna city hunger, you think you're tough I'm stronger
If you're weak I'll eat you up
I'm gonna touch you where you've never been touched before
And by your spine I'll bruise your veins and touch your very core
Let my concrete be your red carpet
My shooting galleries your personal starship
Give me all your dreams, this city loves you

Use my roots to deliver your body
Under my skies where you make your money
You rejected love, but this city loves you

Inna City Mamma
You bore another child to be victim of
Your cold blooded ways
Inna city love
From the gutter
So destructive when you sing your blues

Inna city love, inna city mamma, inna city love
You hurt me - real bad - inna city love
You meant to love me and you cut me up into too many little pieces
But I wanna love you
I trusted you and you crushed me into a pulp
Inna city mamma





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  1. c.... M....

    The music world needs nowadays strong women again. Neneh Cherry excelled in transforming the suffering and wounds of the past of black woman into a force to hope and look forward always with pride. She contributed so much to the way rapper, black woman are now treated respectfully.

  2. G.... .....

    KRS1 I'm Still#1

  3. Z.... L....

    Awesome!

  4. J.... K....

    History in the making ...Neneh Cherry everytime ...xX

  5. v.... ....

    the 90s started so hopefully with songs like this one and then gradually it all turned to crap.

  6. R.... K....

    what is mean inna city?

  7. l.... h....

    Still such a brilliant chewn

  8. A.... J....

    Just counts as an 80s hit, released in December 1989.

  9. o.... t....

    My favorite song and singer from my childhood......so much memories

  10. H.... G....

    Winning Youth Force

  11. V.... V....

    So soulful, so sexy, SO BADADSSSSS

  12. i.... j....

    Toen waren vrouwen echte artiesten

  13. L.... T....

    I’ve had this song stuck in my head all day after 25 odd years. Forgot how heavy the bass was

  14. m.... ....

    I was 19 and still love this song !

  15. R.... l....

    16 year old,summertime,the good days😊

  16. I.... B....

    So talented! She should have been a much bigger star! I love all her stuff

  17. S.... M....

    1:33 lol rip right earbud

  18. N.... M....

    She's got thé most beautiful brown eyes and sexy mouth. 3:06 ..3:09 omg.

  19. N.... A....

    killer video.

  20. c.... s....

    yo i m ashamed never heard this tune before this is fiyah

  21. B.... G....

    underrated song! Still love it after almost 28 years....

  22. S.... ....

    Love the song (and Neneh) but she needed a choreographer or the one she had needed to be fired.

  23. R.... J....

    That why I love priceless MUSIC, it last a LIFETIME TIME. I was in the 5th grade and Now 37, time dose not exist

  24. W.... J....

    HOY NENEH JE BENT NOG INGESCHREVE MAAR NIET NEER BIJ DE 12 VROUWEN I NOG DORGAAN MET HET AFSPELLEN VAN JE VIDEO DANK JE VOOR JESPONENE INSCHRIJVING DANKJEWEL WOUTER JOANNES VEEL LIEFDE

  25. W.... J....

    lieve Neneh ik vind dat in ons huis ook kinderen van mij een plaats verdienen al ken ik hun moeder niet wil ik ze plaats geven dit lijkt mij allen meer vreugde geven daar er ook nog kinderen gaan geboren worden wau ik jouw vragen als queen dank je wel wouter joannes

  26. T.... D....

    1989 was an awesome year

  27. X.... M....

    immortal woman, irmortal neh neh musics - great funk volume bassss

  28. W.... J....

    Neneh chery heerlijk om jouw liefde vor muziek te ervaren jij bent echt een heel leker gevoel gevende muziek ina ccity love
    i feel it babe dank jewel wouter joannes

  29. r.... j....

    In this vid she kind of looks half Swedish lol - beautiful woman-beautiful voice

  30. M.... T....

    I saw her on the street, like, 2 years ago, and the fist thought that came to my mind was "Inna City Love"....

