Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I have a partner I feel like my only friend Is the I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I live here believe I'm on hey Cuz it's the L-Y-N is the where I stay The Best in the and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the where I stay The where I rest is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and reflect Watch the world go by and my 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 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, I gotta team my seed I proceed at God's speed to perform my deed Livin the now space and time, round the to five For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I ain't roadside, that ain't harder to plan I'm out here for my fam doin all I can I love my city, sweet and gritty in land to Nickname Bucktown cuz we to outburst redefine us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat drum tracks Catch no shakes jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the to your face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the bass thump back This ain't a clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats they jums at Draw they guns back, screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of high The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the Settled by the judge many ago Three strong 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 of big gats, deep dish hammer rim caps a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the trim at on the jake got the Timb rack Blue collars metro it Thugs it, form partnership Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, when you seek sleek You get caught, rode the white and can't get off Big that trick off just get sent off They shoebox is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but yo, it's love here And it's felt by anybody that here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus be something that they really want here One year as a resident, deeper Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", they it Sittin on they stoop sippin Guinesses Usin native dialect in they the treeline blocks to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all around the world in great 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 From ?sun? to the ? to the Gardens White ?coff in they army jacket linings Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The goin wild This out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Brown's tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My Flatbush posse, generals of When it's time to form, call me And let song be, playin loud in Long B If you Bucktown STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw hammer back where you find the news tool crew cameras at It's my fam is at, summertime jame is at play Big and get you open like a sandal back Hotter than candle wax, you can't relax The crack babies tryin to find where they at It's off the black, wit big police scandals that Turn into screenplays sold to Miramax The type of place where check 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 blazin charm that have your cap floatin back The where the disposessed posted at Dope fiends out at Ave sellin zovarax You big ballin better keep your folded back Cuz once the young guns notice that over, black keep on takin it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched the local tax The I sharpen up my baritone vocals at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat