Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I like I don't have a partner Sometimes I feel like my friend Is the city I live in, is beautiful Long as I live here 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 where I The Place I rest is on my born day Bust it, I sit back and just reflect the world go by and my thought connect I think 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 function Throw on my Izod, say a little When I was just a youngin, before the days of How me and Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my seed I must proceed at God's speed to 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 my city, sweet and gritty in land to outskirts Bucktown cuz we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, mines I touch back Walk the streets like a and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust 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 clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Young cats stash they jums at Draw they guns back, screams where she sons at to hunt that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the by the judge many years ago Three billion and here we go
GOOD VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up up back up back up) [repeated in background] Yo sometimes I sit back, on the place that I live at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the trim at Four on the jake got the rack Blue collars carding it Thugs mobbin it, partnership armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, the white horse and can't get off Big that trick off just get sent off They shoebox stash is all they seeds live off It's real yo but still yo, it's here And it's felt by that come here Out of take the train, plane and bus here Must be something that they really here One year as a resident, deeper Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", they it Sittin on they front sippin Guinesses native dialect in they sentences From the treeline to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop shop menaces Travel all around the world in great And ain't a place that I know bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, it's our style uncalm From to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White ?coff in they army jacket linings Yo this goes out to my cats in Coney Friday out in front The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my trenny? Brown's 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, generals of it's 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 sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs they hammer back It's where you the news tool 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 wax, hustlin you can't relax The crack babies tryin to find where mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big police that Turn actions screenplays sold 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 find a pound, smoke is Be blazin charm that have your wave cap back The doorstep where the disposessed at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave zovarax You big ballin better your money folded back Cuz once the young guns notice it's over, black Brooklyn keep on takin it, worldwide we known for Flossy cats get it like the local tax The place I sharpen up my baritone at one of the greatest MC's was a local cat