Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't have a Sometimes I feel like my only Is the city I in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I live here I'm on fire hey Cause the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place I stay 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 Bust it, sometimes I sit back and reflect the world go by and my thought connect I think about the time past and the time to on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and young I used to try and come, to the function Throw on my Izod, say a little I was just a younging, before the days of thugging How me and Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only bugging forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my seed I must proceed at God's speed to perform my Livin the now space and time, round the to five For as as I'm alive, paw I got to strive I ain't sitting roadside, that harder to plan I'm out here for my fam all that I can I love my city, sweet and gritty in land to Nickname cause we grown to outburst redefine us, touch mines I touch back Walk the like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes over (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the that thump back This a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back you want, Jack? Young cats stash they jums at Draw they guns back, screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the Settled by the many years ago Three billion strong and we go
Good Vietnam! Ha (back up up back up back up back up) Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place that I at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, deep dish rim caps a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the fresh at Four on the got the Timb rack Blue collars carding it mobbing it, form partnership Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek ornaments You get caught, rode the white horse and get off Big dogs that off just get sent off They shoebox stash is all they seeds live off It's real yo but yo, it's love here And it's by anybody that come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus Must be something that really want here One year as a resident, deeper Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", representing it Sitting on they front sipping Guinesses native dialect in they sentences From the treeline blocks to the To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all the world in great distances And ain't a place that I know that bear That's why we it The Not a or a prov, it's our style that's uncalm From "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette White "coff guawinas" in they army linings Yo goes out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The goin wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Brown's Parkside tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the The cats out in Starite gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My Flatbush posse, generals of When it's time to form, just me And let this song be, loud in Long B If you Bucktown strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at Live sway and the balance of the battle axe Irons is at, thugs draw they hammer back It's where you find the tool crew cameras at It's my fam is at, summertime jam is at play Big and get you open like a sandal back Hotter than candle wax, you can't relax The crack trying to find where they mama's at off the handle black, wit big police scandals that Turn into actions screenplays to Miramax The type of place where they check your at And cats who know all the hot 'lo gear is at The stomping grounds, where you a pound, smoke is that Be blazing that have your wave cap floating back The doorstep where the posted at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave selling You big balling better your money folded back Cause once the young guns notice it's over, black Brooklyn keep on taking it, worldwide we known for cats get it snatched like the local tax The place I sharpen up my vocals at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat