Hello Brooklyn
Suggested Reading
How you doin’?
Where you goin’?
Can I come to?
—Jay-Z feat. Lil Wayne
PHOTOS BY ROBEL KASSA/PARADIGM84
Sometimes I feel like my only friend
Is the city I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn
—Mos Def
Now I’ve come home to finish
finish my Brooklyn Blues
—Barry Manilow
Peep the style and the way the cops sweat us
The number one question is can the Feds get us?
—Jay-Z and Notorious B.I.G.
BK girls down wit that ride or die
So I always keep one right by my side
—Charles Hamilton
I’m a Brooklyn boy
I may take some gettin’ use to
—Jay-Z ft. Santogold
In the concrete jungle
The strong stand and rumble
The weak fold and crumble
It’s the land of trouble
—Lil’ Kim
You started with nothing but throwaways, You couldn’t live with me so you moved to, Brooklyn
—Jessie Malin
Brooklyn
Child of rhythm riding on a moonlit star
Brooklyn
Pretty daughter born with a smile
—Donna Summer
Let the harmony ring
With the promise of spring
On a Brooklyn street
—Sting
Little miss perfect sitting at the train stop,
Red nike high tops listening to hip-hop
—Bruno Mars
Growin’ up as a Brooklyn baby,
This is how I live my life…
—RZA
That’s the thing about Brooklyn
They never get enough
Of the rap and the music
And all the good stuff
—MC Lyte
Straight From 
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