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 Long as I live here I'm on fire hey Cause the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the place where I The Best in the and all USA the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K L-Y-N is the where I stay The Place where I is on my born day Bust it, sometimes I sit back and just Watch the world go by and my thought I about the time past and the time to come on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and young I to try and come, to the neighborhood function Throw on my Izod, say a something When I was a younging, before 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 proceed at God's to perform my deed Livin the now space and time, the nine to five For as as I'm alive, paw I got to strive I ain't sitting roadside, ain't harder to plan I'm out here for my fam doing all I can I love my city, sweet and in land to outskirts Bucktown cause we grown to outburst Philosophy us, touch mines I touch back Walk the streets like a and get beat 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 the slums that created the bass that thump back This ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and back What you want, Jack? Young cats stash they at Draw they back, momma screams where she sons at Tryin to that, recurring dream of high stakes The fourth largest, first artist, is the place by the judge many years ago Three strong and here we go
Good Vietnam! Ha (back up up back up back up back up) Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the that I live at any place I ever been at The home of big gats, deep hammer rim caps Have a mishap, ya wig back Where you go to get the fresh at on the Jake got the Timb rack Blue metro carding it Thugs mobbing it, partnership Increase armorment, pharmacist Deep consequence, when you sleek ornaments You get caught, rode the horse and can't get off Big that trick off just get sent off They shoebox stash is all they gotta live off It's yo but still yo, it's love here And it's felt by anybody come here Out of take the train, plane and bus here Must be something that they really want One as a resident, deeper sentiment Shout out "Go Brooklyn!", representing it Sitting on they stoop sipping Guinesses Using native in they sentences From the blocks to the tenements To the Mom & Pop local menaces all around the world in great distances And ain't a that I know that bear resemblance That's why we it The Not a borough or a prov, it's our style uncalm "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens White "coff guawinas" in army jacket linings Yo this out to my cats in Coney Isle Friday night out in front The goin wild This goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv The nighties, and all my "yarda trenny" Brown's tenants 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 posse, generals of armies When it's time to form, just me And let this be, playing loud in Long B If you Bucktown strongly! it up!
Brooklyn my habitat, the place it happen at Live and the sharp balance of the battle axe Irons is brandished at, thugs they hammer back It's you find the news tool crew cameras at It's where my fam is at, jam is at They play Big and get you open like a back than candle wax, hustling you can't relax The crack babies trying to find where they at It's off the handle black, wit big police that Turn into actions screenplays sold to The type of place where they 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 posted at Dope fiends out at Ave selling zovarax You big balling better keep your money back Cause once the guns notice that it's over, black Brooklyn keep on it, worldwide we known for that Flossy cats get it snatched the local tax The place I up my baritone vocals at one of the greatest MC's was a local cat