Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo I feel like I don't have a partner Sometimes I feel my only friend Is the I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I live here I'm on fire hey it's the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the where I stay The Best in the and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place where I The Place I rest is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and reflect Watch the world go by and my connect I think about the time past and the to come Reminisce on Bed-Stuy when I was and young I used to try and come, to the neighborhood on my Izod, say a little something When I was a younging, before the days of thugging How me and Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only bugging Fast forward, I gotta team my seed I must proceed at God's speed to 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 sitting roadside, that ain't harder to I'm out here for my fam doing all I can I love my city, sweet and in land to outskirts Nickname Bucktown cause we grown to Philosophy us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes over (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to your face wit no place to run I'm from the slums that created the bass thump back This a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Young cats stash they jums at Draw they guns back, momma where she sons at Tryin to that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the Settled by the judge many ago Three billion strong and we go
Good Vietnam! Ha (back up up back up back up back up) Yo I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at Unlike any I ever been 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 Jake got the Timb collars metro carding it Thugs mobbing it, form armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek sleek You get caught, rode the white horse and get off Big dogs that off just get sent off They shoebox stash is all they gotta live off It's real yo but yo, it's love here And it's felt by anybody that here Out of towners the train, plane and bus here be something that they really want here One year as a resident, deeper out "Go Brooklyn!", they representing it Sitting on they stoop sipping Guinesses Using dialect in they sentences From the blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop shop menaces Travel all around the in great distances And ain't a place that I know bear resemblance That's why we it The Not a borough or a prov, it's our that's uncalm From "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette "coff guawinas" in they army jacket linings Yo this goes out to my cats in Isle night out in front The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Brown's tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in Starite City gettin To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My Flatbush posse, of armies When time to form, just call me And let this be, playing loud in Long B If you love strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at Live and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is at, thugs draw they hammer back It's you find the news tool crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, jam is at They play Big and get you open like a back Hotter than candle wax, hustling you relax The crack babies trying to where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big police that Turn into screenplays sold to Miramax The type of place where check your appearance at And who know where all the hot 'lo gear is at The stomping grounds, where you a pound, smoke is that Be blazing charm that have your wave cap back The doorstep where the posted at Dope fiends out at Ave selling zovarax You big balling better your money folded back once the young guns notice that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on taking it, worldwide we for that Flossy get it snatched like the local tax The place I sharpen up my baritone at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat