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 friend Is the city I live in, is Brooklyn Long as I live here I'm on fire hey Cause it's the L-Y-N is the where I stay The in the world 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 it, sometimes I sit back and just reflect Watch the world go by and my thought I think about the time past and the time to Reminisce on Bed-Stuy when I was and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function Throw on my Izod, say a little I was just a younging, before the days of thugging How me and Charlie Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my I must proceed at God's to perform my deed Livin the now space and time, round the nine to For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I ain't sitting roadside, that harder to plan I'm out for my fam doing all that I can I love my city, and gritty in land to outskirts Nickname Bucktown we grown to outburst redefine us, touch mines I touch back Walk the like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust Bring the to your face 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 jump What you want, Young cats stash they jums at Draw they guns back, screams where she sons at Tryin to that, recurring dream of high stakes The largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the judge years ago Three strong and here we go
Good 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 I ever been at The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim Have a mishap, ya wig back Where you go to get the fresh at Four on the got the Timb rack Blue collars metro it Thugs mobbing it, form armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek ornaments You get caught, rode the white and can't get off Big dogs that off just get sent off They shoebox stash is all they seeds live off It's yo but still yo, it's love here And it's by anybody that come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus be something that they really want here One as a resident, deeper sentiment out "Go Brooklyn!", they representing it Sitting on they front stoop sipping Using native dialect in sentences From the blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all around the in great distances And ain't a place that I know bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, our style that's uncalm From "sun" to the ? to the Gardens White "coff guawinas" in army jacket linings Yo this goes out to my in Coney Isle night out in front The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Village The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Brown's Parkside caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in Starite gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My Flatbush posse, of armies it's 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 where it happen at Live sway and the sharp balance of the axe Irons is brandished at, draw they hammer back It's where you find the news tool cameras at It's my fam is at, summertime jam is at They Big and get you open like a sandal back Hotter than wax, hustling you can't relax The crack babies trying to find where mama's at It's off the black, wit big police scandals that into actions screenplays sold to Miramax The type of place they check your appearance at And who know where all the hot 'lo gear is at The stomping grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is Be blazing charm that have wave cap floating back The doorstep where the dispossessed at Dope out at Franklin Ave selling zovarax You big balling keep your money folded back Cause once the young notice that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on taking it, worldwide we for that Flossy get it snatched like the local tax The place I sharpen up my baritone at Where one of the greatest was a local cat