Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel I don't have a partner Sometimes I like my only friend Is the city I in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I live believe I'm on fire hey Cuz the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K is the place where I stay The in the world and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place I stay The Place where I rest is on my 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 Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function Throw on my Izod, say a something I was just a youngin, before the days of thuggin How me and Charlie (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 long as I'm alive, paw I got to I ain't roadside, that ain't harder 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 touch Walk the streets like a sweet and get like drum tracks Catch no over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the that thump back This ain't a game clown, ya James Brown and jump back you want, Jack? Young cats stash they jums at Draw they back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, is the place Settled by the judge years ago billion strong and here we go
GOOD VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up back up back up back up) in background] Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place that I at Unlike any I ever 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 Four on the got the Timb rack Blue collars metro it Thugs mobbin it, partnership Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big that trick off just get sent off They stash is all they seeds gotta live off It's yo but still yo, it's love here And it's felt by anybody that here Out of towners take the train, and bus here Must be something that they really want One as a resident, deeper sentiment Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", representin it Sittin on they front stoop sippin Usin native in they sentences From the treeline to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local menaces all around the world in great distances And ain't a place that I that bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, our style that's uncalm From ?sun? to the ? to the Lafayette White ?coff guawinas? in they army linings Yo goes out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The Himalaya goin This goes out to Crown and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda Brown's Village Parkside caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in Starite City gettin To the Hook, to the East, to the Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My posse, generals of armies When it's time to form, just me And let this be, playin loud 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, draw they hammer back It's where you the news tool crew cameras at It's my fam is at, summertime jame is at They play Big and get you open like a back Hotter than candle wax, hustlin you can't The babies tryin 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 where they check your appearance at And cats who where all the hot 'lo gear is at The stompin grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is Be blazin charm that your wave cap floatin back The doorstep where the disposessed at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin You big ballin better keep your money folded Cuz once the young guns notice 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 one of the greatest MC's was a local cat