Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I like I don't have a partner I feel 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 is the place where I stay The Place where I is on my born day it, sometimes I sit back and just reflect Watch the world go by and my connect I about the time past and the time to come on Bed-Stuy 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 Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm buggin Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta my seed I must at God's speed to perform my deed Livin the now and time, round the nine to five For as as I'm alive, paw I got to strive 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 I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like drum Catch no shakes over (boomp-boomp!) we bust back 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, play ya James Brown and jump What you want, Jack? Young cats stash jums at Draw guns back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to that, recurring dream of high stakes The largest, first 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 up back up) [repeated in background] Yo sometimes I sit back, on the place that I live at Unlike any place I been at The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the trim at Four on the jake got the Timb Blue collars carding it mobbin it, form partnership Increase armorment, street consequence, when you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the white and can't 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 felt by anybody that come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus be something that they really want here One as a resident, deeper sentiment Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", they it Sittin on they front stoop Guinesses native dialect in they sentences From the treeline to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all around the world in great And ain't a place that I know that resemblance why we it The Planet Not a or a prov, it's our style that's uncalm ?sun? to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in they jacket linings Yo this goes out to my cats in Coney Friday out in front The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Brown's 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 posse, generals of armies When time to form, just call me And let this song be, loud in Long B If you Bucktown STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at Live sway and the sharp balance of the axe Irons is brandished at, thugs they hammer back It's where you find the news crew cameras at It's my fam is at, summertime jame is at play Big and get you open like a sandal back Hotter than wax, hustlin you can't relax The babies tryin to find where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big scandals that Turn into screenplays sold to Miramax The type of place where check your appearance at And cats who where 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 the disposessed posted at Dope out at Franklin Ave sellin zovarax You big ballin better keep your money folded Cuz once the young guns notice that it's over, Brooklyn keep on takin it, we known for that cats get it snatched like the local tax The place I up my baritone vocals at Where one of the greatest was a local cat