Mos Def - Brooklyn

[00:03.98] *Part one* [00:05.15] (Mos Def) [00:06.44] Hey hey, ha ha say what say what [00:08.40] Ha ha bust it yo [00:11.19] Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner [00:15.62] Sometimes I feel like my only friend [00:20.48] Is the city I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn [00:26.55] Long as I live here believe I'm on fire hey [00:31.52] Cuz it's the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K [00:34.41] L-Y-N is the place where I stay [00:37.02] The B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K [00:39.79] Best in the world and all USA [00:42.37] It's the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K [00:45.15] L-Y-N is the place where I stay [00:47.74] The B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K [00:50.51] Place where I rest is on my born day [00:53.15] Bust it, sometimes I sit back and just reflect [00:55.50] Watch the world go by and my thought connect [00:58.28] I think about the time past and the time to come [01:00.86] Reminesce on Bed-Stuy when I was pride and young [01:03.58] I used to try and come, to the neighborhood function [01:06.24] Throw on my Izod, say a little something [01:09.18] When I was just a youngin, before the days of thuggin [01:11.72] How me and Charlie Chims (aiyyo what?) I'm only buggin [01:14.45] Fast forward, Nine-Now I gotta team my seed [01:17.06] I must proceed at God's speed to perform my deed [01:19.41] Livin the now space and time, round the nine to five [01:22.35] For as long as I'm alive, paw I got to strive [01:24.95] I ain't sittin roadside, that ain't harder to plan [01:27.63] I'm out here for my fam doin all that I can [01:30.18] I love my city, sweet and gritty in land to outskirts [01:32.94] Nickname Bucktown cuz we prone to outburst [01:35.69] Philosophy redefine us, touch mines I touch back [01:38.22] Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks [01:40.84] Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back [01:43.48] Bring the marty to your face wit no place to run back [01:46.25] I'm from the slums that created the bass that thump back [01:48.93] This ain't a game clown, play ya James Brown and jump back [01:51.63] What you want, Jack? Young cats stash they jums at [01:54.38] Draw they guns back, momma screams where she sons at [01:56.85] Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of high stakes [01:59.45] The fourth largest, first hardest, Brooklyn is the place [02:02.17] Settled by the Dutch many years ago, [02:04.72] Three million strong, and here we go [02:08.11] *Part two* [02:09.11] (Mos Def) [02:12.94] GOOD MORNINNNNNNNNNGG VIETNAM! [02:20.36] Ha (back up back up back up back up back up)*repeated in background* [02:32.12] Yo sometimes I sit back, reflect on the place that I live at [02:34.52] Unlike any place I ever been at [02:36.63] The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim caps [02:39.61] Have a mishap, push ya wig back [02:41.57] Where you go to get the fresh trim at [02:43.82] Four on the jake got the Timb rack [02:45.63] Blue collars metro carding it [02:47.43] Thugs mobbin it, form partnership [02:49.28] Increase armorment, street pharmacist [02:50.85] Deep consequence, when you seek sleek ornaments [02:53.39] You get caught, rode the white horse and can't get off [02:55.74] Big dogs that trick off just get sent off [02:58.29] They shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta live off [03:00.67] It's real yo but still yo, it's love here [03:03.38] And it's felt by anybody that come here [03:05.68] Out of towners take the train, plane and bus here [03:08.20] Must be something that they really want here [03:10.73] One year as a resident, deeper sentiment [03:12.77] Shoutout "Go Brooklyn!", they representin it [03:15.06] Sittin on they front stoop sippin Guinesses [03:17.56] Usin native dialect in they sentences [03:20.11] >From the treeline blocks to the tenaments [03:22.54] To the Mom & Pop local shop menaces [03:24.82] Travel all around the world in great distances [03:27.47] And ain't a place that I know that bear resemblance [03:29.61] That's why we it The Planet [03:32.15] Not a borough or a province, it's our style that's uncommon [03:34.58] >From? sun? to the? to the Lafayette Gardens [03:36.73] Wycoff, Gowanus in they army jacket linings [03:39.39] Yo this goes out to my cats in Coney Isle [03:41.95] Friday night out in front The Himalaya goin wild [03:44.06] This goes out to Crown Heights and Smurv Village [03:46.51] The nighties, and all my? yarda trenny? Brown's Village [03:48.88] Parkside tennis court, thirties, forties, and the fifties [03:51.27] The cats out in Starrett City gettin busy [03:53.79] To the Hook, to the East, to the Stuy [03:55.51] Bushwick and Canarsie, Farragut, Fort Green, and Marcy [03:58.40] My Flatbush posse, generals of armies [04:01.32] When it's time to form, just call me [04:03.69] And let this song be, playin loud in Long B [04:06.66] If you love Bucktown STRONGLY! [04:09.32] RAISE IT UP! [04:11.93] *Part three* [04:12.95] (Mos Def) [04:13.50] Brooklyn my habitat, the place where it happen at [04:15.51] Live sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe [04:18.44] Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer back [04:20.90] It's where you find the News 2 crew cameras at [04:23.45] It's where my fam is at, summertime jam is at [04:26.12] They play Big and get you open like a sandal back [04:28.67] Hotter than candle wax, hustlin you can't relax [04:31.31] The crack babies tryin to find where they mamma's at [04:33.93] It's off the handle black, wit big police scandals that [04:36.42] Turn into actions screenplays sold to Miramax [04:39.03] The type of place where they check your appearance at [04:41.41] And cats who know where all the hot 'lo gear is at [04:44.24] The stompin grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is that [04:46.68] Be blazin charm that have your wave cap floatin back [04:49.20] The doorstep where the disposessed posted at [04:51.88] Dope fiends out at Franklin Ave sellin zovarax [04:54.78] You big ballin better keep your money folded back [04:57.05] Cuz once the young guns notice that it's over, black [04:59.74] Brooklyn keep on takin it, worldwide we known for that [05:02.19] Flossy cats get it snatched like the local tax [05:04.74] The place I sharpen up my baritone vocals at [05:07.21] Where one of the greatest MC's was a local cat [05:08.60]