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 beautiful Long as I live believe I'm on fire hey Cause the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K is the place where I stay The Best in the and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place where I The Place I rest is on my born day Bust it, I sit back and just reflect Watch the world go by and my connect I think about the time past and the to come Reminisce on Bed-Stuy I was pride and young I used to try and come, to the function Throw on my Izod, say a little 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 proceed at God's 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, 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 Bucktown cause we grown to outburst Philosophy us, touch mines I touch back the streets like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we back Bring the marty to your wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the that thump back ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young stash they jums at they guns back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, is the place Settled by the judge many ago Three strong and here we go
Good Vietnam! Ha (back up up back up back up back up) Yo I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at Unlike any place I been at The of big gats, deep dish hammer rim caps a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the trim at on the Jake got the Timb rack Blue collars carding it Thugs mobbing it, partnership Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, when you seek sleek You get caught, the white horse and can't get off Big dogs that trick off get sent off They shoebox stash is all they gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, it's here And it's by anybody that come here Out of towners take the train, and bus here Must be something they really want here One year as a resident, deeper out "Go Brooklyn!", they representing it Sitting on they stoop sipping Guinesses native dialect in they sentences From the treeline blocks to the To the Mom & Pop local shop Travel all the world in great distances And ain't a place that I know bear resemblance That's why we it The Not a or a prov, it's our style that's uncalm From "sun" to the ? to the Gardens White "coff guawinas" in they army linings Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The Himalaya wild This out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Brown's Parkside caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties 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 time to form, just call me And let this song be, playing in Long B If you love strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place where it at Live and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is at, thugs draw they hammer back where you find the news tool crew cameras at It's 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 babies trying to find where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big police scandals Turn into screenplays sold to Miramax The of place where 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 that have your wave cap floating back The doorstep where the posted at Dope out at Franklin Ave selling zovarax You big balling better keep your money folded Cause once the young guns notice that it's over, keep on taking it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched the local tax The I sharpen up my baritone vocals at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat