Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel I don't have a partner Sometimes I feel like my friend Is the city I in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I live here believe I'm on hey Cause the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place where I The in the world and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place where I The Place I rest is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and reflect Watch the go by and my thought connect 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 something When I was just a younging, 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 at God's speed to perform my deed Livin the now 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 harder to I'm out here for my fam all that I can I love my city, sweet and gritty in land to Nickname cause 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 face wit no place to run I'm from the slums that created the bass that back This a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats stash jums at they guns back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring of high stakes The fourth largest, artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the judge years ago Three billion strong and we go
morning Vietnam! Ha (back up up back up back up back up) Yo I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at Unlike any place I been at The home of big gats, deep hammer rim caps a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the fresh at Four on the Jake got the Timb collars metro carding it Thugs it, form partnership armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek sleek You get caught, rode the white and can't get off Big dogs that off just get sent off shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, it's here And it's felt by anybody come here Out of towners take the train, and bus here Must be that they really want here One year as a resident, sentiment out "Go Brooklyn!", they representing it Sitting on they stoop sipping Guinesses Using dialect in they sentences From the blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local shop Travel all around the world in distances And ain't a place I know that bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, it's our style that's "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White "coff guawinas" in they jacket linings Yo this goes out to my in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The Himalaya wild This out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Village Parkside tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the The out in Starite City 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 this 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 of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer where you find the news tool crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, jam is at They Big and get you open like a sandal back Hotter than candle wax, hustling you relax The crack babies trying to find they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big scandals that Turn into screenplays sold 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 charm that your wave cap floating back The doorstep where the posted at fiends out at Franklin Ave selling zovarax You big balling better keep money folded back Cause the young guns 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 vocals at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat