(Ladybug) Space I got round to Acted when I fee it In how I see it You be it if you be it Started out in crooklyn ... bu*ters word (bu*terfly) Chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill Hold up Aww sh**, oh sh** Guy look who that is Look who rolled up in this piece (Guru) Peace y'all (bu*terfly) Word up, brooklyn everyday Hey yo yo, lets do that brooklyn sh** It's the day (Guru) Yeah we gonna da that sh** We gonna give it to them in style right? Yeah yeah (bu*terfly) China, who we rock one for Who we rock one for Crooklyn everday (Guru) Brooklyn is up in here (Ladybug & bu*terrfly) Uhh, block party, corner store The downtown, the projects Barber shops My clique is so tight The mix tapes, yeah, forever (bu*terfly) Yo word Yo one fro the trouble Two for the time Three fro the rumble Four for the rhyme Do that crooklyn sh** style all the time (Guru) Yeah yeah, what Who want it yeah yeah kid (bu*terfly) One, two uh (All) Brooklyn, Brooklyn, big borough with teeth But everything in Brooklyn ain't always what it seems You might get hurt if you come from out of town But down by lord that's word (bu*terfly) Fantastic (Ladybug) Show stoppin emcees (Guru) Yeah here streets is move by Glocks in whos pocket (Ladybug) But if you're down come around check the super rhyme (bu*terfly) We don't drop dimes (Ladybug) Come and have a funky time (bu*terfly) Well it's the 718 and everything is straight ... (All) We live in Brooklyn (bu*terfly) With the type street curb hangers and the beat don't Shtop (All) We live in Brooklyn (Doodlebug) It's no lie, do or die in the land of show and prove (All) We live in Brooklyn (Ladybug) Well Keith, Cee-Know, my fist and bu*ter's 'fro (All) We live in Brooklyn (Guru) The fly clothes, cash flow, and crazy L's to spark (Ladybug) It's crowded plus they jerkin my space Shouted cause they chase when I strut out Sift through my block I'm c-cool She's my mood to brace Stole my mind back black So what you play the boards Skimmer we got bu*ter so surfaces out Clever, and I fix it for you, funk time is monk time Slackers hit the bat, blackest fit my pack And we for whatever We get down in this pleasure heavy And we are measured by the tens degrees of math In a puzzle hand locked, clocked in struggle Can't keep the three foot three above mec In so depth I defect (Ladybug & Doodlebug) With my vanguard squad the gods in brooklyn (Doodlebug) And we troopin throught the Fulton forkways The eastern parkways I'm broader than broadway, nothing more than morays I sways, why cause I'm a Brooklyn stroller No ones cooler, pigs on my boulder So I switch my pitch as I stretch down Atlantic Strictly slickly with my fork mean tactic In fact it's really on the daily Kids with guns and herbs look for herbs Now I think you feel me I freaks it, cause yo like my pimp stroll is cool When I creeps up the sweet and jeeps blast Tools rule the area, yo these fool don't play I got the comrades of love, so the g stays Brooklyn side with the crooklyn slide (All) We live in Brooklyn (Ladybug) Out on Fulton ave. where the honeys be at (All) We live in Brooklyn (Guru) Type slick, keep it movin when it's after dark (All) We live in Brooklyn (bu*terfly) Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh (Doodlebug) No lies, do or die in the land of show and prove (Guru) The place where I dwell is where the warriors dwell Too many stories to tell So on the block we don't talk Stack of loot takin propers Might get a serious offer from a corrupt a** copper So um, stop the nonsense Brooklyn is the illest, the realest Observe these words as I reveal this Man my peoples out here they get down for this Each one's a one man gang with a crown for this Man burners to handle any business And mad sneaky ways so ain't leavin any witness Got way more drama the theatrical lessons So my suggestion, you come correct no question Cause if you comin with that funny hot dog style You might get looted, executed black mob style From east new york back to ft. green Brooklyns' cla**ic mystical magic scene (bu*terfly) We are plush like a million bucks Down every ave for like a zillion blocks Blowin out With my nappy hoods down Fulton Bless and guess style limpin past the Walt Whitman Steelo's changed on the corners we hang The crime stoppers get mad with poppers and tens And my scrambles ample kid, no part timin, just rhymin In other words, I play these curbs, with j u ice When they say you nice, I say son a little somethin Brooklyn's asphalt rolls like a syl keith rodeo We bump the big sound, down and gritty Record and mic checkin, no question, this section of New york city Where the crooks lounge out, block powers found bu*terfly ground the sky favorite package of pound It's like th-that, the beats know we be strappin em out Mad moneys wish they g like us, clout When I'm in the boogie I'm imported, I study chairman Mao Ain't nothin but crooklyn in my plasma now I got my g's behind the tongue of my gold high cla**ics I'm all city when I'm dipped, if you want us you can find us (aw sh**) (All) We live in brooklyn (Doodlebug) Coney island's buck whiling and we b-boy stylin (All) We live in Brooklyn (bu*terfly) Yeah, on the spot we hustle cause like th-that (Guru) Mad game, takin wins, the sh** is real son (All) We live in Brooklyn (Ladybug) With my girls and marissa now you're up in Cambridge (bu*terfly & Ladybug) Fly sh** And every spot we hit is gettin blown That's just how we do it baby Out here in Brooklyn baby Slick move Cause can't nothin stop up but us So we gettin ours baby Nothin but Brooklyn baby (bu*terfly) Ft. Green, The Sty, Queensburg, Coney I (All) It's like that, it's fat where we be at, Brooklyn (bu*terfly) Red Hook, Crown Heights, it's tight (All) It's like that, it's fat where we be at, Brooklyn (bu*terfly) Bushes, wigs, flat, it's east New York, Brownsville (All) It's like that, it's fat where we be at, Brooklyn (bu*terfly) Sights, everywhere, Brooklyn style everywhere (All) It's like that, it's fat where we be at, Brooklyn (bu*terfly) Brooklyn style (Scratching) Y'all the hippest people in the world