Yeah, what's up? This is Queen Latifah in the house

Definitely representing Jersey on the love love

Cooling in Cali, shooting Living Single, but damn, I miss home

I can't forget New Jersey

I can't forget New Jersey

I can't forget New Jersey

I can't forget New Jersey

When I think of home, I think of a place where there's love overflowing

And all my family and peeps I knew when I was growing

Mommy and Daddy made me proud to be an Owens

Taught me to keep going, straight up, and never knowing

I would become Her Eminence and Royal Highness-

The Queen Latifah, no doubt one of New Jersey's finest, so

Set it off, get 'em up for my own, 'cause

Jersey's what I think about when I think of home

Don't let no one get close to you except the chosen

Stick with the ones who meant the most to you when you were broke and blue

That's how fam do

That's how you stay true around these snakes that freaking smile when they hate you

I'm quick to take a ride down for In Town

(Just another day living on lockdown)

My experience legit, my rhymes is on hit

It's mad truth to the rumor, we the shit, I can't forget

I can't forget New Jersey

I can't forget New Jersey

I can't forget New Jersey

I can't forget New Jersey

I used to work at Burger King, but after taking orders

I used to take the path to Latin Quarters, cross the waters

When I learned to do the Wop, yo, I couldn't stop

I brought it back around the way to show the people on my block

Teacher, teacher, tell me how you do it?

It looks so simple like there is nothing to it, so

We meet in Irvington, High Horse, and after school, I run

To the Willowbrook mall boostin' with Sulamon

I had a talent for getting 'em for gear

Petty thief, small-time crook of the year

But I chilled 'cause I had bigger dreams than the steel

And Ramsey came for me and Apache to put our voices on a reel

And I can hear myself on the radio

"45 King Special Red Alert Show"

'Cause that's what life was all about to me

R-E-P Flavor Unit, representin' Jersey

I can't forget New Jersey

I can't forget New Jersey

I can't forget New Jersey

I can't forget New Jersey

I think about my moms and my brothers when I'm on swole

Shakim, when I'm on swole

My baby sister, when I'm on swole

Hoffstead, when I'm on swole

Ill-Town, when I on swole

Jill-Town, J.C, when I'm all swole

Irvington, Newark, and so on, when I'm on swole

Recognize the home of my soul

Hey, we got Naughty by Nature, we got Nicky, we got Redman

The Artifacts, and Whitney, Bon Jovi them my bogeys

Bruce Springsteen, and Das EFX, Shaquille O'Neal, oh, he'll catch wreck

Tisha Campbell, Jerry Lewis, Tony Bennett

Backspin, we spinning, Thursday, peppermint, I'm in it

Shadows, I knows no foes in the spot

'Cause them peeps is my peeps and my back is got

Nuff respect to your borough, your block, you're Black

I love to see us move as a flock, unstrapped against each other

Nobody armor, nobody harms a hair on a head, everything's karma

And we cool, the ghetto stalls and fools

We paid the dues, we made the blues

So come on with the come on, get down with the get down

I'm down with my hometown sound

I can't forget New Jersey

I can't forget New Jersey

I can't forget New Jersey

I can't forget New Jersey