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