Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't 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 the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K 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 it, sometimes I sit back and just reflect Watch the world go by and my connect I think about the time past and the to come on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function 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 buggin Fast forward, Nine-Now I team my seed I must at God's speed to perform 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 sittin roadside, that 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 grown to Philosophy redefine us, mines I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like tracks Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust Bring the marty to face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the bass that thump This ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump What you want, Jack? Young cats stash they at Draw they guns back, momma screams she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of high The fourth largest, artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the many years ago Three billion and here we go
GOOD VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up back up back up up) [repeated in background] Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place I live at any place I ever been at The home of big gats, deep hammer rim caps Have a mishap, ya wig back you go to get the fresh trim at Four on the jake got the rack Blue metro carding it Thugs it, form partnership Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, when you seek sleek You get caught, rode the white horse and 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 it's felt by that come here Out of take the train, plane and bus here Must be something that they really here One as a resident, deeper sentiment Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", they it Sittin on they front stoop sippin Usin dialect in they sentences From the treeline blocks to the To the Mom & Pop local shop Travel all the world in great distances And ain't a place that I know bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, our style 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 Friday night out in front The Himalaya wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Village Parkside caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in Starite City busy To the Hook, to the East, to the Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My posse, generals of armies it's time to form, just call me And let this song be, playin in Long B If you Bucktown STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the where it happen at Live sway and the balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they back It's where you find the tool crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, jame is at They play Big and get you like a sandal back Hotter than candle wax, you can't relax The crack babies to find where they mama's at It's off the black, wit big police scandals that Turn actions screenplays sold to Miramax The type of place where they 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 charm that have your wave cap floatin back The doorstep where the disposessed at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave zovarax You big ballin better keep your money back Cuz once the young guns notice it's over, black Brooklyn keep on it, worldwide we known for that cats get it snatched like the local tax The place I up my baritone vocals at Where one of the MC's was a local cat