[Verse 1:] I said I was gonna do a song about Brooklyn So I'm not gonna do a song about Brooklyn It could be from Brooklyn without being from Vietnam Not every drug mule from the hood Have balls flying in their window tonight I love my neighborhood it's not all bad Everything was all good just a week ago And it's still just as good right now (My neighborhood) [Chorus:] You wish you could come into my neighborhood, neighborhood (in my neighborhood) [x4] [Verse 2:] Yo, I grew up on the fun side, the New York one side Stay in the love was quite easy Sunshine just like the dude on TV Running no rock tooth hair peezy Hyper lil' some b**h always is some other sh** A tree grew in Brooklyn, My house was in front of it Off the wall softball you don't want none of this Race down the block and let you know who's run this sh** [Chorus:] Where? In my neighborhood (In my neighborhood) You wish you could come into my neighborhood, neighborhood (in my neighborhood) [x4] [Verse 3:] You like to hear the story Again and again About the B to the K to the L Y N Not a talk about my rubble B though it would be obvious But I see less brooklyn dodgers and more cosby kids And i ain't livin ten-stick-wood ave put your ear to the window Still hear kids laugh cause the only time we hear sirens Is when the firemen turned off the hydrant But once they was gone AJ got the tool box and turned it Back on block parties kept going till the crack of dawn We ain't have a balcony up in mya's thing we made due With the view from the fire escape and on the fourth of july Yeah we light up the sky, but not with the gats all we need is a matchstick Hang up the milk crate, use it as a basket Red alert saturday night speakers blastin, where? [Chorus:] In my neighborhood (In my neighborhood) You wish you could come into my neighborhood, neighborhood (in my neighborhood) [x4] [Outro:] Now dominique's pop's drove an ice cream truck So my house was the first stop hows that for luck Bide my bike around the block with jermaine And his brothers while his uncles And his cousins played spades with his mother Then after dark sneak to taffy park and Start writin on the walls Where they play hand ball but little did the people Know the vandal was this little bro right underneath their nose playin Coco leave me yo?, catch me if you can was the object You never know i live two blocks from the projects I can't front man Them days were gone man Yall know where I'm going with this right J S-1 Let em know where we at