Boom dash, I had to break, I had to getaway my bags, to leave for good, it was a monday Kissed my mother, gave my a pound Then he hugged me, and then he around I the duffelbag over my shoulder It was to get props kid, cause now I'm older Time to fend for myself So i'ma go for mine, and maybe never come Stopped at the lye spot I hit the train station Needed boom for the mental relaxation It took the last of my loot to make move troop But I ain't tryin to work in a suit Plus my aunt's got a room that's for As long as there's no hoes and I come home bent So the bullshit I'm audi I'm on a mission, if I stay I'll go crazy I'm make it God damnit Out in b-r-double-o-k-lyn, the They never it just slam it Out in b-r-o-o-k-lyn, the
Crash boom I used to hang at four corners And all the spots in where niggaz carry burners But I was more turned on by the So one cold morning, I home Next I'm smokin on ? Or workin in a mail uptown, feelin sick and Tired, of all these fucked up dues I wasn't tryin to -- I refused Had a uptown, one in queens and one in jersey all you need to get by, is a girlie But yo I still happy I seen a lot of ill on my block, happen nightly East new york is no kid And peace to my man doin his bad I went to flatbush to buy incense and Stopped at the bookstands for somethin to That shit was rough cause my was bare And like the sayin goes, sometimes life fair But in my there ain't no quittin So I stayed up late, to write some to some rhythms Seconds away from just But fuckit I'll maintain, one day be hittin See i'ma make it God Out in b-r-double-o-k-lyn, the I'll never fake it slam it There in b-r-o-o-k-lyn, the
And you can, walk the walk the talk but don't flaunt Cause shorty's scheamin on your rings and fronts But don't sweat it, cause that's the life out A lot of niggaz, be livin real trife out I got my own place in to many others, as do or die Malcolm x boulevard and avenue Smokin up the fat trey bags the crew Me and the niggaz troy and Used to twist dutch masters, we got nice I used to with the brothers by the spot They had to hustle but still knew a lot To get my had to go to fort greene On myrtle ave, to get a fade with the clean to fulton just to look around Just to roam around, and a chick to go uptown And check a or some shit like that I couldn't spend but yo my game was fat I remember one chick, she brought me a beeper one week later, she got me some sneakers But then I stepped, cause I out about her rep And I goin out bein no bitch's pet But I used to lay up in the crib to red and marley, wishin I was on kid Saved my dough, on the down low Lounged and drank 40's tommy, hill and gunsmoke And lil' dap to come by strapped Nice off a l cause we stayed that I used to miss my moms Gunshots in the twilight, people every night But i'ma be still Cause i'ma keep writin shit and perfectin my I'm make it God damnit in b-r-double-o-k-lyn, the planet I fake it just slam it Here in b-r-o-o-k-lyn, the *echoes*