Brooklyn lyrics

Artist  : Mos Def 
Song : Brooklyn



 Send "Brooklyn" Ringtone to your Cell 

  *part one*

[Mos Def]
Hey hey, ha ha say what say what
Ha ha bust it yo
Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner
Sometimes I feel like my only friend
Is the city I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn
Long as I live here believe I'm on fire hey
Cuz it's the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K
L-Y-N is the place where I stay
The B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K
Best in the world and all USA
It's the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K
L-Y-N is the place where I stay
The B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K
Place where I rest is on my born day
Bust it, sometimes I sit back and just reflect
Watch the world go by and my thought connect
I think about the time past and the time to come
Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and young
I used to try and come, to the neighborhood
function
Throw on my Izod, say a little something
When I was just a youngin, before the days of
thuggin
How me and Charlie Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm only
buggin
Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my seed
I must proceed at God's speed to perform my deed
Livin the now space and time, round the nine to
five
For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to strive
I ain't sittin roadside, that ain't harder to
plan
I'm out here for my fam doin all that I can
I love my city, sweet and gritty in land to
outskirts
Nickname Bucktown cuz we grown to outburst
Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I touch back
Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like
drum tracks
Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust
back
Bring the marty to your face wit no place to run
back
I'm from the slums that created the bass that
thump back
This ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and
jump back
What you want, Jack? Young cats stash they jums
at
Draw they guns back, momma screams where she sons
at
Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of high
stakes
The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the
place
Settled by the judge many years ago
Three billion strong and here we go

*part two*

[Mos Def]
GOOD MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM!!!
Ha (back up back up back up back up back
up)*repeated in background*
Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place
that I live at
Unlike any place I ever been at
The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim caps
Have a mishap, push ya wig back
Where you go to get the fresh trim at
Four on the jake got the Timb rack
Blue collars metro carding it
Thugs mobbin it, form partnership 
Increase armorment, street pharmacist
Deep consequence, when you seek sleek ornaments
You get caught, rode the white horse and can't
get off
Big dogs that trick off just get sent off
 
They shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta live
off
It's real yo but still yo, it's love here
And it's felt by anybody that come here
Out of towners take the train, plane and bus here
Must be something that they really want here
One year as a resident, deeper sentiment
Shoutout 'Go Brooklyn!', they representin it
Sittin on they front stoop sippin Guinesses
Usin native dialect in they sentences
>From the treeline blocks to the tenaments
To the Mom & Pop local shop menaces
Travel all around the world in great distances
And ain't a place that I know that bear
resemblance
That's why we it The Planet
Not a borough or a prov, it's our style that's
uncalm
>From ?sun? to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens
White ?coff guawinas? in they army jacket linings
Yo this goes out to my cats in Coney Isle
Friday night out in front The Himalaya goin wild
This goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village
The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? Brown's
Village
Parkside tennants caught, thirties, forties, and
the fifties
The cats out in Starite City gettin busy
To the Hook, to the East, to the Stuy
Bushwick and Kanarcy, Farraget, Fullgreen, and
Marcy
My Flatbush posse, generals of armies
When it's time to form, just call me
And let this song be, playin loud in Long B
If you love Bucktown STRONGLY!
RAISE IT UP!

*part three*

[Mos Def]
Brooklyn my habitat, the place where it happen at
Live sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe
Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer
back
It's where you find the news tool crew cameras at
It's where my fam is at, summertime jame is at
They play Big and get you open like a sandal back
Hotter than candle wax, hustlin you can't relax
The crack babies tryin to find where they mama's
at
It's off the handle black, wit big police
scandals that
Turn into actions screenplays sold to Miramax
The type of place where they check your
appearance at
And cats who know where all the high low gear is
at
The stompin grounds, where you find a pound,
smoke is that
Be blazin charm that have your wave cap floatin
back
The doorstep where the disposessed posted at
Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin zovarax
You big ballin better keep your money folded back
Cuz once the young guns notice that it's over,
black
Brooklyn keep on takin it, worldwide we known for
that
Flossy cats get it snatched like the local tax
The place I sharpen up my baritone vocals at 
Where one of the greatest MC's was a local cat