Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I have a partner Sometimes I feel my only friend Is the city I live in, is Brooklyn as I live here believe I'm on fire hey Cause it's the is the place where I stay The Best in the and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the where 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 Bed-Stuy when I was pride and I used to try and come, to the neighborhood Throw on my Izod, say a little When I was just a younging, before the days of How me and Charlie Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only Fast forward, I gotta team my seed I must at God's speed to perform my deed the now space and time, round the nine to five For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I sitting roadside, that ain't harder to plan I'm out for my fam doing all that I can I love my city, and gritty in land to outskirts Nickname Bucktown cause we to outburst Philosophy redefine us, mines I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like tracks Catch no over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to your wit no place to run back I'm the slums that created the bass that thump back This a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? cats stash they jums at Draw they guns back, momma where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, dream of high stakes The largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the judge many 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 I live at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the fresh at Four on the Jake got the rack Blue collars metro it mobbing it, form partnership Increase armorment, pharmacist consequence, when you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the white horse and get off Big dogs that trick off get sent off They shoebox stash is all they gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, it's love And it's by anybody that come here Out of towners take the train, and bus here Must be that they really want here One as a resident, deeper sentiment out "Go Brooklyn!", they representing it Sitting on front stoop sipping Guinesses Using native dialect in sentences From the blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop shop menaces Travel all the world in great distances And ain't a place that I know bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a or a prov, it's our style that's uncalm From "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette White "coff guawinas" in army jacket linings Yo this goes out to my cats in Isle Friday night out in front The Himalaya wild goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Brown's Parkside tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the The cats out in Starite gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My Flatbush posse, generals of it's 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 place where it at sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, draw they hammer back It's 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 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 police that Turn into screenplays sold to Miramax The type of place where they check your at And cats who where all the hot 'lo gear is at The grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is that Be blazing that have your wave cap floating back The doorstep the dispossessed posted at Dope fiends out at Ave selling zovarax You big balling better keep your money folded Cause once the young guns that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on taking it, worldwide we for that Flossy cats get it snatched like the tax The I sharpen up my baritone vocals at Where one of the MC's was a local cat