  31. N.... L....

    I love mama!!!

  32. J.... W....

    take notes everyone...oh wait everyone did

  33. a.... f....

    And they say,Eazy E, Tupac and Biggie were great lyricists, she's better than all of them, she can write and perform songs without saying "fuck" every 10 seconds.

    a.... f....

    you know it....nenehs lyrics are raw and real....so underrated and this song is more true today than ever

    a.... f....

    alain frigon she cool & speaks from the heat

  34. C.... M....

    Good old Neneh Cherry. She's the nest. 1989 lives on forever and ever!!!

  35. B.... W....

    How I wanted that hair of hers!!! Back then so popular, and those earrings...

  36. m.... d....

    .....now I look at you with tears in my eyes....

  37. n.... s....

    je l'aime trop!!!

  38. A.... ....

    I couldn't really take her seriously... being an Afrocentric mixed race negro... and then she went off and had white kids lol... That's not black pride.

    A.... ....

    @2PaCaLypSe157
    Who? i call it how i see it.

    A.... ....

    well your black pride may have an other definition then.

    A.... ....

    @2PaCaLypSe157
    You aren't proud of your race if you run off having kids that look nothing like you. It's called self hate. Dont be stupid. A majority of these mixed breeds hate their black side anyways.

    A.... ....

    Oh shut the fuck up already. You're probably low key racist. I think I've heard enough of your fake "i dont care about skin color" BS. Everybody does. Especially you whites.  Oh and guess what? People do choose who they fall in love with. @*****

    A.... ....

    kek, laqueesha detected

  39. a.... ....

    "Raw Like Sushi" is a masterpiece but this version of "Inna City Mamma" was always way way better than the LP version.

    a.... ....

    +antunivanovic I'm with you on the masterpiece part. I like this version but I like the layering in the original too.

    a.... ....

    I agree I have the original copy of the vhs The rise of Neneh Cherry!

  40. C.... D....

    shit man in 3 years this song is going to be 30 years old

  41. C.... L....

    tough... cool.... sexy... classic...

  42. O.... M....

    I think

  43. K.... H....

    Ridiculously beautiful.

    K.... H....

    Ridiculously indeed

  44. O.... P....

    CoOl la MEUF

  45. b.... s....

    don't ya just love this constant stream of ''born pregnant'' children. ya roight like fuck breath neneh cherry

  46. O.... A....

    my first song i digged in sweden and Neneh Cherry was da bomb

  47. F.... C....

    greatest 90s funk time forever last's generations 2 generations

  48. C.... S....

    Gaaf he! Neneh Cherry ♥

  49. s.... ....

    Neneh knew she was fine, too. So many close up face shots. Nice song.

  50. o.... r....

    prefer the album version

    o.... r....

    @osaro runner Me too. It's just punchier or something.

  51. c.... ....

    oh, those were times.. yesterday, when i was young..**

  52. m.... ....

    When I loved you....

  53. C.... N....

    Omg ! I was 16.....gee! now i'm 40 still love this song.

    C.... N....

    Cuong Nguyen Huu I was 22 I love d her come bk Nena!:-)

    C.... N....

    Cuong Nguyen Huu same here my freind

    C.... N....

    Cuong Nguyen Huu mis these days sometimes.

    C.... N....

    Same😊

  54. i.... ....

    1989 was a good year, i wanna live that year all over again please give me a de lorean (Back to the future car) we need you Emmet Brown :)

  55. m.... m....

    1989? fuk iam old

    m.... m....

    1989 wasn't that long ago..lol

  56. I.... A....

    Way better than the album version - although Raw like sushi is a masterpiece.

  57. B.... ....

    Great song, I like this version better than the cd version.

    Also, how did get such high video quality from an almost 20 year old VHS tape!?

  58. J.... Y....

    Neneh, still better than all the rest

  59. J.... V....

    Urban art rap at its finest.

