Brooklyn - Mos Def.mp3

[00:00.00]*part one*
[00:02.16][mos def]
[00:02.43]Hey hey, ha ha say what say what
[00:07.77]Ha ha bust it yo
[00:11.04]Sometimes i feel like i don't have a partner
[00:16.32]Sometimes i feel like my only friend
[00:20.79]Is the city i live in, is beautiful brooklyn
[00:26.76]Long as i live here believe i'm on fire hey
[00:31.59]Cuz it's the b- the-r-the-o-the-o-k
[00:34.80]L-y- n is the place where i stay
[00:37.26]The b-the-r-the-o-the-o-k
[00:40.08]Best in the world and all usa
[00:42.48]It's the b-to-the-r-the-o-the- o-k
[00:45.48]L-y- n is the place where i stay
[00:47.91]The b-to-the- r-the-o-the-o-k
[00:50.73]Place where i rest is on my born day
[00:53.04]Bust it, sometimes i sit back and just reflect
[00:55.80]Watch the world go by and my thought connect
[00:58.32]I think about the time past and the time to come
[01:01.08]Reminesce on bed-stuy when i was pride and young
[01:03.69]I used to try and come, to the neighborhood function
[01:06.75]Throw on my izod, say a little something
[01:09.27]When i was just a youngin, before the days of thuggin
[01:11.94]How me and charlie chims (aiyyo what?) i'm only buggin
[01:14.43]Fast forward, nine-now i gotta team my seed
[01:16.98]I must proceed at god's speed to perform my deed
[01:19.56]Livin the now space and time, round the nine to five
[01:22.41]For as long as i'm alive, paw i got to strive
[01:25.02]I ain't sittin roadside, that ain't harder to plan
[01:27.66]I'm out here for my fam doin all that i can
[01:30.24]I love my city, sweet and gritty in land to outskirts
[01:33.12]Nickname bucktown cuz we grown to outburst
[01:35.67]Philosophy redefine us, touch mines i touch back
[01:38.43]Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks
[01:41.07]Catch no shakes over jakes (boomp-boomp!) we bust back
[01:43.71]Bring the marty to your face wit no place to run back
[01:46.26]I'm from the slums that created the bass that thump back
[01:48.96]This ain't a game clown, play ya james brown and jump back
[01:51.72]What you want, jack? young cats stash they jums at
[01:54.36]Draw they guns back, momma screams where she sons at
[01:56.97]Tryin to hunt that, recurring dream of high stakes
[01:59.61]The fourth largest, first artist, brooklyn is the place
[02:02.67]Settled by the judge many years ago
[02:05.01]Three billion strong and here we go
[02:08.07]*part two*
[02:09.69][mos def]
[02:13.29]Good morninnnnnnnnngg vietnam!!!
[02:21.36]Ha (back up back up back up back up back up)*repeated in background*
[02:30.96]Yo sometimes i sit back, reflect on the place that i live at
[02:34.86]Unlike any place i ever been at
[02:36.90]The home of big gats, deep dish hammer rim caps
[02:39.87]Have a mishap, push ya wig back
[02:41.88]Where you go to get the fresh trim at
[02:43.71]Four on the jake got the timb rack
[02:45.51]Blue collars metro carding it
[02:47.34]Thugs mobbin it, form partnership
[02:49.14]Increase armorment, street pharmacist
[02:51.03]Deep consequence, when you seek sleek ornaments
[02:53.58]You get caught, rode the white horse and can't get off
[02:56.10]Big dogs that trick off just get sent off
[02:58.35]They shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta live off
[03:01.02]It's real yo but still yo, it's love here
[03:03.63]And it's felt by anybody that come here
[03:06.03]Out of towners take the train, plane and bus here
[03:08.40]Must be something that they really want here
[03:10.56]One year as a resident, deeper sentiment
[03:12.99]Shoutout "go brooklyn!", they representin it
[03:15.54]Sittin on they front stoop sippin guinesses
[03:18.12]Usin native dialect in they sentences
[03:20.37]> from the treeline blocks to the tenaments
[03:22.89]To the mom & pop local shop menaces
[03:25.32]Travel all around the world in great distances
[03:27.66]And ain't a place that i know that bear resemblance
[03:30.57]That's why we it the planet
[03:31.98]Not a borough or a prov, it's our style that's uncalm
[03:34.44]>from ?sun? to the ? to the lafayette gardens
[03:37.11]White ?coff guawinas? in they army jacket linings
[03:39.27]Yo this goes out to my cats in coney isle
[03:41.61]Friday night out in front the himalaya goin wild
[03:44.31]This goes out to crown heights and smurv village
[03:46.62]The nighties, and all my ?yarda trenny? brown's village
[03:48.93]Parkside tennants caught, thirties, forties, and the fifties
[03:51.42]The cats out in starite city gettin busy
[03:53.70]To the hook, to the east, to the stuy
[03:55.59]Bushwick and kanarcy, farraget, fullgreen, and marcy
[03:59.22]My flatbush posse, generals of armies
[04:01.83]When it's time to form, just call me
[04:04.14]And let this song be, playin loud in long b
[04:06.72]If you love bucktown strongly!
[04:09.90]Raise it up!
[04:10.68]*part three*
[04:11.01][mos def]
[04:13.32]Brooklyn my habitat, the place where it happen at
[04:15.96]Live sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe
[04:18.51]Irons is brandished at, thugs draw they hammer back
[04:21.18]It's where you find the news tool crew cameras at
[04:23.73]It's where my fam is at, summertime jame is at
[04:26.31]They play big and get you open like a sandal back
[04:28.83]Hotter than candle wax, hustlin you can't relax
[04:31.44]The crack babies tryin to find where they mama's at
[04:34.05]It's off the handle black, wit big police scandals that
[04:36.60]Turn into actions screenplays sold to miramax
[04:39.12]The type of place where they check your appearance at
[04:41.76]And cats who know where all the high low gear is at
[04:44.22]The stompin grounds, where you find a pound, smoke is that
[04:46.86]Be blazin charm that have your wave cap floatin back
[04:49.47]The doorstep where the disposessed posted at
[04:51.90]**** fiends out at franklin ave sellin zovarax
[04:54.72]You big ballin better keep your money folded back
[04:57.18]Cuz once the young guns notice that it's over, black
[04:59.61]Brooklyn keep on takin it, worldwide we known for that
[05:02.49]Flossy cats get it snatched like the local tax
[05:04.98]The place i sharpen up my baritone vocals at
[05:07.29]Where one of the greatest mc's was a local cat