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 beautiful Long as I here believe I'm on fire hey Cause it's the is the place where I stay The Best in the and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place 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 to come Reminisce 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 younging, the days of thugging How me and Charlie Chims (hey yo what?) I'm bugging Fast forward, I gotta team my seed I must proceed at speed to perform my deed Livin the now space and time, the nine to five For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I ain't roadside, that ain't harder to plan I'm out here for my fam doing all I can I my city, sweet and gritty in land to outskirts Nickname Bucktown cause we grown to Philosophy us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like tracks no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the bass that 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, screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of stakes The fourth largest, artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the judge many ago Three strong and here we go
Good Vietnam! Ha (back up back up back up up back up) Yo sometimes I sit back, on the place that I live at any place I ever been at The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the fresh at Four on the got the Timb rack Blue metro carding it Thugs it, form partnership Increase armorment, pharmacist consequence, when you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the white horse and get off Big dogs that trick off just get off They shoebox stash is all they seeds live off It's real yo but still yo, love here And it's by anybody that come here Out of towners take the train, and bus here Must be something they really want here One year as a resident, sentiment Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", representing it Sitting on they front stoop Guinesses Using dialect in they sentences From the treeline to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local shop Travel all the world in great distances And ain't a place that I know bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a or a prov, it's our style that's uncalm From "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette White "coff guawinas" in they jacket linings Yo this goes out to my in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The Himalaya goin goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Brown's Parkside tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the The out in Starite City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My posse, generals of armies When it's to form, just call me And let this song be, playing 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 Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer where you find the news tool crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, jam is at They Big and get you open like a sandal back Hotter than wax, hustling you can't relax The babies trying to find where they mama's at off the handle black, wit big police scandals that Turn into screenplays sold to Miramax The type of place where check your appearance at And cats who know 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 the dispossessed posted at fiends out at Franklin Ave selling zovarax You big better keep your money folded back Cause once the young guns notice that it's over, keep on taking 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