Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I have a partner Sometimes I feel like my only Is the I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I live here I'm on fire hey it's the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place I stay The Best in the and all USA the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place where I 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 think about the time past and the time to Reminisce on Bed-Stuy when I was and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function on my Izod, say a little something When I was just a younging, before the days of How me and Charlie Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only 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, ain't harder to plan I'm out for my fam doing all that I can I love my city, sweet and gritty in land to Nickname Bucktown we grown to outburst redefine us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets like a and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back the marty to your face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the that thump back This ain't a game clown, ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats stash they at Draw they back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of stakes The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the Settled by the judge many ago Three billion strong and we go
Good Vietnam! Ha (back up back up back up up back up) Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the that I live at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, deep dish rim caps Have a mishap, ya wig back Where you go to get the trim at on the Jake got the Timb rack Blue collars carding it mobbing it, form partnership Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, when you sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse 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 yo, it's love here And it's felt by anybody that come Out of take the train, plane and bus here Must be that they really want here One year as a resident, deeper Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", they it on they front stoop sipping Guinesses Using dialect in they sentences the treeline blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all around the world in 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 style uncalm From "sun" to the ? to the Gardens "coff guawinas" in they army jacket linings Yo this goes out to my 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" Village tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in Starite City gettin To the Hook, to the East, to the Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My Flatbush posse, generals of it's 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 where it at Live sway and the balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs they hammer back It's where you find the news tool crew at where my fam is at, summertime jam is at They play Big and get you like a sandal back Hotter than wax, hustling you can't relax The crack trying to find where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big scandals that Turn actions screenplays sold to Miramax The type of place where they check appearance 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 have your wave cap floating back The doorstep the dispossessed posted at fiends out at Franklin Ave selling zovarax You big balling better keep your 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 the local tax The I sharpen up my baritone vocals at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat