Hey hey, ha ha say what say 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 here believe I'm on fire hey Cause the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place I stay The Best in the 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 Watch the go by and my thought connect I think about the past and the time to come Reminisce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and I to try and come, to the neighborhood function Throw on my Izod, say a little When I was just a younging, the days of thugging How me and Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only bugging Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my I must proceed at God's speed to perform my Livin the now and time, round 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 all that I can I love my city, sweet and in land to outskirts Nickname cause we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat drum tracks Catch no over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the to your face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the that thump back This ain't a game clown, play ya James and jump back What you want, Young cats stash they jums at Draw they guns back, momma screams where she at Tryin to hunt that, dream of high stakes The fourth largest, artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the judge many ago Three strong and here we go
Good Vietnam! Ha (back up back up back up up back up) Yo I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at any place I ever been at The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim Have a mishap, push ya wig Where you go to get the fresh at Four on the got the Timb rack collars metro carding it Thugs mobbing it, partnership Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, when you seek sleek You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big that trick off just get sent off They shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta off It's real yo but still yo, love here And felt by anybody that come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus Must be something that they really want One year as a resident, sentiment out "Go Brooklyn!", they representing it Sitting on they front stoop sipping Using native dialect in sentences the treeline blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all around the in great distances And ain't a place that I know that resemblance That's why we it The Not a borough or a prov, our style that's uncalm "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White "coff guawinas" in they army linings Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The Himalaya goin This out to Crown Heights 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 this song be, playing loud in B If you Bucktown strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at Live and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, draw they hammer back It's where you the news tool crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, jam is at They play Big and get you open like a sandal Hotter than candle wax, you can't relax The crack babies trying to find where they at off the handle black, wit big police scandals that Turn actions screenplays sold to Miramax The type of place where they your appearance at And cats who know where all the hot 'lo is at The stomping grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is Be blazing charm have your wave cap floating back The doorstep the dispossessed posted at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave selling You big better keep your money folded back Cause once the young guns that it's over, black Brooklyn on taking it, worldwide we known for that cats get it snatched like the local tax The place I up my baritone vocals at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat