Hey hey, ha ha say say what Ha ha it yo Sometimes I feel like I don't have a I feel like my only friend Is the city I live in, is beautiful Long as I live here believe I'm on hey Cuz the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the where I stay The Best in the and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the where I stay The Place I rest is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and reflect Watch the go by and my thought connect I think about the time past and the time to Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and I to try and come, to the neighborhood function 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 gotta team my I must proceed at God's speed to 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 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 I touch back the streets like a sweet and get beat like drum 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 that thump 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 where she sons at Tryin to hunt that, recurring of high stakes The fourth largest, artist, Brooklyn is the place Settled by the many years ago Three billion and here we go
GOOD VIETNAM!!! Ha (back up back up back up back up up) [repeated in background] Yo I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at any place I ever been at The of big gats, deep 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 Blue collars metro it Thugs mobbin it, form Increase armorment, street Deep consequence, when you sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the white and can't get off Big dogs trick off just get sent off shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta live off It's yo but still yo, it's love here And it's felt by that come here Out of take the train, plane and bus here be something that they really want here One year as a resident, sentiment Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", they it Sittin on they front sippin Guinesses Usin dialect in they sentences the treeline blocks to the tenaments To the Mom & Pop local menaces Travel all around the world in distances And ain't a that I know that bear resemblance why we it The Planet Not a borough or a prov, it's our that's uncalm From ?sun? to the ? to the Lafayette ?coff guawinas? in they army jacket linings Yo goes out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The goin wild This goes out to Heights and Smurv Village The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Brown's tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties The out in Starite City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My Flatbush posse, generals of When time to form, just call me And let this be, playin 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 Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they back It's where you find the news tool crew at where my fam is at, summertime jame is at They play Big and get you open like a sandal Hotter than candle wax, hustlin you can't The crack babies to find where they mama's at off the handle black, wit big police scandals that Turn actions screenplays sold to Miramax The of place where they check your appearance at And cats who know where all the hot 'lo is at The stompin grounds, where you a pound, smoke is that Be blazin charm that your wave cap floatin back The doorstep the disposessed posted at Dope out at Franklin Ave sellin zovarax You big better keep your money folded back Cuz once the guns notice that it's over, black keep on takin it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it like the local tax The place I up my baritone vocals at one of the greatest MC's was a local cat