Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel I don't have a partner Sometimes I feel like my friend Is the city I live in, is Brooklyn as I live here believe I'm on fire hey Cuz the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the 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 and just reflect Watch the world go by and my thought I think about the time past and the to come Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function Throw on my Izod, say a little When I was just a youngin, the days of thuggin How me and Charlie (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my I must proceed at God's speed to my deed Livin the now and time, round the nine to five 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 land to Nickname Bucktown cuz we to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I touch Walk the streets a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums created the bass that thump back This ain't a game clown, play ya James and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats stash jums at Draw guns back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of high The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the by the judge many years ago Three strong and here we go
MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up back up back up back up) in background] Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place I live at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim Have a mishap, push ya wig you go to get the fresh trim at Four on the jake got the rack Blue collars metro it Thugs it, form partnership Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big that trick off just get sent off They shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta off It's real yo but still yo, it's here And felt by anybody that come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus Must be something that they really want One year as a resident, sentiment Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", representin it Sittin on they stoop sippin Guinesses Usin native in they sentences the treeline blocks to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop shop menaces Travel all around the world in distances And ain't a that I know that bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, it's our style that's From to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in army jacket linings Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The goin wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Brown's Parkside tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the The cats out in Starite gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My Flatbush posse, generals of When it's time to form, call me And let this song be, playin loud in B If you Bucktown STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at Live sway and the sharp of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they back It's where you find the tool crew cameras at where my fam is at, summertime jame is at They Big and get you open like a sandal back than candle wax, hustlin you can't relax The babies tryin 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 they your appearance at And cats who know all the hot 'lo gear is at The stompin grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is Be charm that have your wave cap floatin back The doorstep the disposessed posted at fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin zovarax You big ballin keep your money folded back Cuz once the young guns notice that it's over, Brooklyn keep on takin it, we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched the local tax The place I up my baritone vocals at Where one of the MC's was a local cat