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 live in, is beautiful Long as I live here I'm on fire hey it's the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place I stay The in the world and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the place I stay The Place where I rest is on my day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and just Watch the go by and my thought connect I about the time past and the time to come Reminisce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and I used to try and come, to the function Throw on my Izod, say a little When I was just a younging, before the days of How me and Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only bugging Fast forward, I gotta team my seed I must proceed at God's speed to my deed Livin the now space and time, round the to five For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I ain't sitting roadside, 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 cause we grown to redefine us, touch mines I touch back Walk the like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that the bass that thump back This ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump What you want, Young cats stash they jums at Draw they guns back, momma screams where she at Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of high The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the by the judge many years ago Three billion strong and we go
morning Vietnam! Ha (back up up back up back up back up) Yo sometimes I sit back, on the place that I live at Unlike any place I been at The of big gats, deep dish hammer rim caps a mishap, push ya wig back Where you go to get the fresh at Four on the got the Timb rack Blue collars metro it Thugs mobbing it, form Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek sleek You get caught, the white horse and can't get off Big dogs that trick off just get off They stash is all they seeds gotta live off real yo but still yo, it's love 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 Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", they it Sitting on they stoop sipping Guinesses Using native dialect in sentences From the treeline to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local shop all around the world in great distances And ain't a place that I that bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, it's our that's uncalm "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White "coff guawinas" in they army jacket Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The goin wild This goes out to Crown and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Village Parkside caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My Flatbush posse, generals of it's time to form, just call me And let song 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 back It's where you the news tool crew cameras at It's my fam is at, summertime jam is at They play Big and get you like a sandal back Hotter than wax, hustling you can't relax The crack trying to find where they mama's at It's off the black, wit big police scandals that Turn into actions screenplays sold to The type of where they check your appearance at And cats who where all the hot 'lo gear is at The stomping grounds, you find a pound, smoke is that Be blazing charm that 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 notice that it's over, Brooklyn on taking it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it like the local tax The place I sharpen up my baritone at Where one of the MC's was a local cat