Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I have a partner Sometimes I feel my only friend Is the I live in, is beautiful 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 in the world and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place I stay The Place where I rest is on my day Bust it, sometimes I sit and just reflect the world go by and my thought connect I think the time past and the time to come Reminisce on when I was pride and young I used to try and come, to the neighborhood Throw on my Izod, say a little When I was a younging, before the days of thugging How me and Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only bugging Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta my seed I must at God's speed to perform my deed Livin the now space and time, round the to five For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I sitting roadside, that ain't harder to plan I'm out here for my fam all that I can I love my city, sweet and gritty in to outskirts Nickname Bucktown cause we grown to redefine us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat drum tracks Catch no over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to your wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the bass that back This ain't a game clown, ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young stash they jums at Draw they guns back, screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, is the place Settled by the judge many ago Three strong and here we go
morning Vietnam! Ha (back up up back up back up back up) Yo sometimes I sit back, on the place that I live at any place I ever 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 Jake got the Timb Blue collars carding it Thugs it, form partnership armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, when you sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big dogs that 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 Must be something they really want here One year as a resident, sentiment Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", representing it Sitting on they front stoop sipping Using native in they sentences From the blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all the world in great distances And ain't a place that I know that 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 jacket linings Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The goin wild This out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Village Parkside tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the 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 When time to form, just call me And let this song be, playing in Long B If you Bucktown strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at Live and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is at, thugs draw they hammer back It's where you find the news crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, jam is at They play Big and get you like a sandal back Hotter than candle wax, hustling you relax The crack babies to find where they mama's at off the handle black, wit big police scandals that Turn into actions screenplays sold to 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 a pound, smoke is that Be blazing charm that your wave cap floating 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 that it's over, black Brooklyn on taking it, worldwide we known for that cats get it snatched like the local tax The I sharpen up my baritone vocals at one of the greatest MC's was a local cat