Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I have a partner Sometimes I feel like my friend Is the city I live in, is beautiful as I live 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 is the place where I stay The Place I rest is on my born day it, sometimes I sit back and just reflect Watch the world go by and my connect I think about the time past and the time to Reminisce on when I was pride and young 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 bugging Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my I must at God's speed to perform my deed Livin the now space and time, round the nine to 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 doing all I can I love my city, and gritty in land to outskirts Nickname Bucktown cause we to outburst Philosophy us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets a sweet and get beat like drum tracks Catch no shakes jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back the marty to your face wit no place to run back I'm from the slums that created the bass thump back ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back What you want, Young cats stash they jums at Draw they guns back, screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, is the place by the judge many years ago Three billion and here we go
morning Vietnam! Ha (back up back up up back up back up) Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place I live at Unlike any I ever been at The home of big gats, deep dish 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 carding it Thugs mobbing it, partnership armorment, street pharmacist Deep consequence, when you seek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big dogs that trick off get sent off They stash is all they seeds gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, love here And it's felt by that come here Out of take the train, plane and bus here Must be something that they really here One year as a resident, deeper Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", representing it Sitting on they stoop sipping Guinesses Using native in they 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 or a prov, it's our style that's uncalm From "sun" to the ? to the Gardens White "coff guawinas" in they army jacket Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The Himalaya goin This goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Village tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The out in Starite City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My Flatbush posse, of armies it's time to form, just call me And let song be, playing loud 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 at, thugs draw they hammer back It's where you find the news tool cameras at where my fam is at, summertime jam is at They play Big and get you like a sandal back Hotter than candle wax, hustling you relax The crack babies trying to find they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big scandals that Turn into screenplays sold to Miramax The type of place where they check your 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 have your wave cap floating The doorstep the dispossessed posted at Dope out at Franklin Ave selling zovarax You big balling keep your money folded back Cause once the young guns notice it's over, black Brooklyn keep on taking it, we known for that Flossy get it snatched like the local tax The place I sharpen up my baritone at Where one of the greatest MC's was a cat