(Oakland)

Oakland city
Oakland city
Oakland damn city
Oakland city
Oakland city
Oakland city
Oakland damn city
Oakland city

[Lateef the Truthspeaker:]
For richer, for poorer
Home of the revolutionaries
No tourists
Concrete bumps up against the forest
Your girlfriend on the chorus
Your uncle on the guitar
It's one of the few cities Bloods and Crips couldn't crack
Church players snatched up
To play for Janet Jackson
Everybody's hustling whether crack, cannabis
Throws off their back or a professional racket
Home of the Mac and debt and tall paper
Benzes, bimmers, old school's scrapers
Flatlands to hills, the dock of the bay 'cuz
Everywhere I go I get bundles of Bay love
You got hood rats, good girls that talk back
You got corporate businesswomen freaky in the sack
White, black, everything in between
Wrapped up in one tight package
It's that damn possibly packed in
Oakland city
Oakland city
Oakland damn city
Oakland city
Oakland city
Oakland city
Oakland damn city
Oakland city

[Del The Funky Homosapien:]
These are my-my Oakland raider
Promote my flavor so it float in my favor
And you better get some game real quick
Cuz lame brains get shticked out here
It's real sick
And fools be trying to clown
But not when I'm around
And drugs is easy to get
We can go find some now
Fool around and wound up with a doozy
The next thing you knew y'all was lighting up the shooty

Oakland city
Oakland city
Oakland damn city
Oakland city
Oakland city
Oakland city
Oakland damn city
Oakland city
[The Grouch:]
I come from the planet of Oakland
We got our own slang, own twang that's spoken
And it don't matter what race you are
Everybody pulling strings like a bass guitar
Oakland is proud, Oakland has got hustle
The town on got heart and talent by the busloads
AC transit, it's in my transcripts
I got Everett and Jones in my bones
From grown man shit to sideshow antics
I remember Eastmont Mall and ferry man trips
[?]
Put 5 on me
Hella raw, see I grew up with [?] in my teeth
Back then Too $hort was god to me
If you come from the O, you already know

Oakland city
Oakland city
Oakland damn city
Oakland city
Oakland city
Oakland city
Oakland damn city
Oakland city