Gather 'round, gather 'round, hurry Uh, welcome! uh, little boys and girls Listen, I'm bout to lace yall motherfuckers about Oakland, the City of Dope The first place in the world to ever sell base rock nigga, crack rock, they put it there to get rid of the Panthers, but they really created this ballin what, what, nigga Verse 1: Me and my niggas trying to ride drop buy rocks then we buy blocks from the same dope fiends on my block who buy rocks want supply hot weight servin cakes like IHOP ever since them last motherfuckers got shot police been hot on my spot spot cops FBI watch got fiber-optic shit up in the pole showing my whole clique on crime watch we let non-stop and show our faces so what the case is we wide on TV but still the grind don't stop nigga this Oakland, the city of dope You know where that crack shit was invented and smoked by these ghetto chemists years ago on Plymouth street we call the block Plymouth Rock the first place like the world to ever sell base rocks now check it, the legendary Phoenix Mitchell put it down so tough they had to make a movie about the town but called it Nino Brown That bullshit New Jack City is really based upon this place we call Crack City Oakland, Cali we act shitty think crack's the answer to get rid of these revolutionary Black Panthers Smokin' blow and takin (???) like Jo-Jo Dancer Or sniff it up your nose and ball out of control like Tony Montana house in Atlanta 3-car garage our ghetto superstars was hard young niggas touch a mil-ticket before they life behind bars niggas get caught with like eighty kilos hidden in the wall but shit ain't hidden at all from these cocaine sniffin dogs same with the law shit in your draws when they get your ass and let the ballers ball, get the cash till they get to your ass I've never seen a baller fall on his knees and snitch so fast plea bargain run after them niggas that hang out with your ass no wonder why that bitch-ass nigga got out so quick, so fast came on the block my niggas saw you choppin' it up with task now that's a violation nigga can't chop it up with task so while the trial awaits some nigga walks up and pumped his ass Because the niggas in the O are hard as fuck we sell peruvian flake, get it powdered, or rocked up don't want nothin from life but to retire from the game motherfuckin city of cocaine, city of dope East Oakland, yeah that's right the city of dope East Oakland, yeah that's right Verse 2: them task folks can't stop us high school niggas get caught with a hundred G's stashed in his locker along with a chopper niggas be ballin like a doctor, or a surgeon M.C. Hammer splurgin' he bought up countless brand new helicopters and suburbans, now he hurtin the feds spilled they base downtown so now its curtains Niggas be perpin' off certain it's gon' be a sweep dope feind came through last week told me its gonna be a sweep 1991's the number nigga end of the summer niggas ain't ridin no fuckin hummers we ride under buckets and try to stay on the slunder I wonder, wonder what they would do to a nigga who get caught with 2 pounds of thunder straight from Humboldt county, fuck that brown weed all should be green like the jungle dope fiends tryin to warn us settin' up scene still in a bundle we beat they ass and drag them from they hair just like repunzel don't fuck up our hustle But anyway the day came just as predicted I'm up at 6 in the mornin' takin early morning pissin' pulled down my britches, and a nigga almost shitted I heard somebody walkin on the roof I cocked the fo-fitness woke my cousin Mike up could be some niggas sent to strike us cause back then so many niggas didn't like us looked out the window, all I saw was FBI and snipers I let the china white flush and put that motherfucking 4-5 up see the dope fiend he informed us told us its gonna be a sweep and then he tried to warn us but niggas out here try to make they money so we 'nourmous then only a battering ram bustin down your shit, 'nourmous highway patrols, 5.0's, ambulance and coroners in case there was a shootout or high-speed chase performance by 9:00 they lock down each baller from every corner from north to west on down to east Oakland California but, but, them niggas from the O is hard as fuck we sell Peruvian flake powder or get it rocked up want nothing in life but to retire from the game with some change in the city of cocaine, East Oakland, yeah that's right city of dope East Oakland, yeah that's right city of dope