Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't a partner Sometimes I feel like my friend Is the I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn 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 is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and reflect Watch the go by and my thought connect I think about the time and the time to come Reminesce on 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 just a youngin, before the of thuggin How me and Charlie (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta my seed I must proceed at God's speed to my deed Livin the now and time, round the nine to five For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I sittin roadside, that 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 cuz we grown to outburst Philosophy us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets like a and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to face wit no place to run back I'm the slums that created the bass that thump back This ain't a game clown, play ya Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats stash jums at Draw guns back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, dream of high stakes The largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the many 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, ya wig back you go to get the fresh trim at Four on the got the Timb rack Blue metro carding it Thugs mobbin it, form Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek ornaments You get caught, the white horse and can't get off Big dogs that off just get sent off They shoebox stash is all they seeds 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 want here One as a resident, deeper sentiment Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", they it Sittin on they front stoop sippin Usin native in they sentences From the blocks to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local shop Travel all the world in great distances And ain't a that I know that bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, our style that's uncalm From to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White guawinas? in they army jacket linings Yo goes out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The Himalaya wild This goes out to Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my trenny? Brown's Village tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in City gettin busy 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 this song be, playin loud in B If you Bucktown STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the where it happen at Live and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs they hammer back It's where you find the news tool crew at It's my fam is at, summertime jame is at They Big and get you open like a sandal back than candle wax, hustlin you can't relax The crack babies to find where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big scandals that Turn into actions sold to Miramax The type of where they check your appearance at And cats who know where all the hot 'lo is at The stompin grounds, where you find a pound, is that Be blazin charm that have your cap floatin back The doorstep where the posted at Dope fiends out at Ave sellin zovarax You big better keep your money 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 I sharpen up my baritone vocals at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat