Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I like I don't have a partner Sometimes I feel like my friend Is the I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I here believe I'm on fire hey Cause it's the L-Y-N is the where I stay The in the world and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place where I The Place where I rest is on my day Bust it, I sit back and just reflect Watch the world go by and my connect I think about the time past and the to come Reminisce on when I was pride and young I used to try and come, to the neighborhood 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 forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my seed I must proceed at speed to perform my deed Livin the now space and time, the nine to five For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I ain't roadside, that ain't harder to plan I'm out here for my fam doing all 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 Walk the streets like a and get beat like drum 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 created the bass that thump back This ain't a game clown, play ya 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, dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the Settled by the many years ago Three billion and here we go
Good Vietnam! Ha (back up back up back up up back up) Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the that I live at Unlike any place I been at The home of big gats, dish hammer rim caps Have a mishap, push ya wig Where you go to get the trim at on the Jake got the Timb rack Blue collars carding it Thugs mobbing it, partnership Increase armorment, street consequence, when you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the white horse and get off Big dogs that trick off just get off They shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta off It's real yo but still yo, it's 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, sentiment Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", they it on they front stoop sipping Guinesses Using native dialect in sentences From the blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local shop Travel all around the world in great And a place that I know that bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, it's our that's uncalm From "sun" to the ? to the Gardens "coff guawinas" in they army jacket linings Yo goes out to my cats in Coney Isle night out in front The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Brown's tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The out in Starite City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My Flatbush posse, of armies When it's time to form, just me And let this be, playing loud in Long B If you Bucktown strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they back It's where you find the news tool crew at where my fam is at, summertime jam is at They play Big and get you open like a back Hotter candle wax, hustling you can't relax The crack babies trying to find where they at off the handle black, wit big police scandals that Turn into actions screenplays to Miramax The of place where 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 fiends out at Franklin Ave selling You big balling better keep your money folded Cause once the young guns notice that it's over, Brooklyn on taking it, worldwide we known for that cats get it snatched like the local tax The I sharpen up my baritone vocals at Where one of the MC's was a local cat