Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't a partner Sometimes I feel like my friend Is the city I in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I here believe I'm on fire hey Cause it's the is the place where I stay The in the world and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place where I The Place where I rest is on my day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and just the world go by and my thought connect I think about the time past and the to come Reminisce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and I used to try and come, to the function on my Izod, say a little something When I was a younging, before the days of thugging How me and Charlie (hey yo what?) I'm only bugging Fast forward, Nine-Now I team my seed 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 for my fam doing all that I can I love my city, sweet and gritty in land to Nickname Bucktown we grown to outburst redefine us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes over (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to your wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the that thump back This ain't a game clown, ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats they jums at Draw they back, momma screams where she sons at to hunt that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, is the place Settled by the judge many ago Three billion strong and we go
Good Vietnam! Ha (back up back up up back up back up) Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the that I live at Unlike any I ever been at The home of big gats, dish hammer rim caps Have a mishap, push ya wig Where you go to get the fresh at Four on the Jake got the rack Blue collars metro it Thugs mobbing it, partnership armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big that trick off just get sent off They shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta off It's real yo but yo, it's love here And felt by anybody that come here Out of towners take the train, and bus here Must be something that they want here One year as a resident, deeper Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", representing it Sitting on front stoop sipping Guinesses Using dialect in they sentences From the treeline to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local menaces all around the world in great distances And ain't a place that I know bear resemblance That's why we it The Not a borough or a prov, it's our style that's "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White "coff guawinas" in they army jacket Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The goin wild goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Brown's Parkside caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in Starite City busy 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 song be, playing loud in Long B If you Bucktown strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the where it happen at Live sway and the sharp balance of the axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they back It's you find the news tool crew cameras at It's my fam is at, summertime jam is at They play Big and get you like a sandal back Hotter than wax, hustling you can't relax The crack babies to find where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big scandals that Turn into actions screenplays to Miramax The type of place where they your appearance at And who know where all the hot 'lo gear is at The stomping grounds, where you find a pound, is that Be blazing that have your wave cap floating back The doorstep 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 that it's over, Brooklyn keep on taking it, worldwide we known for cats get it snatched like the local tax The place I sharpen up my baritone at Where one of the greatest was a local cat