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 only Is the city I live in, is beautiful Long as I live here believe I'm on hey Cause the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the where 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 is on my born 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 pride and 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 Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only bugging Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my I must proceed at speed to perform my deed Livin the now space and time, the nine to five For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I ain't sitting roadside, that ain't harder to I'm out here for my fam doing all I can I my city, sweet and gritty in land to outskirts Bucktown cause we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I back Walk the like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we back Bring the marty to your face wit no place to run I'm from the slums that created the bass that thump This a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats they jums at Draw they guns back, momma where she sons at to hunt that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the judge years ago billion strong and here we go
Good 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 been at The home of big gats, deep dish rim caps Have a mishap, push ya wig Where you go to get the fresh at Four on the got the Timb rack Blue metro carding it Thugs mobbing it, form Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big dogs that trick off just get off They stash is all they seeds gotta live off real yo but still yo, it's love here And felt by anybody that come here Out of towners the train, plane and bus here Must be that they really want here One as a resident, deeper sentiment Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", representing it Sitting on they front stoop sipping Using native dialect in sentences From the treeline to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all around the world in distances And ain't a place that I know bear resemblance That's why we it The Not a borough or a prov, our style that's uncalm From "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette White "coff guawinas" in they army jacket Yo goes out to my cats 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 tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties 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, 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 they hammer back It's you find the news tool crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, jam is at play Big and get you open like a sandal back Hotter candle wax, hustling you can't relax The crack babies trying to find where they at It's off the black, wit big police scandals that Turn actions screenplays sold to Miramax The of place where they 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 blazing charm that have wave cap floating back The doorstep where the dispossessed at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave zovarax You big balling better keep money folded back Cause once the young guns notice that it's over, Brooklyn keep on taking it, we known for that Flossy get it snatched like the local tax The place I sharpen up my baritone at Where one of the greatest was a local cat