Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I have a partner I feel like my only friend Is the city I live in, is 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 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 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 time and the time to come on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and young I used to try and come, to the function on my Izod, say a little something When I was just a younging, the days of thugging How me and Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only bugging Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my I must proceed at God's speed to perform my Livin the now 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 here for my fam all that I can I love my city, sweet and in land to outskirts Nickname Bucktown cause we grown to redefine us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like tracks Catch no shakes jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to your wit no place to run back I'm the slums that created the bass that thump back This ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and back What you want, Jack? Young cats they jums at Draw they guns back, screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the Settled by the judge years ago Three billion and here we go
morning 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 hammer rim Have a mishap, ya wig back you go to get the fresh trim at Four on the got the Timb rack Blue metro carding it mobbing it, form partnership Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the white and can't get off Big that trick off just get sent off They shoebox stash is all they gotta live off It's real yo but yo, it's love here And it's felt by anybody that here Out of towners take the train, and bus here be something that they really want here One year as a resident, deeper Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", representing it on they front stoop sipping Guinesses Using native dialect in sentences From the blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop shop menaces all around the world in great distances And ain't a place that I know that bear why we it The Planet Not a or a prov, it's our style that's uncalm "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White "coff guawinas" in they army jacket Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday out in front The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Village The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Village Parkside tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the The cats out in City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My posse, generals of armies 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 sharp balance of the axe Irons is brandished at, thugs they hammer back It's where you find the news tool crew at It's where my fam is at, jam is at They play Big and get you open a sandal back Hotter candle wax, hustling you can't relax The crack babies trying to find they mama's at It's off the black, wit big police scandals that Turn into actions sold to Miramax The type of place where check your appearance at And cats who know where all the hot 'lo is at The stomping grounds, where you find a pound, is that Be blazing charm that have wave cap floating back The doorstep where the dispossessed at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave selling You big balling better keep money folded back Cause the young guns notice that it's over, black keep on taking it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched like the tax The place I sharpen up my baritone at one of the greatest MC's was a local cat