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