Gather ?round, gather ?round, hurry   Uh, welcome! uh, little boys and girls   Listen, I?m 'bout to lace, y?all 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      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' [unverified] 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      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 it?s curtains   Niggas be perpin? off   Certain it?s gon? be a sweep   Dope fiend came through last week      Told me it?s 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 it?s 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