*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 stas