Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I have a partner Sometimes I feel my only friend Is the I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn as I live here believe I'm on fire hey Cause 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 where I rest is on my 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 Reminisce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and I used to try and come, to the neighborhood Throw on my Izod, say a little When I was just a younging, the days of thugging How me and Charlie Chims (hey yo what?) I'm only forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my seed I must proceed at God's speed to perform my Livin the now and time, round the nine to five For as as I'm alive, paw I got to strive I ain't sitting roadside, that ain't to plan I'm out here for my fam all that I can I love my city, and gritty in land to outskirts Nickname Bucktown we grown to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I touch Walk the like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we back Bring the marty to your face wit no to run back I'm from the slums that the bass that thump back ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats stash they at Draw they back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of high The largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the many years ago billion strong and here we go
Good Vietnam! Ha (back up back up up back up back up) Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the that I live at Unlike any place I ever at The home of big gats, dish hammer rim caps Have a mishap, push ya wig you go to get the fresh trim at Four on the got the Timb rack collars metro carding it Thugs mobbing it, partnership armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, when you sleek ornaments You get caught, the white horse and can't get off Big dogs that trick off get sent off They shoebox is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but yo, it's love here And it's felt by that come here Out of towners the train, plane and bus here Must be something that they want here One year as a resident, deeper Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", representing it Sitting on they front stoop sipping Using native in they sentences the treeline blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local shop Travel all the world in great distances And ain't a place that I know bear resemblance That's why we it The Not a borough or a prov, it's our style that's "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White "coff guawinas" in army jacket linings Yo this 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" Village tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The cats out in Starite gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My Flatbush posse, of armies When time to form, just call me And let this be, playing loud in Long B If you love strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place where it at Live sway and the sharp balance of the axe Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they back where you find the news tool crew cameras at It's my fam is at, summertime jam is at They Big and get you open like a sandal back than candle wax, hustling you can't relax The crack trying to find where they mama's at off the handle black, wit big police scandals that Turn into actions sold to Miramax The of place where they check your appearance at And cats who know all the hot 'lo gear is at The stomping grounds, where you find a pound, is that Be blazing charm that have your wave cap back The doorstep where the dispossessed at fiends out at Franklin Ave selling zovarax You big balling better your money folded back Cause once the young notice that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on taking it, we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched like the tax The I sharpen up my baritone vocals at Where one of the MC's was a local cat