(feat. Dee Dee)



[Jacka]

The Bay Area

Yeah boy that's where I'm from

I remember '85

That's when they cracked with cum

A lot of niggas got gritz

But most these niggas got stung

With years under they belt

Tryin' to feel what they felt

To be the nigg

Watch the ice it don't melt

'86 through '88

The game got bigger

We done hit the block

Squatin' baby ninjas

On our way to school

Park my shit around the corner

So fly, so cool

Young nigga

Brooklyn breed MC's

The Bay breed drug dealers

You got a youngsta that flows

I got a young nigga that push coke

Plus he got hoes

Stay on the rope

Can't understand life

But grab the mic

And let the track explode



[Chorus: Dee Dee]

And you know I'm from the Bay

Muthafuckin' A-R-E-A

You know what I mean

No other place I'd rather be

And you know I don't try to flee

To another muthafuckin' state

You know what I mean

It wasn't thug enough for me



[Jacka]

On my way to the port

To drop my nigga Cormega

On Too $hort birthday

Plus all the Figaz together

The boys put us on the way

To hustle up out the weather

Yuk 85 turned out

Hit the corner hit

Then hit me on my burn out

When you niggas gon' learn 'bout

The muthafuckin' Bay

It's superthug where I stay

Frisco, North Richmond to O-A-K

Central South Richmond and E-P-A

Pittsburg got the coke

For a price you must pay

Yeah boy, believe what they say

Ain't nothin' scarier than the Bay

High speed everyday

Adolescents tuck weapons

Niggas bleed everyday

You got to have heart

Just to fit up where I stay

And I've been everywhere

Ain't nothin' thuggin' of me

Yo, we live this shit

That you see on T.V. [what]



[Chorus]



[Jacka]

Fuck 'em, one time

Like Hittaz On Da Payroll

Hits on the street

The radio don't ever play so

Don't nobody know

Who the real niggas is

I dedicate this rap

To the muthafuckin' Figz

3 X Krazy, Askari X, The Click,

Mescaline, J.T. The Bigga Figga,

The Gamblaz; them my niggas

The Young D Boyz, Mac Mall,

Never Legal, Sick Insane, Lil' Ric

Mr. Braid, The Hoodfellas,

Sincydal, San Quinn, Mac Dre,

Willie Hen, Too $hort, Father Don,

Lil' Boots, Mac Shawn, R.B.L., 11/5,

Guce, Sandman, and P.O.D.E.,

Can't forget G-O-V

And Seagram rest in peace

And Rappin' Ron

Rest in peace too

I got my ears to the streets too

This for the yay

And they never could defeat you

The Ghetto Starz, Big Block, and

Richie Rich, 2 Pac, and 51/50

What the shit

So with Digital Underground

And Souls of Mischief

Spice 1, Pooh Man, Dangerous Dame, and

Young Cellski, C-Bo, Yukmouth, and Nutty B

You out a town and study me

Want me to show you

How you should be

You niggas thugs now

But we been that

And I'm the proof

Cuz now it's back

Where I begin at [echoes out]



[Chorus x2]