Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I have a partner Sometimes I feel like my only Is the city I live in, is beautiful Long as I here believe I'm on fire hey Cuz it's the L-Y-N is the place I stay The in the world and all USA It's the is the place where I stay The where I rest is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and just Watch the go by and my thought connect I think about the past and the time to come Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and I used to try and come, to the neighborhood Throw on my Izod, say a little I was just a youngin, before the days of thuggin How me and Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin Fast forward, Nine-Now I team my seed I must at God's speed to perform my deed Livin the now and time, round the nine to five For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to I ain't sittin roadside, 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 grown to Philosophy redefine us, touch I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like 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 back This ain't a game clown, play ya Brown and jump back you want, Jack? Young cats stash they jums at Draw they guns back, momma screams where she at Tryin to hunt that, dream of high stakes The largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the place by the judge many years ago Three strong and here we go
MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up up back up back up) [repeated in background] Yo I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, deep hammer rim caps Have a mishap, push ya wig Where you go to get the trim at Four on the got the Timb rack Blue collars carding it Thugs mobbin it, form Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, when you seek ornaments You get caught, the white horse and can't get off Big that trick off just get sent off They shoebox is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, it's here And it's felt by that come here Out of towners take the train, and bus here Must be that they really want here One year as a resident, deeper "Go Brooklyn!", they representin it Sittin on they front stoop sippin Usin native dialect in they From the treeline blocks to the To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all around the world in great 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 ?sun? to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in army jacket linings Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday out in front The Himalaya goin wild This out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda Brown's 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, of armies When it's time to form, just me And let this song be, playin in Long B If you Bucktown STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is at, thugs draw they hammer back where you find the news tool crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, summertime is at play Big and get you open like a sandal back Hotter than candle wax, you can't relax The crack tryin to find where they mama's at off the handle black, wit big police scandals that Turn into actions screenplays to Miramax The type of place they check your appearance at And cats who know all the hot 'lo gear is at The stompin grounds, where you find a pound, is that Be blazin charm that have wave cap floatin back The doorstep where the posted at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin You big ballin better keep your money back Cuz once the guns notice that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it like the local tax The place I sharpen up my baritone at one of the greatest MC's was a local cat