Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel I don't have a partner Sometimes I feel like my only Is the I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I live believe 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 It's the L-Y-N is the where I stay The Place I rest is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit and just reflect Watch the go by and my thought connect I think about the past and the time to come Reminisce on when I was pride and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function Throw on my Izod, say a something I was just a younging, before the days of thugging How me and Charlie Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta my seed I proceed at God's speed to perform my deed Livin the now space and time, round the nine to 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, sweet and gritty in land to Nickname Bucktown cause we grown to Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I touch Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat drum tracks Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust Bring the marty to face wit no place to run back I'm from the that created the bass that thump back This a game clown, play 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 high The fourth largest, first artist, is the place Settled by the many years ago Three billion and here we go
morning Vietnam! Ha (back up back up back up up back up) Yo I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at Unlike any place I been at The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim Have a mishap, push ya wig you go to get the fresh trim at Four on the got the Timb rack Blue metro carding it Thugs it, form partnership Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, when you seek sleek You get caught, rode the white horse and 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, love here And felt by anybody that come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus Must be something that they really want One year as a resident, sentiment out "Go Brooklyn!", they representing it Sitting on they front stoop sipping native dialect in they sentences From the blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local shop all around the world in great distances And ain't a place that I know bear 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 army jacket linings Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The goin wild This goes out to 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 Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My Flatbush posse, of armies When it's to form, just call me And let this be, playing loud in Long B If you love strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at Live sway and the balance of the battle axe is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer back It's where you the news tool crew cameras at where my fam is at, summertime jam is at They play Big and get you open like a sandal Hotter than candle wax, you can't relax The crack babies trying to find where they at It's off the handle black, wit big police that Turn into actions screenplays sold to The type of place where check your appearance at And cats who know all the hot 'lo gear is at The stomping grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is Be charm that have your wave cap floating back The doorstep the dispossessed posted at Dope fiends out at Ave selling zovarax You big balling better keep your money folded Cause once the young guns that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on taking it, we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched like the tax The place I up my baritone vocals at Where one of the MC's was a local cat