[00:01.47]Gather 'round, gather 'round, hurry
[00:04.85]Uh, welcome! uh, little boys and girls
[00:05.92]Listen, I'm 'bout to lace, y'all motherfuckers
[00:07.92]About Oakland, the city of dope
[00:11.10]The first place in the world to ever sell base rock
[00:16.34]Nigga, crack rock, they put it there to get rid
[00:19.15]Of the panthers, but they really created this ballin'
[00:21.59]What, what, nigga
[00:22.83]Me and my niggas trying to ride drop
[00:24.56]Buy rocks then we buy blocks
[00:25.93]From the same dope fiends on my block
[00:27.43]Who buy rocks, want supply hot
[00:29.06]Weight servin' cakes like IHOP
[00:30.90]Ever since them last motherfuckers got shot
[00:32.79]Police been hot on my spot
[00:33.70]Spot cops FBI watch
[00:35.19]Got fiber-optic shit up in the pole
[00:37.85]Showing my whole clique on crime watch
[00:39.89]We let non-stop and show our faces
[00:41.78]So what the case is
[00:42.91]We wide on TV but still the grind don't stop
[00:44.90]Nigga this Oakland, the city of dope
[00:47.10]You know where that crack shit was invented
[00:49.06]And smoked by these ghetto chemists years ago
[00:51.14]On Plymouth street we call the block
[00:52.99]Plymouth rock
[00:53.59]The first place like the world to ever sell base rocks
[00:56.32]Now check it
[00:57.18]The legendary Phoenix Mitchell put it down
[00:59.78]So tough they had to make a movie about the town
[01:01.51]But called it Nino Brown
[01:02.62]That bullshit New Jack City
[01:04.21]Is really based upon this place we call crack city
[01:06.73]Oakland, Cali we act shitty
[01:08.22]Think crack's the answer
[01:09.45]To get rid of these revolutionary Black Panthers
[01:12.21]Smokin' blow and takin' like jo-jo dancer
[01:14.84]Or sniff it up your nose and ball out of control
[01:17.74]Like Tony Montana
[01:18.62]House in Atlanta, 3-car garage
[01:19.73]Our ghetto superstars was hard
[01:21.71]Young niggas touch a mil-ticket
[01:23.44]Before they life behind bars
[01:24.78]Niggas get caught with like eighty kilos
[01:26.67]Hidden in the wall
[01:27.59]But shit ain't hidden at all
[01:29.17]From these cocaine sniffin' dogs
[01:30.14]Same with the law
[01:31.11]Shit in your draws when they get your ass
[01:33.10]And let the ballers ball, get the cash
[01:34.32]Till they get to your ass
[01:36.15]I've never seen a baller fall on his knees
[01:38.00]And snitch so fast
[01:39.23]Plea bargain run after them niggas
[01:40.45]That hang out with your ass
[01:41.65]No wonder why that bitch-ass nigga got out
[01:43.59]So quick, so fast
[01:44.31]Came on the block my niggas saw you
[01:46.00]Choppin' it up with task
[01:46.85]Now that's a violation
[01:48.44]Nigga can't chop it up with task
[01:50.17]So while the trial awaits
[01:51.34]Some nigga walks up and pumped his ass
[01:53.13]Because the niggas in the O are hard as fuck
[01:55.27]We sell Peruvian flake
[01:57.31]Get it powdered, or rocked up
[01:58.69]Don't want nothin' from life but to retire from the game
[02:01.43]Motherfuckin' city of cocaine
[02:04.10]City of dope
[02:05.06]East Oakland, yeah, that's right
[02:10.05]The city of dope
[02:10.99]East Oakland, yeah, that's right
[02:15.44]Them task folks can't stop us
[02:18.19]High school niggas get caught with a hundred G's
[02:20.24]Stashed in his locker along with a chopper
[02:22.02]Niggas be ballin' like a doctor, or a surgeon
[02:24.57]M.C. Hammer splurgin'
[02:26.14]He bought up countless brand new helicopters
[02:27.77]And suburbans, now he hurtin'
[02:29.76]The feds spilled they base downtown
[02:31.87]So now it's curtains
[02:32.88]Niggas be perpin' off
[02:34.16]Certain it's gon' be a sweep
[02:34.77]Dope fiend came through last week
[02:36.20]Told me it's gonna be a sweep
[02:37.27]1991's the number nigga
[02:39.62]End of the summer
[02:41.72]Niggas ain't ridin' no fuckin' Hummers
[02:43.61]We ride under buckets and try to stay on the slunder
[02:46.42]I wonder, wonder what they would do
[02:48.06]To a nigga who get caught with 2 pounds of thunder
[02:50.16]Straight from Humboldt County, fuck that brown
[02:52.71]Weed all should be green like the jungle
[02:54.03]Dope fiends tryin' to warn us
[02:55.67]Settin' up scene still in a bundle
[02:57.15]We beat they ass and drag them from they hair
[02:58.99]Just like Repunzel
[03:00.07]Don't fuck up our hustle
[03:01.24]But anyway the day came just as predicted
[03:03.68]I'm up at 6 in the mornin' takin' early morning pissin'
[03:05.82]Pulled down my britches, and a nigga almost shitted
[03:08.81]I heard somebody walkin' on the roof
[03:11.05]I cocked the fo-fitness
[03:12.32]Woke my cousin mike up
[03:13.92]Could be some niggas sent to strike us
[03:15.24]'Cause back then so many niggas didn't like us
[03:17.83]Looked out the window, all I saw
[03:19.55]Was FBI and snipers
[03:20.53]I let the china white flush
[03:22.35]And put that motherfucking 4-5 up
[03:24.29]See the dope fiend he informed us
[03:26.33]Told us it's gonna be a sweep and then
[03:28.18]He tried to warn us
[03:28.99]But niggas out here try to make they money
[03:30.74]So we 'nourmous then only a battering ram
[03:33.04]Bustin' down your shit, 'nourmous
[03:34.87]Highway patrols, 5.0's, ambulance and coroners
[03:37.41]In case there was a shootout or high-speed chase performance
[03:40.13]By 9:00, they lock down each baller from every corner
[03:42.74]From north to west on down to East Oakland, California
[03:44.97]But, but, them niggas from the O is hard as fuck
[03:49.00]We sell Peruvian flake powder or get it rocked up
[03:52.07]Want nothing in life but to retire from the game
[03:55.19]With some change in the city of cocaine
[03:57.95]East Oakland, yeah, that's right
[04:02.96]City of dope
[04:06.42]East Oakland, yeah, that's right
[04:09.12]City of dope