[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 mother****ers[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]*************, 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, *************[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 **** 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 mother*******s got shot[00:32.79]Police been hot on my spot[00:33.70]Spot cops FBI watch[00:35.19]Got fiber-optic *************t 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]************* this Oakland, the city of ****[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 bull*************t New Jack City[01:04.21]Is really based upon this place we call crack city[01:06.73]Oakland, Cali we act *************tty[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 *************s touch a mil-ticket[01:23.44]Before they life behind bars[01:24.78]*************s get caught with like eighty kilos[01:26.67]Hidden in the wall[01:27.59]But *************t ain't hidden at all[01:29.17]From these ******* sniffin' dogs[01:30.14]Same with the law[01:31.11]*************t 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 *************s[01:40.45]That hang out with your ass[01:41.65]No wonder why that *************-ass ************* got out[01:43.59]So quick, so fast[01:44.31]Came on the block my *************s saw you[01:46.00]Choppin' it up with task[01:46.85]Now that's a violation[01:48.44]************* can't chop it up with task[01:50.17]So while the trial awaits[01:51.34]Some ************* walks up and pumped his ass[01:53.13]Because the *************s in the O are hard as *************[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]Mother******' city of *******[02:04.10]City of ****[02:05.06]East Oakland, yeah, that's right[02:10.05]The city of ****[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]*************s 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]*************s be perpin' off[02:34.16]Certain it's gon' be a sweep[02:34.77]**** fiend came through last week[02:36.20]Told me it's gonna be a sweep[02:37.27]1991's the number *************[02:39.62]End of the summer[02:41.72]*************s ain't ridin' no ******' 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 ************* who get caught with 2 pounds of thunder[02:50.16]Straight from Humboldt County, ************* that brown[02:52.71]******* all should be green like the jungle[02:54.03]**** 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 ************* 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 ************* almost *************tted[03:08.81]I heard somebody walkin' on the roof[03:11.05]I *******ed the fo-fitness[03:12.32]Woke my cousin mike up[03:13.92]Could be some *************s sent to strike us[03:15.24]'Cause back then so many *************s 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 mother******g 4-5 up[03:24.29]See the **** 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 *************s out here try to make they money[03:30.74]So we 'nourmous then only a battering ram[03:33.04]Bustin' down your *************t, '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 *************s from the O is hard as *************[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 *******[03:57.95]East Oakland, yeah, that's right[04:02.96]City of ****[04:06.42]East Oakland, yeah, that's right[04:09.12]City of ****