Where I'm From

Being where I'm from Where, where I'm from Being where I'm from Let me take you on a ride, it's so fly Being where I'm from Where we got that hometown pride, it's so live Being where I'm from We don't got nothing to hide, it's alright Being where I'm from It's a part of me still Being where I'm from You just gotta be real Being where I'm from From my block to your block Where growing up we never kept our doors locked Still we guard our corners like they're Fort Knox And your neighbor might just spank ya 'fore they call cops Even if you ain't their children, I know they can feel this To raise a child, you know it takes a village And I gotta thank em for that The faith instilled in me is from them Not St. Francis or St. Camillus From Belle Harbor to the Dayton Buildings From uptown to downtown I just wanna make my hometown proud 'Fore I ever think of making millions What's the point with going off with these bars If I can't walk in the bar Put the tip in the jar Dap the bartender go outside and split a cigar Put some piff in the sky, then we dip in the car Like yeah I'm done, man that's just how it goes Being where I'm from Let me take you on a ride, it's so fly Being where I'm from Where we got that hometown pride, it's so live Being where I'm from We don't got nothing to hide, it's alright Being where I'm from It's a part of me still Being where I'm from You just gotta be real Being where I'm from If you from here, you from the family See back in the days, they couldn't understand me Learned to play both sides when it comes in handy Now when they see me man they treat me like I won a Grammy I see this neighborhood for what it can be I just sit, hope and pray to God we never see another Sandy How come they can't be, the turf of the winners I'm really at my Whit's End, but what they serving for dinner? Just a certain percentage, I still think it's a bummer Yeah we drink in the summer And we surf in the winter I'ma keep it a hundred Yeah we're Queens but not really We got racial divides, man I think that shit's silly Here's a change of the tides Man they try to throw shade but we take it in stride And I say this with pride Here's a change of the tides Man they try to throw shade but we take it in stride And I say this with pride Being where I'm from Let me take you on a ride, it's so fly Being where I'm from Where we got that hometown pride, it's so live Being where I'm from We don't got nothing to hide, it's alright Being where I'm from It's a part of me still Being where I'm from You just gotta be real Being where I'm from Now let the smoke come quicker It's so fly Being where I'm from Now let the smoke come quicker It's so live Being where I'm from We don't got nothing to hide, it's alright Being where I'm from It's a part of me still Being where I'm from You just gotta be real Being where I'm from, I'm from, I'm from, I'm from, I'm from --- Where I'm From - Bobby J from Rockaway