    J.... V....

    Maybe so but Neneh Cherry is no All American girl, she's part Sierra-Leone and part Swedish.

    J.... V....

    @RastaSaiyaman Correct..

    J.... V....

    +RastaSaiyaman Doesn't matter, her style is ALL AMERICAN.

  60. B.... ....

    a good dancing song-she really jams

  61. j.... ....

    I am listener 101.270

  62. n.... n....

    i love Neneh's dancing moves from 3:00 till the end...

  63. n.... ....

    i always loved her hair...those curls n that skin tone...man, she was a sexy thang!!

  64. P.... ....

    This is a timeless classic! Period

  65. B.... ....

    Back in the day I use to play the brakes off of my Raw Like Sushi cassette to the point where I had to get another one. Looks like I'll digging it out again tonight.

  66. R.... W....

    EAT THIS-beounce,rehanna....

  67. R.... W....

    ThanX Neneh Cherry for BEST entertainmant back in the 80s

  68. R.... S....

    CLassic Shit

  69. R.... W....

    Geil-100% MUSIC

  70. R.... ....

    very much emotion in this song .......!

  71. f.... c....

    good for you son dont mind the sulky people down here i care !

  72. S.... ....

    Excuse me if i do care. Nowadays most of the teenagers don't care or like this line if music, they prefer rap or pretending being a hard rock and metal fan just to get on the nerves of their parents. So I'm proud of being 16 and have hears good enough to appreciate this incredible singer.

  73. S.... ....

    I'm only 16 and prefer that sound than anything the "artists" can make.

  74. d.... ....

    so beautiful and such a good song.. love to everyone who likes this

  75. J.... C....

    @696BabyDoll Good for you! I love all kinds of music but the late 80's and the 90's were awesome! I love the album too! She was ahead of her time and so misunderstood!

  76. c.... ....

    @MoRobi0515 Rip it and share it, mate!

  77. M.... ....

    I still have my VHS and it's intact!!!

  78. c.... ....

    Can't believe this is now well over 20 years old...and yet it overshadows virtually anything that the UK urban music scene can produce today.

  79. f.... r....

    long time since iv heard this!
    love her moves loool

  80. R.... K....

    nenah still rocks after all this time,im almost 39,still love her sounds

  81. M.... ....

    this lady rocks what a g8 album

  82. f.... ....

    Don't care about age, still good song and good for the future.

  83. m.... ....

    @696BabyDoll i totally agree with you! as a teenager back then and as i 36yo now!

  84. S.... a....

    Simply beautiful.

  85. J.... S....

    @marselus88 Neneh is low key these days. She is a band called Cirkus that does not do tours in the US (as far as I know) ... very indie ... she hangs with the Massive Attack crew and her band ...

    x

  86. b.... ....

    she is SO sexy!!!

  87. b.... ....


    I LOVE NENEH CHERRY
    simply...
    p.s and im 44

  88. b.... ....


    I LOVE NENEH CHERRY
    simply...

  89. s.... b....

    @Andyontherocks yeah neneh must get a great come back,don´t she?

  90. s.... b....

    @raztata a share same opinion as you

  91. s.... b....

    @696BabyDoll i am 47 but have the same opinion to the text as you gr. su

  92. G.... S....

    damn, so fuckin dope, she's hot also, straight bomb jams coming from her, anybody knows what happened with her?

  93. U.... ....

    what's the name of this version of the song and where did it came out? this one's not on the album, if i'm right.

  94. D.... W....

    this has dated SO SO well. and yeah - i love this album so so much!

  95. A.... ....

    classic track that still holds up today! her music was way ahead! and people give are saying urban/black music is top of the charts...this was years ago and still sounfs ace! neneh come back!

  96. m.... ....

    It is hereby proven. If your dad is African and your mum is Swedish you become very beautiful

  97. s.... ....

    heh heh 2:48

  98. A.... B....

    Nice quality.