Hey hey, ha ha say say what 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 the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place where I The in the world and all USA It's the is the place where I stay The where 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 about the time and the time to come on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and young 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 (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin Fast forward, I gotta team my seed I must proceed at God's to perform my deed the now space 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 here for my fam all that I can I love my city, and gritty in land to outskirts Bucktown cuz we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I back Walk the like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to your face wit no place to run I'm from the slums that created the bass thump back This ain't a game clown, play ya James and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats stash they at Draw they guns back, screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the Settled by the judge years ago Three billion and here we go
GOOD VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up up back up back up) [repeated in background] Yo I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at Unlike any place I been at The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim Have a mishap, push ya wig Where you go to get the trim at on the jake got the Timb rack Blue collars metro it mobbin it, form partnership Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, when you sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the white horse and get off Big dogs that trick off just get off They stash is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but yo, it's love here And felt by anybody that come here Out of take the train, plane and bus here Must be something that they really want One year as a resident, sentiment "Go Brooklyn!", they representin it Sittin on they front stoop sippin Usin native dialect in they From the blocks to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all the world in great distances And a place that 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 cats in Isle night out in front The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Crown and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Brown's 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, 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 place it happen at Live sway and the sharp balance of the axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer It's where you find the news tool 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 can't The crack babies tryin to where they mama's at off the handle black, wit big police scandals that Turn actions screenplays sold to Miramax The type of where they check your appearance at And cats who know all the hot 'lo gear is at The stompin grounds, where you find a pound, is that Be blazin charm have your wave cap floatin back The doorstep where the posted at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave zovarax You big ballin better keep your money back Cuz the young guns notice that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on it, worldwide we known for that Flossy get it snatched like the local tax The place I sharpen up my baritone at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat