Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't a partner Sometimes I feel my only friend Is the city I in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I live here believe I'm on hey Cuz it's the is the place where I stay The Best in the and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place I stay The Place I rest is on my born day it, sometimes 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 I was pride 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 Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my seed I must proceed at God's 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 sittin roadside, that harder to plan I'm out for my fam doin all that I can I love my city, sweet and in land to outskirts Nickname cuz we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I touch Walk the streets like a and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we back the marty to your face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the that thump back This ain't a clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats stash jums at Draw they guns back, momma screams she sons at to hunt that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the Settled by the judge years ago Three billion and here we go
MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up back up up back up) [repeated in background] Yo I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at any place I ever been 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 rack Blue collars carding it Thugs it, form partnership Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek sleek You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big dogs that trick off get sent off shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, it's here And it's felt by anybody come here Out of towners the train, plane and bus here Must be something that they really want One year as a resident, sentiment "Go Brooklyn!", they representin it Sittin on they front stoop sippin Usin native dialect in sentences From the treeline blocks to the To the Mom & Pop local shop Travel all around the 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 to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in they jacket linings Yo this goes out to my in Coney Isle Friday out in front The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv The nighties, and all my ?yarda Brown's Village Parkside tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the 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 it's time to form, just call me And let this song be, playin loud in B If you love STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at Live sway and the sharp balance of the axe Irons is brandished at, draw they hammer back It's where you find the news tool crew at It's my fam is at, summertime jame is at They play Big and get you like a sandal back than candle wax, hustlin you can't relax The crack 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 place where they check your at And cats who know all the hot 'lo gear is at The stompin grounds, you find a pound, smoke is that Be charm that have your wave cap floatin back The doorstep where the posted at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin You big ballin better keep your folded back Cuz once the young guns notice that over, black Brooklyn keep on takin it, worldwide we for that Flossy cats get it snatched the local tax The place I sharpen up my vocals at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat