Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I touch back
I'm out here for my fam doin all that I can
Turn into actions screenplays sold to Miramax
Is the city I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn
This goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village
Bring the marty to your face wit no place to run back
White ?coff guawinas? in they army jacket linings
The B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K
They shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta live off
When I was just a youngin, before the days of thuggin
Nickname Bucktown 'cause we grown to outburst
Must be something that they really want here
One year as a resident, deeper sentiment
'Cause once the young guns notice that it's over, black
RAISE IT UP
The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the place
Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of high stakes
That's why we it The Planet
Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my seed
For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to strive
It's off the handle black, wit big police scandals that
How me and Charlie Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin
Throw on my Izod, say a little something
The cats out in Starite City gettin busy
And ain't a place that I know that bear resemblance
To the Mom and Pop local shop menaces
Where you go to get the fresh trim at
Hotter than candle wax, hustlin you can't relax
You big ballin better keep your money folded back
And it's felt by anybody that come here
Watch the world go by and my thought connect
Parkside tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties
Place where I rest is on my born day
I think about the time past and the time to come
To the Hook, to the East, to the Stuy
The doorstep where the disposessed posted at
GOOD MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM
Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and Marcy
Yo this goes out to my cats in Coney Isle
Bust it, sometimes I sit back and just reflect
The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Brown's Village
Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back
'Cause it's the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K
Unlike any place I ever been at
I ain't sittin roadside, that ain't harder to plan
Three billion strong and here we go
When it's time to form, just call me
Usin native dialect in they sentences
They play Big and get you open like a sandal back
From the treeline blocks to the tenaments
Travel all around the world in great distances
Deep consequence, when you seek sleek ornaments
I used to try and come, to the neighborhood function
Best in the world and all USA
Four on the jake got the Timb rack
Brooklyn my habitat, the place where it happen at
You get caught, rode the white horse and can't get off
Not a borough or a prov, it's our style that's uncalm
Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks
And let this song be, playin loud in Long B
I must proceed at God's speed to perform my deed
The place I sharpen up my baritone vocals at
Flossy cats get it snatched like the local tax
This ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back
Blue collars metro carding it
It's real yo but still yo, it's love here
What you want, Jack? Young cats stash they jums at
Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer back
My Flatbush posse, generals of armies
The B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K
Friday night out in front The Himalaya goin wild
The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim caps
Shoutout 'Go Brooklyn!', they representin it
Be blazin charm that have your wave cap floatin back
Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin zovarax
I'm from the slums that created the bass that thump back
Out of towners take the train, plane and bus here
Draw they guns back, momma screams where she sons at
Livin the now space and time, round the nine to five
It's where my fam is at, summertime jame is at
Settled by the judge many years ago
Long as I live here believe I'm on fire hey
And cats who know where all the high low gear is at
Ha (back up back up back up back up back up)*repeated in background*
The type of place where they check your appearance at
Thugs mobbin it, form partnership
Brooklyn keep on takin it, worldwide we known for that
The stompin grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is that
From ?sun? to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens
The crack babies tryin to find where they mama's at
Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and young
Live sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe
If you love Bucktown STRONGLY
It's where you find the news tool crew cameras at
L-Y-N is the place where I stay
L-Y-N is the place where I stay
Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at
It's the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K
Increase armorment, street pharmacist
Big dogs that trick off just get sent off
I love my city, sweet and gritty in land to outskirts
Have a mishap, push ya wig back
Sittin on they front stoop sippin Guinesses
