Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I have a partner Sometimes I like my only friend Is the city I live in, is beautiful Long as I here believe I'm on fire hey Cause it's the 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 I stay The where 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 and the time to come 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 When I was just a younging, before the of thugging How me and Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only bugging Fast forward, Nine-Now I team my seed I must proceed at speed to perform my deed the now space and time, round the nine to five For as as I'm alive, paw I got to strive I ain't sitting roadside, that ain't to plan I'm out for my fam doing all that I can I love my city, sweet and in land to outskirts Nickname Bucktown we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch I touch back the streets like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the to your face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums created the bass that thump back ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats stash jums at Draw they back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of stakes The fourth largest, artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the judge years ago billion strong and here we go
Good Vietnam! Ha (back up back up back up back up up) Yo sometimes I sit back, on the place that I live at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, deep 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 metro carding it Thugs mobbing it, form armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek sleek You get caught, the white horse and can't get off Big that trick off just get sent off They stash is all they seeds gotta live off real yo but still yo, it's love here And it's felt by anybody that come Out of take the train, plane and bus here Must be that they really want here One year as a resident, deeper Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", representing it on they front stoop sipping Guinesses Using dialect in they sentences the treeline blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop shop menaces all around the world in great distances And ain't a place I know that 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 linings Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Brown's Parkside tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the The out in Starite City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My Flatbush posse, of armies When it's to form, just call me And let this song be, playing 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 hammer 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 than candle 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 Turn into actions screenplays to Miramax The type of place where they check your 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 have your wave cap floating back The doorstep where the dispossessed at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave selling You big balling better keep your money back Cause the young guns notice that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched the local tax The place I sharpen up my baritone at Where one of the greatest was a local cat