Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't have a Sometimes I feel like my friend Is the city I live in, is Brooklyn Long as I live here I'm on fire hey Cuz it's the L-Y-N is the place where I The Best in the and all USA the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place I stay The Place where I is on my born day it, sometimes I sit back and just reflect Watch the world go by and my thought I think about the time past and the time to Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function on my Izod, say a little something When I was just a youngin, before the days of How me and Charlie Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm buggin Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my I proceed at God's speed to perform my deed the now space and time, round the nine to five For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I ain't sittin roadside, that ain't to plan I'm out for my fam doin all that I can I my city, sweet and gritty in land to outskirts Bucktown cuz we grown to outburst Philosophy us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat drum tracks no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to your face wit no to run back I'm from the slums that created the that thump back This ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and back What you want, Jack? Young cats they jums at Draw they guns back, momma where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, dream of high stakes The fourth largest, artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the judge many ago billion strong and here we go
GOOD VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up up back up back up) [repeated in background] Yo sometimes I sit back, on the place that I live at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, dish hammer rim caps a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the fresh at on the jake got the Timb rack Blue collars metro it Thugs mobbin it, partnership armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big dogs that off just get sent off They shoebox is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, it's love And it's felt by anybody come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus Must be something that really want here One as a resident, deeper sentiment Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", representin it Sittin on they front stoop sippin Usin native in they sentences From the treeline to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local menaces all around the world in great distances And a place that I know that bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, it's our that's uncalm From to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in they jacket linings Yo this goes out to my cats in Isle Friday night out in front The goin wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda Brown's Village Parkside tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the The out in Starite City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My posse, generals of armies it's time to form, just call me And let this song be, loud in Long B If you love STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at Live sway and the balance of the battle axe is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer back It's you find the news tool crew cameras at where my fam is at, summertime jame is at They play Big and get you like a sandal back Hotter candle wax, hustlin you can't relax The crack babies tryin to where they mama's at off the handle black, wit big police scandals that Turn into actions screenplays sold to The of place where they check your appearance at And cats who know all the hot 'lo gear is at The stompin grounds, where you a pound, smoke is that Be blazin charm that your wave cap floatin back The doorstep where the posted at Dope out at Franklin Ave sellin zovarax You big ballin keep your money folded back Cuz once the young guns that it's over, black Brooklyn on takin it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched like the tax The place I sharpen up my vocals at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat