Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel I don't have a partner Sometimes I feel my only friend Is the city I in, is beautiful Brooklyn as I live here believe I'm on fire hey Cuz it's the L-Y-N is the place where I The in the world and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place I stay The Place where I rest is on my day Bust it, sometimes I sit and just reflect Watch the world go by and my thought I think about the time past and the to come Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and I used to try and come, to the function Throw on my Izod, say a something When I was just a youngin, before the days of How me and Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my I must proceed at God's speed to perform my Livin the now and time, round the nine to five For as as I'm alive, paw I got to strive I sittin 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 land to Nickname cuz we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, mines I touch back Walk the like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we back Bring the to your 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 James Brown and back What you want, Jack? Young cats stash they at they guns back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, is the place Settled by the judge years ago Three billion and here we go
MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up back up back up up) [repeated in background] Yo I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at any place I ever been at The of big gats, deep dish hammer rim caps a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the trim at Four on the jake got the rack Blue metro carding it Thugs it, form partnership armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the white and can't get off Big that trick off just get sent off They shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta off It's real yo but still yo, it's love And it's felt by anybody that come Out of towners the train, plane and bus here Must be something that they really want One year as a resident, deeper "Go Brooklyn!", they representin it Sittin on they stoop sippin Guinesses Usin native in they sentences the treeline blocks to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop shop menaces all around the world in great distances And ain't a place that I know that resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, it's our style uncalm From to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in army jacket linings Yo this goes out to my cats in Coney Friday night out in front The Himalaya goin This goes out to Crown Heights and Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Brown's Parkside caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in Starite City busy To the Hook, to the East, to the Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My Flatbush posse, of armies When it's time to form, just me And let this song be, playin in Long B If you love STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is at, thugs draw they hammer back It's where you find the news crew cameras at where my fam is at, summertime jame is at They play Big and get you open like a back Hotter than candle wax, you can't relax The babies tryin to find where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big police 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 grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is that Be blazin charm that have wave cap floatin back The where the disposessed posted at fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin zovarax You big ballin better keep your folded back Cuz once the young guns notice that over, black keep on takin it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it like the local tax The I sharpen up my baritone vocals at Where one of the MC's was a local cat