Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't have a I feel like my only friend Is the city I live in, is Brooklyn Long as I live here believe I'm on hey Cuz the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place where I The Best in the and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the where I stay The Place I rest 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 and the time to come Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function Throw on my Izod, say a something When I was just a youngin, before the days of How me and Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin Fast forward, I gotta team my seed I must proceed at God's speed to perform my Livin the now space and time, the nine to five For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I ain't sittin roadside, that ain't harder to I'm out here for my fam all that I can I my city, sweet and gritty in land to outskirts Nickname Bucktown cuz we grown to Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I back Walk the streets like a sweet and get like drum tracks Catch no shakes jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to your wit no place to run back I'm from the that created the bass that thump back This ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and back What you want, Jack? cats stash they jums at Draw they guns back, momma where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of high The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the by the judge many years ago Three billion and here we go
MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up back up up back up) [repeated in background] Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the that I live at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, dish hammer rim caps Have a mishap, push ya wig Where you go to get the fresh at on the jake got the Timb rack Blue metro carding it Thugs mobbin it, partnership Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek ornaments You get caught, rode the white and can't get off Big dogs that trick off just get off shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, it's love And it's felt by that come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus be something that they really want here One year as a resident, sentiment "Go Brooklyn!", they representin it Sittin on they front stoop Guinesses Usin native in they sentences From the blocks to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all around the world in great And ain't a place I know that bear resemblance That's why we it The Not a borough or a prov, it's our style that's ?sun? to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in they army jacket Yo goes out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in The Himalaya goin wild goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Brown's tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in Starite 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, playin in Long B If you Bucktown STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at Live sway and the sharp balance of the axe Irons is at, thugs draw they hammer back It's where you find the news tool cameras at It's where my fam is at, summertime is at They play Big and get you open like a sandal Hotter than candle wax, hustlin you relax The crack tryin to find where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big scandals that Turn into actions screenplays to Miramax The type of place where they check appearance at And cats who where all the hot 'lo gear is at The stompin grounds, where you a pound, smoke is that Be blazin that have your wave cap floatin back The doorstep the disposessed posted at Dope out at Franklin Ave sellin zovarax You big ballin better keep money folded back Cuz once the young guns notice it's over, black Brooklyn keep on takin it, worldwide we known for Flossy get it snatched like the local tax The I sharpen up my baritone vocals at Where one of the MC's was a local cat