Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I like I don't have a partner Sometimes I like my only friend Is the I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I live here I'm on fire hey Cuz the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the 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 Bust it, sometimes I sit and just reflect Watch the go by and my thought connect I about the time past and the time to come Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and I used to try and come, to the neighborhood 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 team my seed I proceed at God's 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 sittin roadside, that harder to plan I'm out here for my fam doin all I can I love my city, sweet and in land to outskirts Nickname cuz we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I touch Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat drum tracks no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the 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 Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young stash they jums at Draw they guns back, momma screams where she at Tryin to hunt that, recurring of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the by the judge many years ago Three billion and here we go
MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up back up back up up) [repeated in background] Yo I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, deep dish rim caps Have a mishap, push ya wig Where you go to get the fresh at Four on the got the Timb rack Blue collars carding it mobbin it, form partnership Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, when you sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big dogs that trick off just get off shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, love here And it's felt by that come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus Must be something that they really here One as a resident, deeper sentiment "Go Brooklyn!", they representin it Sittin on they front stoop Guinesses Usin native dialect in they From the treeline to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local shop Travel all 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 Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in army jacket linings Yo this goes out to my cats in Coney Friday night out in front The goin wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Village Parkside tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the The cats out in City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My Flatbush posse, generals of 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 place it happen at Live sway and the sharp of the battle axe Irons is at, thugs draw they hammer back It's where you find the news crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, summertime is at They play Big and get you open like a back Hotter than candle wax, hustlin you relax The crack babies tryin to find they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big scandals that Turn into actions screenplays to Miramax The type of place where they your appearance at And who know where all the hot 'lo gear is at The stompin grounds, where you a pound, smoke is that Be blazin charm that have wave cap floatin back The doorstep the disposessed posted at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin You big ballin better keep your money back Cuz once the young guns notice that over, black Brooklyn on takin it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched the local tax The place I sharpen up my vocals at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat