I was born in Brooklyn in the eight month of the year 17th day somewhere near the Brooklyn Navy Pierre 17th Street Dog Day afternoons Under Brooklyn suns reflecting off Brooklyn moons Elevated platforms and transit for transportation Playing stoop ball and stick ball during lazy Summer vacation Ten cent ice and quarter drinks drying dishes by sinks Skating at roller rinks catching hypnotising winks Making me wonder in waves of lightning and thunder Free lunch in the summer PS 81 when I was younger Dipping to Knickerbocker Bushwick to see the doctor Brooklyn's been in the house before the words of Big Poppa A lot of neighborhoods in other boroughs like to talk In comparison they live in the suburbs next to East New York Take the L to Flatlands 2,3 to BK Heights The G to Greenpoint the 2,5 for Flatbush sights Prospects after Sunset taught me when and when not to run yet Explored Kings for years and I'm still not half done yet Hop on the Parkway go fishing at Sheepshead Bay Slide to Astroland Park complete the Brooklyn day B to the R to the Double OK L to Y and you know I don't play 4x Go Brooklyn, Go Brooklyn Go Brooklyn Go Brooklyn Not Queens not Manhattan not Bronx not Staten Go Brooklyn, Go Brooklyn Go Brooklyn Go Brooklyn Not Queens not Manhattan not Bronx not Staten Welcome to the County of Kings A city so diverse plus unusual things The biggest borough with an even bigger rep From freaks in Coney Island to stick up kids in Bushwick The place where LL got his radio jacked The place you hear the illest spitting in rap From the East River to the Atlantic Ocean King of the east no fronting or posing We don't wear crown we wear caps We don't wear tight jeans we wear slacks No tucked shirts not even to work We stay spaced out word to captain kirk We don't need to talk the talk we walk the walk There's no place like Brooklyn New York We don't need to talk the talk we walk the walk there's no place like Brooklyn New York We don't need to talk the talk we walk the walk There's no place like Brooklyn New York We don't need to talk the talk we walk the walk there's no place like Brooklyn New York< B to the R to the Double OK L to Y and you know I don't play 4x Go Brooklyn, Go Brooklyn Go Brooklyn Go Brooklyn Not Queens not Manhattan not Bronx not Staten Go Brooklyn, Go Brooklyn Go Brooklyn Go Brooklyn Not Queens not Manhattan not Bronx not Staten