Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't a partner 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 is the place where I stay The in the world and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the where I stay The Place where I rest is on my day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and reflect Watch the world go by and my thought I think about the time past and the to come on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and young I used to try and come, to the neighborhood Throw on my Izod, say a little When I was a youngin, before the days of thuggin How me and Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin Fast forward, Nine-Now I team my seed I must at God's speed to perform my deed Livin the now space and time, round the nine to For as as I'm alive, paw I got to strive I ain't sittin roadside, that ain't to plan I'm out here for my fam all that I can I love my city, sweet and gritty in to outskirts Nickname Bucktown cuz we grown to Philosophy us, touch mines I touch back the streets like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we back Bring the marty to your face wit no place to run I'm from the slums that created the that thump back This ain't a game clown, ya James Brown and jump back you want, Jack? Young cats stash they jums at Draw guns back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of stakes The fourth largest, first artist, is the place by the judge many years ago Three billion strong and we go
GOOD VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up up back up back up) [repeated in background] Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place I live at Unlike any I ever been at The home of big gats, deep dish rim caps Have a mishap, ya wig back Where you go to get the trim at Four on the jake got the rack Blue collars carding it Thugs it, form partnership Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, when you sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the white horse and get off Big dogs that trick off get sent off They shoebox stash is all they gotta live off real yo but still yo, it's love here And it's felt by that come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus Must be something that they want here One as a resident, deeper sentiment Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", representin it Sittin on they front stoop sippin Usin native dialect in sentences From the blocks to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all around the in great distances And ain't a place that I know that bear why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, it's our style uncalm ?sun? to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in they army jacket Yo this goes out to my in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The goin wild This out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Brown's Parkside caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in Starite City busy To the Hook, to the East, to the Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My posse, generals of armies When it's to form, just call me And let this song be, playin in Long B If you love STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the where it happen at sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer It's where you find the tool crew cameras at where my fam is at, summertime jame is at They play Big and get you like a sandal back Hotter than candle wax, hustlin you can't The crack babies tryin to where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big scandals that Turn into screenplays sold to Miramax The type of place where they check your at And cats who know all the hot 'lo gear is at The stompin grounds, you find a pound, smoke is that Be blazin charm that have your wave cap back The where the disposessed posted at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin You big ballin better keep your money folded Cuz once the young guns that it's over, black keep on takin it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched the local tax The I sharpen up my baritone vocals at Where one of the greatest was a local cat