City of Dope

Gather `round, gather `round, hurry<br>Uh, welcome! uh, little boys and girls<br>Listen, I`m bout to lace yall motherfuckers<br>about Oakland, the City of Dope<br>The first place in the world to ever sell base rock<br>nigga, crack rock, they put it there to get rid<br>of the Panthers, but they really created this ballin<br>what, what, nigga<br><br>Verse 1:<br><br>Me and my niggas trying to ride drop<br>buy rocks then we buy blocks <br>from the same dope fiends on my block who buy rocks <br>want supply hot<br>weight servin cakes like IHOP<br>ever since them last motherfuckers got shot<br>police been hot on my spot<br>spot cops FBI watch<br>got fiber-optic shit up in the pole<br>showing my whole clique on crime watch<br>we let non-stop and show our faces<br>so what the case is<br>we wide on TV but still the grind don`t stop<br>nigga this Oakland, the city of dope<br>You know where that crack shit was invented<br>and smoked by these ghetto chemists years ago<br>on Plymouth street we call the block<br>Plymouth Rock <br>the first place like the world to ever sell base rocks<br>now check it,<br>the legendary Phoenix Mitchell put it down<br>so tough they had to make a movie about the town<br>but called it Nino Brown<br>That bullshit New Jack City<br>is really based upon this place we call Crack City<br>Oakland, Cali we act shitty<br>think crack`s the answer<br>to get rid of these revolutionary Black Panthers<br>Smokin` blow and takin (???) like Jo-Jo Dancer<br>Or sniff it up your nose and ball out of control<br>like Tony Montana<br>house in Atlanta<br>3-car garage<br>our ghetto superstars was hard<br>young niggas touch a mil-ticket<br>before they life behind bars<br>niggas get caught with like eighty kilos<br>hidden in the wall<br>but shit ain`t hidden at all<br>from these cocaine sniffin dogs<br>same with the law<br>shit in your draws when they get your ass<br>and let the ballers ball, get the cash<br>till they get to your ass<br>I`ve never seen a baller fall on his knees<br>and snitch so fast<br>plea bargain run after them niggas<br>that hang out with your ass<br>no wonder why that bitch-ass nigga got out<br>so quick, so fast<br>came on the block my niggas saw you<br>choppin` it up with task<br>now that`s a violation<br>nigga can`t chop it up with task<br>so while the trial awaits<br>some nigga walks up and pumped his ass<br>Because the niggas in the O are hard as fuck<br>we sell peruvian flake, get it powdered, or rocked up<br>don`t want nothin from life but to retire from the game<br>motherfuckin city of cocaine,<br><br>city of dope<br>East Oakland, yeah that`s right<br>the city of dope<br>East Oakland, yeah that`s right<br><br>Verse 2:<br> <br>them task folks can`t stop us<br>high school niggas get caught with a hundred G`s<br>stashed in his locker along with a chopper<br>niggas be ballin like a doctor, or a surgeon<br>M.C. Hammer splurgin`<br>he bought up countless brand new helicopters<br>and suburbans, now he hurtin<br>the feds spilled they base downtown<br>so now its curtains<br>Niggas be perpin` off<br>certain it`s gon` be a sweep<br>dope feind came through last week<br>told me its gonna be a sweep<br>1991`s the number nigga<br>end of the summer<br>niggas ain`t ridin no fuckin hummers<br>we ride under buckets and try to stay on the slunder<br>I wonder, wonder what they would do<br>to a nigga who get caught with 2 pounds of thunder<br>straight from Humboldt county, fuck that brown<br>weed all should be green like the jungle<br>dope fiends tryin to warn us<br>settin` up scene still in a bundle<br>we beat they ass and drag them from they hair<br>just like repunzel<br>don`t fuck up our hustle<br>But anyway the day came just as predicted<br>I`m up at 6 in the mornin` takin early morning pissin`<br>pulled down my britches, and a nigga almost shitted<br>I heard somebody walkin on the roof<br>I cocked the fo-fitness<br>woke my cousin Mike up<br>could be some niggas sent to strike us<br>cause back then so many niggas didn`t like us<br>looked out the window, all I saw <br>was FBI and snipers<br>I let the china white flush<br>and put that motherfucking 4-5 up<br>see the dope fiend he informed us<br>told us its gonna be a sweep and then<br>he tried to warn us<br>but niggas out here try to make they money<br>so we `nourmous<br>then only a battering ram<br>bustin down your shit, `nourmous<br>highway patrols, 5.0`s, ambulance and coroners<br>in case there was a shootout or high-speed chase performance<br>by 9:00 they lock down each baller from every corner<br>from north to west on down to east Oakland California<br>but, but, them niggas from the O is hard as fuck<br>we sell Peruvian flake powder or get it rocked up<br>want nothing in life but to retire from the game<br>with some change in the city of cocaine, <br><br>East Oakland, yeah that`s right<br>city of dope<br>East Oakland, yeah that`s right<br>city of dope