Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't a partner Sometimes I feel my only friend Is the city I live in, is Brooklyn Long as I here believe I'm on fire hey Cause it's the 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 where I rest is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and just Watch the go by and my thought connect I think about the time past and the to come Reminisce on Bed-Stuy I was pride and young I used to try and come, to the neighborhood Throw on my Izod, say a little 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 proceed at God's to perform my deed the now space and time, round the nine to five For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I ain't sitting roadside, that harder to plan I'm out here for my fam doing all I can I love my city, and gritty in land to outskirts Bucktown cause we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I back Walk the streets a sweet and get beat like drum 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 slums 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 Draw they back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the many years ago Three billion and here we go
Good 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 been at The home of big gats, dish hammer rim caps Have a mishap, ya wig back you go to get the fresh trim at Four on the Jake got the Timb collars metro carding it Thugs mobbing it, form armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big that trick off just get sent off They stash is all they seeds gotta live off real yo but still yo, it's love here And it's felt by anybody that here Out of take the train, plane and bus here Must be something that they really want One year as a resident, sentiment Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", representing it Sitting on front stoop sipping Guinesses Using native in they sentences From the blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local menaces all around 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, it's our style that's From "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette White "coff guawinas" in they army jacket Yo this goes out to my in Coney Isle night out in front The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Village The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Brown's Parkside tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the 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, playing loud in 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 tool cameras at where my fam is at, summertime jam is at They play Big and get you open a sandal back than candle wax, hustling you can't relax The crack babies to find where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big police 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 grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is that Be charm that have your wave cap floating back The doorstep where the posted at Dope fiends out at Ave selling zovarax You big balling keep your money folded back Cause once the young guns notice that it's over, Brooklyn keep on 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 MC's was a local cat