This young man @AlexNinoOrlando got the “BKNY” melody down pat!
 

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A few days early because of the holiday, and eight songs instead of five! Action Bronson, Alicia Keys, Fat Tony, French Montana, Joey Bada$$, Lil B’s cat Keke, OXYxMORON, and Roc Marciano. 

Fat Tony ft. Old Money - “BKNY”

I am thankful for New Underground nerd rap. Houston’s Fat Tony thanks the people throughout Brooklyn for housing him, giving him weed, and hey, sleeping with him, too. It’s like a hyper-regional version of magnanimous morning-after city shout-out songs like Slum Village’s “Selfish” or Ludacris’ “Area Codes”: “I ain’t from there but I come there, and I fuck a girl in Crown Heights / I ain’t there but I come there, ain’t afraid to walk at night.” Tom Cruz’s waddling VHS hiss beat drifts along with an ambling, on-vacation sense of purposelessness, which totally works, while whispering guest rapper Old Money plays cross-street-and-subway-stop madlibs. What you also hear in this song is a sense of the New Underground get-in-the-van qualities revolving around favors from friends who’ll let you sleep on their floor, and allow you to chow down on the food in their fridge, when you come through town for a show, or recording session: “Hey Abby in Williamsburg, I know me and my friends get up on your nerves / But thanks for letting us stay / I appreciate it until this day.” 

“BKNY” LYRICS

[Fat Tony]
I’m Mr. Mother Fucking like eXquire
Hold up, hold on, pipe down, I’m on the phone with National Enquirer
And the intern inquired, is she really my girlfriend?
Is my album gon’ be weird? And how much money have I acquired
I told her, “I can answer anything you desire”
She said we can’t be getting freaky or she’ll be fired
But I was an artist running like Forrest in the forest that she admired
She told me to meet her in Bed-Stuy
On Friday round a quarter to 5:00pm
I could barely get a break in them thighs
Yeah, we on the creep, R.I.P. Left Eye
I ain’t R. Kelly, but I’m thinking Kelly got that vibe
I pushed my pride aside to slide inside til she tired
Been in it for so long I might retire
Rode her like a carnival, read the article, said I was fire

I ain’t from there but I come there and I fuck a girl in Crown Heights
I ain’t from there but I come there, ain’t afraid to walk around at night
I’m in Bed-Stuy with a red eye, I’m the shit in Bushwick
Blowing kush in Flatbush, Brooklyn!

[Old Money]
Altantic ave, I’m dolla van
I’m Fulton Mall, I’m down at BAM
I’m Lafayette, I’m Utica
I’m Malcolm X, I’m Nostrand Ave
I’m Empire meet Remsen Ave
I’m Flatbush @ Farragut
I’m Kings Highway, Prospect Park
Linden Boulevard
I’m Brooklyn Bowl, I’m Southpaw
I’m Glasslands, I’m Union Hall
I’m Golden Crust, Crown Fried 
Bed-Stuy gentrified
I’m Pitkin Ave @ Rockaway
I’m museum first Saturdays
I’m the Parkway on Labor Day
I’m “yo son, BK!”
Holla, hold on hold on hold yow
Pahtee dun, babylon dem a show up yow
Church Ave, jerk chicken barrel smoke
Girls got the attitudes for reasons that we’ll never knooooow 
…….Camera towers eher’where, 
Pot holes in the road make your tires disappear
See the block, see it black, you gone see cops
Thats unless its a time when you need the cops
I need to stop, hop to the roti shop
Ali’s - for them doubles and some sour sop
Leaving, gypsy cab holla back
Only go a block and half, charge yo ass 3 stacks for that
Papi bodega got that face lift
But you go inside, it’s still the same shit
All day, ehhh day, that’s what we say
Liquor store corner store liquor store, BK!

[Fat Tony]
I ain’t from there but I come there and I fuck a girl in Crown Heights
I ain’t from there but I come there, ain’t afraid to walk around at night
I’m in Bed-Stuy with a red eye, I’m the shit in Bushwick
Blowing kush in Flatbush, Brooklyn!

Hey Abby in Williamsburg, I know me and my friends get up on your nerves
But thanks for letting us stay, I appreciate it til this day
And Danielle in Bushwick, you really are my heart, shit
I wanna give back what you gave but I’ma be here til your grave
I’m on the rooftop, barbecuing with Shaka Groovin’
AKA Tom Cruz, got the paparazzi pursuing
And they wanna see all of our activities
They wanna photograph all of our extremities
In my mind, I’m kind of akin to Socrates
On these B’s, I’m sort of like Hercules
Cause I be handling, traveling, on or off the court
Especially when I be off in the New York

I ain’t from there but I come there and I fuck a girl in Crown Heights
I ain’t from there but I come there, ain’t afraid to walk around at night
I’m in Bed-Stuy with a red eye, I’m the shit in Bushwick
Blowing kush in Flatbush, Brooklyn!

Fat Tony and Tom Cruz’s video for “BKNY” is more than a laid-back jam to soundtrack our memories of summers past, it’s also a helpful reminder that NYC has pretty strict public consumption of alcohol laws and you’re best off hiding that booze in an unlabeled bottle, paper bag, or at very least a coconut.

Directed and Produced by Ryan Muir
Photography: Ryan Muir, Jared Feldman, Ethan Moses
Post-Production: Ryan Muir
Asst. Editor: Jared Feldman

Cameo Appearances by…
Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire
10ille (Tennille)
Johnny Nelson
Nick Catchdubs
Kool A.D.
Melo-X
Lil’ Friday Hoe
Dark Sister
Chippy Nonstop
Jimmy JAMS
Nasty Nigel (Children of the Night) 

(via Noisey: Fat Tony - “BKNY”)

NOISEY & LIFE OR DEATH Present: FAT TONY’s “BKNY” Video Premiere Party

THE FLAT (308 Hooper at South 5th in Brooklyn)
Tuesday, November 13th, 9:00pm
Free

“Noisey and Life or Death teamed up to throw a party for the release of Fat Tony’s new music video for “BKNY” (feat. Old Money) [Produced by Tom Cruz]. It’s free. Some of the best new rappers are going to be there DJing and whooping it up, big time. You’re not going to find a better party on a Tuesday if you are a lover of modern rap music.” - Noisey
https://www.facebook.com/events/331757386922190/


“[Tuesday, 11/13 The Flat’s] got the release party for Fat Tony’s “BKNY” music video with DJ sets from the man himself, plus Tom Cruz, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, DJ Sicksentz, Kitty Pryde, Lakutis, Cities Aviv, and Dapwell from Das Racist. Also free, 9 PM start.” - Brooklyn Vegan
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/11/heems_le1f_fat.html

DJ SETS BY…
FAT TONY & TOM CRUZ
MR. MUTHAFUCKIN’ EXQUIRE & DJ SICKSENTZ
KITTY PRYDE
NASTY NIGEL (CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT)
LAKUTIS
CITIES AVIV vs. TIFFANY (DARK SiSTER)
DAPWELL (DAS RACIST)