Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't have a Sometimes I feel 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 I stay The in the world and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place where I The Place where I rest is on my day Bust it, sometimes I sit and just reflect Watch the world go by and my connect I think about the time past and the time to Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and 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 (aiyyo what?) I'm only 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 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 here for my fam all that I can I love my city, sweet and gritty in land to Bucktown cuz we grown to outburst Philosophy us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like tracks no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to your 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 guns back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, dream of high stakes The fourth largest, artist, Brooklyn is the place by the judge many years ago Three billion and here we go
MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up back up back up back up) in background] Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the that I live at any place I ever been at The home of big gats, dish hammer rim caps a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the trim at Four on the jake got the Timb Blue collars metro it Thugs mobbin it, partnership armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek ornaments You get caught, rode the white horse and get off Big dogs that trick off just get off shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, it's here And it's by anybody that come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus Must be something that they really here One year as a resident, sentiment Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", they it on they front stoop sippin Guinesses Usin native dialect in they From the treeline to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local shop all around the world in great distances And ain't a place I know that bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a or a prov, it's our style that's uncalm From ?sun? to the ? to the Lafayette White ?coff guawinas? in army jacket linings Yo this goes out to my cats in Coney Friday night out in front The goin wild This goes out to Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my trenny? 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 and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My Flatbush posse, of armies When it's to form, just call me And let song be, playin loud in Long B If you love STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at Live and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they back It's where you the news 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 tryin to find where they mama's at It's off the black, wit big police scandals that Turn into actions screenplays to Miramax The type of place where they check 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 your wave cap floatin back The where the disposessed posted at fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin zovarax You big ballin better keep your money back Cuz once the young guns notice it's over, black Brooklyn keep on takin it, we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched like the tax The place I up my baritone vocals at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat