Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel I don't have a partner I feel like my only friend Is the city I in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I here believe I'm on fire hey Cuz it's the L-Y-N is the place where I The Best in the and all USA the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place where I The Place where I rest is on my day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and reflect the world go by and my thought connect I about the time past and the time to come Reminesce on Bed-Stuy I was pride and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function on my Izod, say a little something When I was just a youngin, before the of thuggin How me and Charlie Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm buggin Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my I proceed 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 roadside, that ain't harder to plan I'm out for my fam doin all that I can I love my city, sweet and gritty in to outskirts Nickname Bucktown cuz we to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch 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 your face wit no place to run I'm from the slums created the bass that thump back This ain't a game clown, ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats stash jums at Draw they guns back, momma screams she sons at to hunt that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the many years ago Three strong and here we go
MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up back up back up back up) [repeated in Yo sometimes I sit back, on the place that I live at Unlike any place I been at The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the trim at on the jake got the Timb rack Blue collars carding it mobbin it, form partnership Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek ornaments You get caught, rode the white horse and get off Big dogs trick 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 take the train, plane and bus here be something that they really want here One as a resident, deeper sentiment "Go Brooklyn!", they representin it Sittin on they front sippin Guinesses Usin dialect in they sentences From the blocks to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local menaces all around the world in great distances And ain't a place that I know that resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, it's our style uncalm From ?sun? to the ? to the Lafayette ?coff guawinas? in they army jacket linings Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday out in front The Himalaya goin wild This out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Village Parkside tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the The cats out in Starite City busy 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, playin loud in Long B If you Bucktown STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the where it happen at Live sway and the sharp of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, draw they hammer back It's where you find the news crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, jame is at They play Big and get you open like a back Hotter than candle wax, hustlin you relax The crack babies to find where they mama's at It's off the black, wit big police scandals that Turn into actions screenplays sold to The type of place where check your appearance at And cats who know where all the hot 'lo is at The stompin grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is Be blazin that have your wave cap floatin back The doorstep where the disposessed at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin You big ballin keep your money folded back Cuz once the young notice that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on takin it, we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched like the tax The place I up my baritone vocals at one of the greatest MC's was a local cat