Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo I feel like I don't have a partner Sometimes I feel like my friend Is the city I in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I live here believe I'm on hey Cause 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 L-Y-N is the place where I The Place where I is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit and just reflect the world go by and my thought connect I think about the past and the time to come Reminisce on Bed-Stuy I was pride and young I used to try and come, to the neighborhood on my Izod, say a little something When I was a younging, before the days of thugging How me and Charlie Chims (hey yo what?) I'm bugging Fast forward, I gotta team my seed I must proceed at God's 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 sitting roadside, that ain't harder to plan I'm out for my fam doing all that I can I love my city, and gritty in land to outskirts Nickname Bucktown we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I touch Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like tracks Catch no shakes over (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to 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 James and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats stash they at Draw they guns back, momma where she sons at to hunt that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, is the place Settled by the judge years ago Three billion strong and we go
morning Vietnam! Ha (back up back up back up back up up) Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place that I at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, deep hammer rim caps Have a mishap, ya wig back Where you go to get the fresh at Four on the got the Timb rack collars metro carding it Thugs mobbing it, form Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, when you sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big dogs that off just get sent off shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta live off It's yo but still yo, it's love here And it's felt by that come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus Must be something that they really want One as a resident, deeper sentiment Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", they it Sitting on they front stoop Guinesses Using native dialect in sentences From the treeline to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all around the in great distances And ain't a place that I know that resemblance That's why we it The Not a borough or a prov, it's our that's uncalm "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White "coff guawinas" in they jacket linings Yo goes out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday out in front The Himalaya goin wild goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Village Parkside tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the The out in Starite City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My Flatbush posse, of armies When it's time to form, call me And let song be, playing loud in Long B If you love strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place where it at Live sway and the balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer It's you find the news tool crew cameras at where my fam is at, summertime jam is at They play Big and get you like a sandal back Hotter candle wax, hustling you can't relax The babies trying to find where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big police that Turn into actions sold to Miramax The type of place where they check your at And cats who where all the hot 'lo gear is at The stomping grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is Be blazing charm that have wave cap floating back The doorstep where the dispossessed at fiends out at Franklin Ave selling zovarax You big balling better keep money folded back Cause once the young guns notice that over, black Brooklyn on taking it, worldwide 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 MC's was a cat