"Bucktown” is a hip-hop term for Brownsville, Brooklyn or the entire borough of Brooklyn. Maybe Brownsville receives lots of “buckshot.”
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bucktown
Brooklyn, NYC.
“Bucktown USA - Boot Camp Click”
“Bucktown - Smif n Wesson”
by Hamydeez Oct 6, 2003
Wikipedia: List of City Nicknames in the United States
Brooklyn:
The City of Churches
The City of Trees
BK
Brooknah
Brooknam
Bucktown
Crooklyn
Medina
The planet
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From: Tommy K. - view profile
Date: Thurs, Apr 20 1995 12:00 am
>Black Moon (Buckshot can’t rhyme w/o sayin “shit iz real” or “Bucktown")
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From: Niels Janssen - view profile
Date: Fri, Dec 1 1995 12:00 am
I N T E R N E T ‘ S T O T A L L Y U N O F F I C I A L
R A P D I C T I O N A R Y
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Bucktown
A neighborhood better known as the Brownsville section of Brooklyn used by Smif & Wesson and Black Moon.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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