Hey hey, ha ha say what say Ha ha it yo I feel like I don't have a partner Sometimes I feel like my only Is the city I live in, is beautiful as I live here believe I'm on fire hey Cause it's the L-Y-N is the place where I The in the world and all USA It's the L-Y-N is the where I stay The where I rest is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and reflect Watch the world go by and my connect I think 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 function Throw on my Izod, say a something 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 proceed at God's speed to perform my deed 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 harder to I'm out here for my fam doing all I can I love my city, sweet and in land to outskirts Nickname Bucktown cause we to outburst Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I back Walk the like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back Bring the marty to face wit no place to run back I'm from the that created the bass that thump back This ain't a game clown, play ya James and jump back What you want, Jack? Young cats stash they at Draw guns back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, is the place Settled by the judge years ago Three billion strong and we go
Good Vietnam! Ha (back up back up back up up back up) Yo I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at Unlike any place I been 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 metro carding it mobbing it, form partnership Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, you seek sleek ornaments You get caught, the white horse and can't get off Big dogs that trick off get sent off They shoebox stash is all they gotta live off It's real yo but still yo, it's love And it's felt by anybody that here Out of towners take the train, and bus here Must be something that they really want One as a resident, deeper sentiment out "Go Brooklyn!", they representing it Sitting on they front stoop sipping Using dialect in they sentences From the blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop shop menaces all around 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 that's uncalm From "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette White "coff guawinas" in they army jacket Yo this goes out to my cats in Isle Friday night out in The Himalaya goin wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Village Parkside tenants caught, thirties, forties, and the The out in Starite City gettin busy To the Hook, to the East, to the Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and My Flatbush posse, of armies When time to form, just call me And let this song be, playing loud in B If you love strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place where it at Live sway and the balance of the battle axe is brandished 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 open a sandal back Hotter than candle wax, hustling you relax The crack trying to find where they mama's at It's off the handle black, wit big police scandals Turn into actions screenplays to Miramax The of place where they check your appearance at And cats who know all the hot 'lo gear is at The grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is that Be blazing charm that have your wave cap floating The doorstep where the dispossessed at Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave zovarax You big balling better keep your money folded Cause once the young guns notice that over, black Brooklyn keep on taking it, worldwide we for that Flossy cats get it snatched the local tax The place I sharpen up my baritone at Where one of the MC's was a local cat