Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel I don't have a partner Sometimes I feel my only friend Is the city I live in, is Brooklyn 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 where I rest is on my born day Bust it, I sit back and just reflect Watch the world go by and my connect I think the time past and the time to come Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and 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 only forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my seed I proceed at God's speed 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 sittin roadside, that ain't to plan I'm out for my fam doin all that I can I love my city, sweet and gritty in to outskirts Bucktown cuz we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I back the streets like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back the marty to your face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the bass thump back ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Young cats stash they jums at Draw they guns back, momma screams she sons at Tryin to that, recurring dream of high stakes The largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the place by the judge many years ago Three billion strong and we go
GOOD 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 of big gats, deep dish hammer rim caps Have a mishap, ya wig back you go to get the fresh trim at Four on the jake got the rack collars metro carding it Thugs mobbin it, form Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, when you sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big dogs that off just get sent off They shoebox stash is all they gotta live off It's real yo but yo, it's love here And it's felt by anybody come here Out of take the train, plane and bus here Must be something they really want here One as a resident, deeper sentiment "Go Brooklyn!", they representin it Sittin on they front sippin Guinesses Usin native dialect in 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 I know that bear resemblance That's why we it The Not a borough or a prov, it's our that's uncalm ?sun? to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in army jacket linings Yo goes out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in The Himalaya goin wild goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Village Parkside tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the 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 When time to form, just call me And let song 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 draw they back It's where you find the news crew cameras at It's my fam is at, summertime jame is at They play Big and get you open a sandal back than candle wax, hustlin you can't relax The crack babies tryin to find they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big police scandals Turn into actions screenplays to Miramax The type of place they check your appearance at And cats who where all the hot 'lo gear is at The stompin grounds, where you find a pound, is that Be blazin charm that have your wave cap back The where the disposessed posted at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave zovarax You big ballin better keep money folded back Cuz once the young guns notice that it's over, keep on takin it, worldwide 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