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Gather 'round, gather 'round, hurry |
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Uh, welcome! uh, little boys and girls |
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Listen, I'm 'bout to lace, y'all motherfuckers |
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About Oakland, the city of dope |
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The first place in the world to ever sell base rock |
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Nigga, crack rock, they put it there to get rid |
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Of the panthers, but they really created this ballin' |
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What, what, nigga |
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Me and my niggas trying to ride drop |
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Buy rocks then we buy blocks |
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From the same dope fiends on my block |
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Who buy rocks, want supply hot |
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Weight servin' cakes like IHOP |
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Ever since them last motherfuckers got shot |
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Police been hot on my spot |
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Spot cops FBI watch |
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Got fiber-optic shit up in the pole |
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Showing my whole clique on crime watch |
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We let non-stop and show our faces |
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So what the case is |
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We wide on TV but still the grind don't stop |
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Nigga this Oakland, the city of dope |
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You know where that crack shit was invented |
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And smoked by these ghetto chemists years ago |
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On Plymouth street we call the block |
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Plymouth rock |
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The first place like the world to ever sell base rocks |
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Now check it |
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The legendary Phoenix Mitchell put it down |
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So tough they had to make a movie about the town |
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But called it Nino Brown |
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That bullshit New Jack City |
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Is really based upon this place we call crack city |
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Oakland, Cali we act shitty |
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Think crack's the answer |
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To get rid of these revolutionary Black Panthers |
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Smokin' blow and takin' like jo-jo dancer |
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Or sniff it up your nose and ball out of control |
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Like Tony Montana |
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House in Atlanta, 3-car garage |
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Our ghetto superstars was hard |
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Young niggas touch a mil-ticket |
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Before they life behind bars |
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Niggas get caught with like eighty kilos |
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Hidden in the wall |
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But shit ain't hidden at all |
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From these cocaine sniffin' dogs |
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Same with the law |
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Shit in your draws when they get your ass |
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And let the ballers ball, get the cash |
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Till they get to your ass |
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I've never seen a baller fall on his knees |
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And snitch so fast |
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Plea bargain run after them niggas |
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That hang out with your ass |
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No wonder why that bitch-ass nigga got out |
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So quick, so fast |
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Came on the block my niggas saw you |
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Choppin' it up with task |
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Now that's a violation |
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Nigga can't chop it up with task |
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So while the trial awaits |
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Some nigga walks up and pumped his ass |
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Because the niggas in the O are hard as fuck |
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We sell Peruvian flake |
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Get it powdered, or rocked up |
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Don't want nothin' from life but to retire from the game |
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Motherfuckin' city of cocaine |
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City of dope |
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East Oakland, yeah, that's right |
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The city of dope |
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East Oakland, yeah, that's right |
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Them task folks can't stop us |
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High school niggas get caught with a hundred G's |
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Stashed in his locker along with a chopper |
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Niggas be ballin' like a doctor, or a surgeon |
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M.C. Hammer splurgin' |
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He bought up countless brand new helicopters |
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And suburbans, now he hurtin' |
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The feds spilled they base downtown |
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So now it's curtains |
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Niggas be perpin' off |
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Certain it's gon' be a sweep |
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Dope fiend came through last week |
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Told me it's gonna be a sweep |
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1991's the number nigga |
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End of the summer |
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Niggas ain't ridin' no fuckin' Hummers |
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We ride under buckets and try to stay on the slunder |
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I wonder, wonder what they would do |
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To a nigga who get caught with 2 pounds of thunder |
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Straight from Humboldt County, fuck that brown |
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Weed all should be green like the jungle |
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Dope fiends tryin' to warn us |
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Settin' up scene still in a bundle |
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We beat they ass and drag them from they hair |
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Just like Repunzel |
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Don't fuck up our hustle |
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But anyway the day came just as predicted |
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I'm up at 6 in the mornin' takin' early morning pissin' |
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Pulled down my britches, and a nigga almost shitted |
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I heard somebody walkin' on the roof |
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I cocked the fo-fitness |
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Woke my cousin mike up |
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Could be some niggas sent to strike us |
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'Cause back then so many niggas didn't like us |
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Looked out the window, all I saw |
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Was FBI and snipers |
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I let the china white flush |
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And put that motherfucking 4-5 up |
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See the dope fiend he informed us |
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Told us it's gonna be a sweep and then |
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He tried to warn us |
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But niggas out here try to make they money |
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So we 'nourmous then only a battering ram |
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Bustin' down your shit, 'nourmous |
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Highway patrols, 5.0's, ambulance and coroners |
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In case there was a shootout or high-speed chase performance |
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By 9:00, they lock down each baller from every corner |
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From north to west on down to East Oakland, California |
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But, but, them niggas from the O is hard as fuck |
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We sell Peruvian flake powder or get it rocked up |
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Want nothing in life but to retire from the game |
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With some change in the city of cocaine |
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East Oakland, yeah, that's right |
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City of dope |
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East Oakland, yeah, that's right |
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City of dope |