Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't a partner Sometimes I feel my only friend 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 L-Y-N is the place where I The Best in the and all USA the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place where I The Place I rest is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and just Watch the world go by and my thought I think about the time past and the to come on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and young I used to try and come, to the function Throw on my Izod, say a something I was just a younging, before the days of thugging How me and Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only bugging Fast forward, I gotta team my seed I must proceed at God's to perform my deed Livin the now space and time, the nine to five For as as I'm alive, paw I got to strive I ain't sitting roadside, that ain't harder to 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 a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to face 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 guns back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, dream of high stakes The largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the judge years 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 place that I at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, dish hammer rim caps Have a mishap, ya wig back Where you go to get the trim at Four on the Jake got the Timb Blue collars carding it Thugs it, form partnership Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, when you sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big dogs that trick off just get off They stash is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, it's love And felt by anybody that come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus Must be something that they really want One as a resident, deeper sentiment out "Go Brooklyn!", they representing it Sitting on they front stoop Guinesses native dialect in they sentences From the treeline blocks to the To the Mom & Pop local shop all around the world in great distances And a place that I know that 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 Friday night out in The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Village tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in Starite City gettin To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My posse, generals of armies When time to form, just call me And let this song be, playing loud in B If you love strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place where it at Live and the sharp balance of the battle axe is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer back It's you find the news tool crew cameras at where 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 they at It's off the handle black, wit big police that Turn into screenplays sold to Miramax The type of place where they your appearance at And cats who know where all the hot 'lo is at The grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is that Be blazing charm that have your cap floating back The doorstep where the dispossessed at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave selling You big balling keep your money folded back Cause once the young guns that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on taking it, worldwide we for that Flossy cats get it like the local tax The place I up my baritone vocals at Where one of the greatest was a local cat