Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I have a partner Sometimes I like my only friend Is the city I live in, is Brooklyn Long as I here believe I'm on fire hey it's the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the where I stay The Best in the 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, I sit back and just reflect Watch the world go by and my thought I about the time past and the time to come Reminisce 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 younging, before the days of How me and Charlie (hey yo what?) I'm only bugging Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my I must at God's speed to perform my deed Livin the now space and time, the nine to five For as as I'm alive, paw I got to strive I ain't sitting roadside, that ain't harder to I'm out for my fam doing all that I can I my city, sweet and gritty in land to outskirts Nickname cause we grown to outburst redefine us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like drum Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we back the marty to your face wit no place to run back I'm from the 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 they guns back, momma screams where she at Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of stakes The fourth largest, artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the judge many ago Three billion strong and we go
morning Vietnam! Ha (back up back up back up up back up) Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place that I at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, dish hammer rim caps Have a mishap, push ya wig Where you go to get the fresh at on the Jake got the Timb rack Blue metro carding it Thugs it, form partnership Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, you seek sleek 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 real yo but still yo, it's love here And it's felt by anybody that here Out of towners the train, plane and bus here Must be something they really want here One as a resident, deeper sentiment Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", representing it Sitting on they front stoop Guinesses Using native dialect in they From the blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all the world in great distances And ain't a place that I know that bear That's why we it The Not a borough or a prov, it's our style that's From "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette White "coff guawinas" in they army jacket Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The goin wild 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, generals of When time to form, just call me And let this be, playing loud in Long B If you Bucktown strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at Live sway and the balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer It's where you find the news crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, jam is at They play Big and get you open a sandal back Hotter candle wax, hustling you can't relax The crack babies trying to where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big police scandals Turn into actions screenplays sold to The type of place where they check your at And cats who know all the hot 'lo gear is at The stomping grounds, where you a pound, smoke is that Be blazing charm that have your cap floating back The doorstep where the posted at Dope out at Franklin Ave selling zovarax You big balling keep your money folded back Cause once the young guns notice that it's over, Brooklyn keep on taking it, worldwide we for that Flossy cats get it snatched like the tax The I sharpen up my baritone vocals at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat