Marcy Me

Ya

Live from Bedford Stuyvesant

The livest one, representing BK to the fullest

Bastard duckin' when Hov be buckin'

Chicken heads be cluckin'

Uh

Back when ratchet was a ratchet and a vixen was a vixen

And Jam Master Jay was alive, I-I-I was mixin'

Cooking coke in the kitchen

Back when Rodman was a Piston

Mike was losin' to Isaiah, but he soon would get his sixth one

Gave birth to my verbal imagination

Assume a virtue if you have not

Or better yet, here's a verse from Hamlet

"Lord, we know who we are

Yet we know not what we may be"

So maybe I'm the one, or maybe I'm crazy

I'm from Marcy Houses, where the boys die by the thousand

Back when Pam was on Martin

Yeah, that's where it all started

When Denzel was blottin' carpet, I'll pack a 9 millimeter

When Slick Rick made Mona Lisa

When Lisa Bonet was Beyoncé of her day, I had divas, y'all

Think I just popped up in this bitch like a fetus? Nah

Pregnant pause

Give you some second thoughts

There's room on the bandwagon, don't abort

Marcy me

Marcy me

Streets is my arteries, vein of my existence

I'm the Gotham City heartbeat

I started in lobbies, now parlay with Saudis

I'm a Sufi to goofies, I could prolly speak Farsi

That's poetry, reek of coca leaf in my past

Came through the bushes smellin' like roses

I need a trophy just for that

Old Brooklyn, not this new shit, shit feel like a spoof

Fat laces in your shoe, I'm talking bustin' off the roof

Hold the Uzi vertical, let the thing smoke

Y'all flirting with death, I be winking through the scope

Shout out to all the murderers turned murals

Plural, fuck the Federal Bureau

Shout out to Nostrand Ave., Flushing Ave., Myrtle

All the County of Kings, may your grounds stay fertile

Shout out to Big Poppa, Daddy Kane, heroes

Thus, concludin' my concerto

Marcy Me

Must be in the air, oh

Can't walk away, I know

I know

Just the way I'm raised, I know

I know, I know, I know

Oh, Marcy, Marcy me

Just the way I am always gonna be

I ain't gonna change, no

Marcy, Marcy me

Just the way I am

Ain't gon' change, I know

Ain't gon' change, I know

Couldn't change me if I wanted to

You couldn't change me if you wanted to

I'ma take this with me to the moon