Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't a partner Sometimes I feel like my only Is the city I live in, is Brooklyn as I live here believe I'm on fire hey Cause the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place where I The Best in the and all USA the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the where I stay The Place I rest is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and just Watch the world go by and my connect I think the time past and the time to come Reminisce on Bed-Stuy when I was and young I used to try and come, to the function Throw on my Izod, say a something When I was just a younging, the days of thugging How me and Charlie Chims (hey yo what?) I'm bugging Fast forward, Nine-Now I team my seed I must proceed at God's speed to perform my 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, ain't harder to plan I'm out for my fam doing all that I can I love my city, sweet and gritty in to outskirts Bucktown cause we grown to outburst Philosophy us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat drum tracks Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we back Bring the marty to your face wit no to run back I'm from the that created the bass that thump back This ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump What you want, Jack? Young cats they jums at Draw guns 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 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 that I live at Unlike any place I ever at The of big gats, deep 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 it, form partnership armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek sleek You get caught, rode the white horse and get off Big dogs trick off just get sent off They stash is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, it's here And it's felt by anybody that here Out of towners take the train, and bus here Must be something that they really want One as a resident, deeper sentiment out "Go Brooklyn!", they representing it Sitting on front stoop sipping Guinesses Using native dialect in sentences From the treeline to the tenements To the Mom & Pop shop menaces Travel all the world in great distances And ain't a that I know that bear resemblance That's why we it The Not a borough or a prov, it's our that's uncalm From "sun" to the ? to the Gardens White "coff guawinas" in they army linings Yo this goes out to my cats in Coney night out in front The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Crown and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Brown's Parkside 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 time to form, call me And let this song be, playing loud in B If you love strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the where it happen at Live sway and the sharp of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, draw they hammer back 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 open like a sandal Hotter than candle wax, hustling you can't The babies trying to find where they mama's at It's off the black, wit big police scandals that Turn into actions screenplays to Miramax The type of place they check your appearance at And cats who know where all the hot 'lo is at The stomping grounds, you find a pound, smoke is that Be blazing charm that have your wave cap back The where the dispossessed posted at Dope fiends out at Ave selling zovarax You big balling keep your money folded back Cause once the young guns notice it's over, black Brooklyn keep on taking it, worldwide we known for Flossy cats get it snatched the local tax The place I sharpen up my baritone at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat