Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't have a I feel like my only friend Is the I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn 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 I stay The Best in the and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place I stay The where I rest is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and reflect Watch the world go by and my thought I think about the time past and the time to Reminisce on when I was pride and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function on my Izod, say a little something When I was a younging, before the days of thugging How me and Charlie Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only Fast forward, Nine-Now I team my seed I must proceed at God's to perform my deed 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, that ain't harder to I'm out here for my fam doing all 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 like a sweet and get beat like tracks Catch no shakes over (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the to your face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the bass that thump This a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back you want, Jack? Young cats stash they jums at Draw they guns back, momma screams she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of high 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 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, deep dish hammer rim Have a mishap, push ya wig you go to get the fresh trim at Four on the Jake got the Timb Blue collars carding it mobbing it, form partnership Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the white and can't get off Big dogs that trick off get sent off They shoebox stash is all seeds gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, love here And felt by anybody that come here Out of take the train, plane and bus here Must be something that they really here One year as a resident, sentiment out "Go Brooklyn!", they representing it Sitting on they stoop sipping Guinesses Using native in they sentences From the blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop shop menaces Travel all around the in great distances And ain't a place that I know that 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 "coff guawinas" in they army jacket linings Yo this goes out to my cats in Coney Friday night out in front The Himalaya wild This goes out to Crown and Smurv 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 Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My posse, generals of armies 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 place it happen at Live sway and the sharp of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they back It's where you the news tool crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, jam is at They play Big and get you open like a sandal Hotter than wax, hustling you can't relax The crack trying to find where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big scandals that Turn into actions screenplays sold to 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, is that Be blazing charm that your wave cap floating back The where the dispossessed posted at fiends out at Franklin Ave selling zovarax You big balling keep your money folded back Cause the young guns notice that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on it, worldwide we known for that cats get it snatched like the local tax The place I up my baritone vocals at Where one of the MC's was a local cat