Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't have a Sometimes I feel like my friend Is the city I live in, is Brooklyn as I live here believe I'm on fire hey Cuz the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K is the place where I stay The in the world and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place where I The where I rest is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit and just reflect the world go by and my thought connect I about the time past and the time to come Reminesce on when I was pride and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function Throw on my Izod, say a little When I was just a youngin, before the of thuggin How me and Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin forward, Nine-Now I gotta 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 as I'm alive, paw I got to strive I sittin roadside, that ain't harder to plan I'm out for my fam doin all that I can I love my city, and gritty in land to outskirts Nickname Bucktown cuz we to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I back Walk the streets a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes jakes (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 thump This ain't a clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young stash they jums at Draw they back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the Settled by the judge years ago Three billion and here we go
MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up back up back up back up) [repeated in Yo I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at Unlike any I ever been at The home of big gats, deep hammer rim caps a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the trim at Four on the jake got the rack collars metro carding it Thugs mobbin it, form Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, when you seek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't 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 love And it's felt by that come here Out of take the train, plane and bus here Must be that they really want here One as a resident, deeper sentiment "Go Brooklyn!", they representin it Sittin on they front sippin Guinesses Usin native in they sentences From the blocks to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all the world in great distances And ain't a that I know that bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, it's our style uncalm From ?sun? to the ? to the Lafayette ?coff guawinas? in they army jacket linings Yo goes out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The Himalaya goin This goes out to Crown and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda Brown's Village Parkside tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the The cats out in City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My posse, generals of armies When it's time to form, call me And let this song be, playin loud in B If you Bucktown STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place where it at Live sway and the sharp balance of the axe is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer back It's you find the news tool crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, summertime is at They play Big and get you open like a sandal than candle wax, hustlin you can't relax The crack babies tryin to find they mama's at off the handle black, wit big police scandals that Turn actions screenplays sold to Miramax The type of where they check your appearance at And cats who where all the hot 'lo gear is at The stompin grounds, you find a pound, smoke is that Be charm that have your wave cap floatin back The doorstep the disposessed posted at Dope out at Franklin Ave sellin zovarax You big ballin better keep your money back Cuz once the young notice that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on takin it, worldwide we 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