Yasiin Bey - Brooklyn In My Mind lyrics

Brooklyn! [Verse 1: Mos Def] Ready, ready for action Intimate swift like a cash transaction Speaker blow out from row house to the mansion This ghetto sound crowd right arousal of pa**ion They don't know the language, but shouting the anthem The beat translated make the world understand some My voice like magic, my flow fantastic In summary I'm rare, ordinary, elaborate Now check the profile this is lyrically handsome Resemble my pay scale, slim n***a ain't frail And I ain't in the gym on some Ebony man sh** I'm in the laboratory bench pressing the standard It's your hand, I'm raising the bar Right home in the ?, Get closer to God, stay focused and sharp High stake and there's way more than paper involved You must evolve or die, that ain't falsified Home team I know you keep trouble on your mind But don't let bullsh** knock you off your grind That's real talk for all of mine And for all of yours Rocksteady keep about your cause Low-key, cool breeze, and I'm about my balls It's tap-tap, knock down your door Tap-tap and break down the wall Collect and count it all And like bang in the air I'm gone Yes I'm riding on, keep cool, you can ride along But keep it up, you won't ride for long That's word to bond, show me where you are BK we the brightest star, let's get involved [Hook] [Verse 2: Jean Grae] This is history twice, first girl on a Crooklyn series Spent ninth First one, just clearly Brooklyn in the mind Not Brooklyn I was born, but in Brooklyn I was formed Not Brooklyn I was raised, but Brooklyn I was taught to form a young woman Dawn on my first love, first love is back Thirst to rap at 307 Clinton, nurse that First crib out of Manhattan Young, broke, man Back in the days the G train jam packing On the stoop year round forty in hand Kum Kau Chicken and Broc on Myrtle Ave Say word to Brooklyn, act words so that Brooklyn's back Like the track's fixed on the L train on the weekday Black bent on the metrocard that's how we pay ? spilling it backwards like my man D first spilt in the bathroom Man Brooklyn gave me confidence Fulton Brooklyn boys with them with them compliments When my mind slipped Brooklyn gave me consciousness Accomplice Clinton Hill's Bushwick So I still just Walk the BK swag and rep two boroughs Say she's so bad buts been too thorough Neck tatted and sweat blood for NY Medina, Mecca, n***as heads high Brooklyn stand up, come on [Hook] [Verse 3: Memphis Bleek] What we be doing the most It's diverse you now rocking with Memph, Jean and Mos And this verse it ain't where you from it's where you at The body off to travel, the mind ahead of that That's why I'm both albums deep none of which been printed Cause I ain't got a script what, a n***a really living Cause I ain't on the fabricating or imagine Brooklyn ain't a dream, them boys really be clapping So I'll never greet you with peace, cause they'll never be peace I tell you stay down to stay off the street Bed-Stuy, what's up Crown Heights, what's up Flatbush, Brownsville, what's up It's all love where I come from The keep it real sh** I used to cut school on the block Big come from But in the stu to try to come with flow At 15 I spit something that impress Hov and here I go