Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't have a Sometimes I feel like my friend Is the I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn Long as I live believe I'm on fire hey Cuz it's the L-Y-N is the place where I The Best in the and all USA It's the is the place where I stay The Place where I is on my born day it, sometimes 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 Bed-Stuy 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 of thuggin How me and Charlie Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm buggin Fast forward, Nine-Now I team my seed I proceed at God's speed to perform my deed Livin the now space and time, round the to five For as as I'm alive, paw I got to strive I ain't sittin roadside, that ain't harder to I'm out here for my fam doin all I can I love my city, sweet and gritty in to outskirts Bucktown cuz we grown to outburst Philosophy us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets like a sweet and get like drum tracks Catch no over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to your face wit no place to run I'm from the slums created 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 guns back, screams where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, dream of high stakes The largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the place by the judge many years ago Three billion and here we go
MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up up back up back up) [repeated in background] Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place that I at Unlike any I ever been at The of big gats, deep dish hammer rim caps Have a mishap, push ya wig Where you go to get the fresh at Four on the got the Timb rack Blue collars metro it mobbin it, form partnership Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, when you seek ornaments You get caught, rode the white horse and get off Big dogs that trick off get sent off They stash is all they seeds gotta live off It's yo but still yo, it's love here And felt by anybody that come here Out of take the train, plane and bus here be something that they really want here One as a resident, deeper sentiment Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", representin it Sittin on they front stoop Guinesses native dialect in they sentences From the blocks to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all around the world in great And ain't a place I know that bear resemblance That's why we it The Not a borough or a prov, our style that's uncalm From ?sun? to the ? to the Gardens White ?coff guawinas? in they jacket linings Yo this goes out to my 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 trenny? Village Parkside tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the The cats out in Starite City gettin To the Hook, to the East, to the and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy My Flatbush posse, of armies When it's time to form, call me And let this song be, loud in Long B If you love STRONGLY! IT UP!
Brooklyn my habitat, the where it happen at Live sway and the sharp balance of the axe is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer back It's where you find the news tool crew at It's where my fam is at, jame is at They Big and get you open like a sandal back Hotter than candle wax, you can't relax The crack babies tryin to find where they at off the handle black, wit big police scandals that Turn into actions sold to Miramax The type of place where they check your at And cats who know where all the hot 'lo is at The stompin grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is Be blazin charm that have your wave cap floatin The doorstep where the posted at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave zovarax You big ballin better keep money folded back Cuz once the young guns notice it's over, black Brooklyn on takin it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched like the tax The I sharpen up my baritone vocals at Where one of the greatest was a local cat