Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel I don't have a partner I feel like my only friend Is the city I live in, is beautiful Long as I live 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 is the place where 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 and the time to come Reminesce on Bed-Stuy I was pride and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function Throw on my Izod, say a little When I was a youngin, before the days of thuggin How me and Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin Fast forward, I gotta team my seed I must proceed at speed to perform my deed the now space and time, round the nine to five For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I ain't sittin roadside, ain't harder to plan I'm out here for my fam doin all I can I love my city, sweet and in land to outskirts Nickname Bucktown cuz we grown to Philosophy redefine us, touch 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 back This ain't a game clown, ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats they jums at Draw they guns back, momma screams where she at Tryin to hunt that, dream of high stakes The largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the place by the judge many years ago Three strong and here we go
MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up up back up back up) [repeated in background] Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place I live at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, deep dish rim caps Have a mishap, ya wig back you go to get the fresh trim at Four on the jake got the Timb Blue collars metro it Thugs mobbin it, form Increase armorment, street consequence, when you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the white horse and get off Big dogs trick off just get sent off They shoebox stash is all seeds gotta live off It's yo but still yo, it's love here And it's by anybody that come here Out of take the train, plane and bus here Must be something that they want here One year as a resident, sentiment "Go Brooklyn!", they representin it Sittin on front stoop sippin Guinesses Usin native dialect in sentences From the blocks to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all around the in great distances And ain't a place I know that bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, it's our style that's From ?sun? to the ? to the Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in they army jacket Yo goes 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? 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 posse, generals of armies When it's 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 Live sway and the sharp of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs they hammer back It's you find 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 than candle wax, hustlin you can't relax The babies tryin to find where they mama's at off the handle black, wit big police scandals that Turn into actions screenplays to Miramax The type of where they check your appearance at And cats who where all the hot 'lo gear is at The grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is that Be charm that have your wave cap floatin back The doorstep where the disposessed at Dope fiends out at Ave sellin zovarax You big ballin better keep your money folded Cuz once the young notice that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on takin it, worldwide we for that Flossy get it snatched like the local tax The place I up my baritone vocals at one of the greatest MC's was a local cat