Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Music Jay-Z Has Referenced Brooklyn in Song 67 Times
Posted by Jessica McKenzie on Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Fun fact: when listening to any given Jay-Z song, there is a 37% chance that he’ll reference Brooklyn. Crazy!
The references range from the geographical ("You know when I heard that? When I was back home/I'mcomfortable dogg, Brooklyn to Rome") to the literary ("I planted my seed on infertile land Myrtle Park/Marcy,Flushing and Nostrand and/Still I grew some how I knew the sun will shinethrough/And touch my soul take hold of my hand/Look man, a tree grows in Brooklyn"), to the incendiary ("I'm ballin' for real you pump faking' it/Manhattankeep on faking it, Brooklyn keep on taking it"), and also touching on professional sports ("Chi-town's D-Rose/I'm movin' the Nets to BK").
Then there’s my personal favorite, from “Hello, Brooklyn”:
"Like a mama you birthed me, Brooklyn you nursedme/Schooled me with the hard knocks, better than Berkeley/They said you'd murkme, by the time I was twenty-one/That shit disturbed me, but you never hurtme/Hello Brooklyn, if we had a daughter/Guess what I'm a call her, Brooklyn Carter/When I left you for Virginia, it didn't offend ya"
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