Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I have a partner Sometimes I feel like my only Is the I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I live believe I'm on fire hey Cuz it's the is the place where I stay The Best in the and all USA the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place I stay The Place where I is on my born day it, sometimes I sit back and just reflect Watch the world go by and my connect I think about the time past and the time to on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function on my Izod, say a little something When I was a youngin, before the days of thuggin How me and Charlie Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm only Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my I must proceed at speed to perform my deed Livin the now and time, round 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 for my fam doin all that I can I love my city, sweet and in land to outskirts Nickname cuz we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like tracks Catch no shakes over (boomp-boomp!) we bust back the marty to your face 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 jump What you want, Jack? cats stash they jums at Draw they guns back, screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of high The fourth largest, artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the judge years ago Three strong and here we go
MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up up back up back up back up) [repeated in background] Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place that I at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, deep hammer rim caps Have a mishap, push ya wig Where you go to get the fresh at Four on the jake got the rack Blue collars carding it Thugs mobbin it, form Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, the white horse and can't get off Big dogs trick 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 felt by anybody that come here Out of towners the train, plane and bus here Must be something that they really here One as a resident, deeper sentiment Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", they it on they front stoop sippin Guinesses Usin dialect in they sentences From the treeline blocks to the To the Mom & Pop local shop Travel all around the in great distances 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 that's uncalm From to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in army jacket linings Yo this goes out to my in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The Himalaya goin This goes out to Crown and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my trenny? Brown's Village tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in Starite gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My Flatbush posse, of armies When it's time to form, call me And let this song be, playin in Long B If you love STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place where it at sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, draw they hammer back 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 open like a sandal Hotter than candle wax, you can't relax The crack tryin to find where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big scandals that Turn into actions sold to Miramax The of place where they check your appearance at And cats who where all the hot 'lo gear is at The stompin grounds, where you find a pound, is that Be blazin charm that have wave cap floatin back The where the disposessed posted at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin You big ballin better keep money folded back Cuz once the guns notice that it's over, black keep on takin it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it like the local tax The I sharpen up my baritone vocals at Where one of the greatest was a local cat