Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't have a Sometimes I like my only friend Is the city I live in, is beautiful 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 Best in the and all USA the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place where I The Place I rest is on my born day Bust it, I sit back and just reflect Watch the 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 used to try and come, to the function Throw on my Izod, say a little When I was just a youngin, before the days of How me and Charlie (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin Fast forward, Nine-Now I team my seed I must proceed at 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 sittin roadside, that ain't harder to plan I'm out here for my fam all that I can I love my city, sweet and gritty in land to Nickname cuz we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I back Walk the streets a sweet and get beat like drum tracks no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to your face wit no to run back I'm from the slums that created the bass that thump ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young stash they jums at Draw guns back, momma screams where she sons at to hunt that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, is the place Settled by the judge years ago Three strong and here we go
GOOD VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up back up back up back up) in background] Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the 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 Timb Blue collars metro it Thugs mobbin it, partnership Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, when you seek ornaments You get caught, the white horse and can't get off Big dogs that trick off just get off They shoebox is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but yo, it's love here And felt by anybody that come here Out of towners take the train, plane and bus be something that they really want here One year as a resident, sentiment Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", they it Sittin on they front stoop sippin Usin native in they sentences From the treeline to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop shop menaces Travel all around the in great distances And ain't a place that I know that resemblance why we it The Planet Not a or a prov, it's our style that's uncalm From to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in army jacket linings Yo goes out to my cats in Coney Isle night out in front The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Crown and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Brown's tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My posse, generals of armies When it's time to form, just me And let this song be, playin in Long B If you love STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer where 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 to find where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big police that Turn into actions screenplays sold to The type of place they check your appearance at And cats who know where all the hot 'lo is at The stompin grounds, you find a pound, smoke is that Be blazin charm that have wave cap floatin back The doorstep the disposessed posted at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin You big ballin better your money folded back Cuz once the young notice that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on it, worldwide we known for that Flossy get it snatched like the local tax The place I sharpen up my vocals at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat