City Of Dope

Song City Of Dope
Artist Yukmouth
Album Thugged Out: The Albulation

Lyrics

[00:01.47] Gather 'round, gather 'round, hurry
[00:04.85] Uh, welcome! uh, little boys and girls
[00:05.92] Listen, I'm 'bout to lace, y'all motherfuckers
[00:07.92] About Oakland, the city of dope
[00:11.10] The first place in the world to ever sell base rock
[00:16.34] Nigga, crack rock, they put it there to get rid
[00:19.15] Of the panthers, but they really created this ballin'
[00:21.59] What, what, nigga
[00:22.83] Me and my niggas trying to ride drop
[00:24.56] Buy rocks then we buy blocks
[00:25.93] From the same dope fiends on my block
[00:27.43] Who buy rocks, want supply hot
[00:29.06] Weight servin' cakes like IHOP
[00:30.90] Ever since them last motherfuckers got shot
[00:32.79] Police been hot on my spot
[00:33.70] Spot cops FBI watch
[00:35.19] Got fiber-optic shit up in the pole
[00:37.85] Showing my whole clique on crime watch
[00:39.89] We let non-stop and show our faces
[00:41.78] So what the case is
[00:42.91] We wide on TV but still the grind don't stop
[00:44.90] Nigga this Oakland, the city of dope
[00:47.10] You know where that crack shit was invented
[00:49.06] And smoked by these ghetto chemists years ago
[00:51.14] On Plymouth street we call the block
[00:52.99] Plymouth rock
[00:53.59] The first place like the world to ever sell base rocks
[00:56.32] Now check it
[00:57.18] The legendary Phoenix Mitchell put it down
[00:59.78] So tough they had to make a movie about the town
[01:01.51] But called it Nino Brown
[01:02.62] That bullshit New Jack City
[01:04.21] Is really based upon this place we call crack city
[01:06.73] Oakland, Cali we act shitty
[01:08.22] Think crack's the answer
[01:09.45] To get rid of these revolutionary Black Panthers
[01:12.21] Smokin' blow and takin' like jo-jo dancer
[01:14.84] Or sniff it up your nose and ball out of control
[01:17.74] Like Tony Montana
[01:18.62] House in Atlanta, 3-car garage
[01:19.73] Our ghetto superstars was hard
[01:21.71] Young niggas touch a mil-ticket
[01:23.44] Before they life behind bars
[01:24.78] Niggas get caught with like eighty kilos
[01:26.67] Hidden in the wall
[01:27.59] But shit ain't hidden at all
[01:29.17] From these cocaine sniffin' dogs
[01:30.14] Same with the law
[01:31.11] Shit in your draws when they get your ass
[01:33.10] And let the ballers ball, get the cash
[01:34.32] Till they get to your ass
[01:36.15] I've never seen a baller fall on his knees
[01:38.00] And snitch so fast
[01:39.23] Plea bargain run after them niggas
[01:40.45] That hang out with your ass
[01:41.65] No wonder why that bitch-ass nigga got out
[01:43.59] So quick, so fast
[01:44.31] Came on the block my niggas saw you
[01:46.00] Choppin' it up with task
[01:46.85] Now that's a violation
[01:48.44] Nigga can't chop it up with task
[01:50.17] So while the trial awaits
[01:51.34] Some nigga walks up and pumped his ass
[01:53.13] Because the niggas in the O are hard as fuck
[01:55.27] We sell Peruvian flake
[01:57.31] Get it powdered, or rocked up
[01:58.69] Don't want nothin' from life but to retire from the game
[02:01.43] Motherfuckin' city of cocaine
[02:04.10] City of dope
[02:05.06] East Oakland, yeah, that's right
[02:10.05] The city of dope
[02:10.99] East Oakland, yeah, that's right
[02:15.44] Them task folks can't stop us
[02:18.19] High school niggas get caught with a hundred G's
[02:20.24] Stashed in his locker along with a chopper
[02:22.02] Niggas be ballin' like a doctor, or a surgeon
[02:24.57] M.C. Hammer splurgin'
[02:26.14] He bought up countless brand new helicopters
[02:27.77] And suburbans, now he hurtin'
[02:29.76] The feds spilled they base downtown
[02:31.87] So now it's curtains
[02:32.88] Niggas be perpin' off
[02:34.16] Certain it's gon' be a sweep
[02:34.77] Dope fiend came through last week
[02:36.20] Told me it's gonna be a sweep
[02:37.27] 1991's the number nigga
[02:39.62] End of the summer
[02:41.72] Niggas ain't ridin' no fuckin' Hummers
[02:43.61] We ride under buckets and try to stay on the slunder
[02:46.42] I wonder, wonder what they would do
[02:48.06] To a nigga who get caught with 2 pounds of thunder
[02:50.16] Straight from Humboldt County, fuck that brown
[02:52.71] Weed all should be green like the jungle
[02:54.03] Dope fiends tryin' to warn us
[02:55.67] Settin' up scene still in a bundle
[02:57.15] We beat they ass and drag them from they hair
[02:58.99] Just like Repunzel
[03:00.07] Don't fuck up our hustle
[03:01.24] But anyway the day came just as predicted
[03:03.68] I'm up at 6 in the mornin' takin' early morning pissin'
[03:05.82] Pulled down my britches, and a nigga almost shitted
[03:08.81] I heard somebody walkin' on the roof
[03:11.05] I cocked the fo-fitness
[03:12.32] Woke my cousin mike up
[03:13.92] Could be some niggas sent to strike us
[03:15.24] 'Cause back then so many niggas didn't like us
[03:17.83] Looked out the window, all I saw
[03:19.55] Was FBI and snipers
[03:20.53] I let the china white flush
[03:22.35] And put that motherfucking 4-5 up
[03:24.29] See the dope fiend he informed us
[03:26.33] Told us it's gonna be a sweep and then
[03:28.18] He tried to warn us
[03:28.99] But niggas out here try to make they money
[03:30.74] So we 'nourmous then only a battering ram
[03:33.04] Bustin' down your shit, 'nourmous
[03:34.87] Highway patrols, 5.0's, ambulance and coroners
[03:37.41] In case there was a shootout or high-speed chase performance
[03:40.13] By 9:00, they lock down each baller from every corner
[03:42.74] From north to west on down to East Oakland, California
[03:44.97] But, but, them niggas from the O is hard as fuck
[03:49.00] We sell Peruvian flake powder or get it rocked up
[03:52.07] Want nothing in life but to retire from the game
[03:55.19] With some change in the city of cocaine
[03:57.95] East Oakland, yeah, that's right
[04:02.96] City of dope
[04:06.42] East Oakland, yeah, that's right
[04:09.12] City of dope