Ain't no love in Oakland, always talkin bout 'I love you' But ain't no love,
Now it's a shame, I can't be by John the Pope I be a pimp or sellin dope in this town, it's goin on And doin that can't live too long So my option, do it or not Break a hoe, a ki, just don't get caught Cause if I do, I'm goin to On a one-way to a prison cell So why the crime? Don't ask me to school everyday, and I still can't read I count money a champ, now ask me Why everyday does the task jack me The been told one million times a boy growin up to a life of crime I it before, you heard it too But now, homeboy, just me and you You see, people try to call us filthy though we live better and make mo' cash Than they do, I'm not a no-good Standin on the corner drugs And remember, this ain't multiple choice a college degree you only got your voice You talk for yours, or get nothin at all This the NBA, I ain't havin a ball day is a trip, but I ain't trippin Watch my back and don't start Money talk, but it looks right back Everytime I dip into my I'm buyin cars, jewelries, and mobile Things I couldn't get with a high school It's alright, cause I help myself You should know, I can't do nothin else And you better out for the day you lock me up and throw that key away Cause I'll be on parole Ain't changed nothing, I'm ready to roll I go to school now, but just to servin dopefiends what they want 5 to 10, 10 to 20 And I just keep on makin I hope you think my story's amazin I tell it to a kid in the ghetto, it faze him So many die for drugs I think back on the way was Before rock cocaine started thangs And drive-by was a normal thang Before bought Benzes, used to drive Mustangs 12 Years later, and I'm in the game All my all I wanted was a few hoes If I was pimpin or slingin at the sto' Ain't nothin but street life, fuck school All the squares up there ain't even Plus my partners at the sell coke all day Hit the mall like players, spendin fat-ass Junior wasn't shit but a place to fight Muthafuckas wasn't learnin how to and write I'm just down the street all alone as hell, my mind is gone I'm thinkin bout some shit and I'm broke I know I be a fiend if I smoke that But if I go to school and get educated Be a old-ass man before I So what I do, I can't even cope I I'll get a sack and start slingin dope I to my homie, said, "Give me the sack" He disappeared quick, and he came back He said, "You owe me a g, I give you a You up my money, don't cop no plead Cause in the Oak no love, $hort" I knew right then I couldn't sell that I was young, it was hard to tell If I up and be rich as hell See, I was cool I knew all the Big bank on my finger But I had a big bank, not back then I kicked and watched all my friends big money, right in my face And if you ever crossed them, they be on case You go under, six feet You gets no love from the
I drive my top like a movie star Drive around all night in old up cars And if you stop me, no tellin what you find in my trunk Gotta live like this, cause I no punk So break the dank and roll up that shit the muthafucka, take a fat-ass hit My all sticky from the residue Don't fuck me, I won't fuck with you Cause is only give and take In the town where the control the fake The wild west, that's the place Suckers a bite, and don't even taste The lifestyle that I live Mack these hoes every I get a drop SL, three times black I'm a pimp, a and I been known to mack I'm a muthafucka, I broke heart She gave it all to me, and I tore it about love right to the end But I broke your and, bitch, I do it again So young and tender, fine to get Short Dog all the time I take what I want, you can keep the You gets no love from Oakland, bitch That's the place I home the Oakland City players roam Game don't stop, to me Everybody fuckin the O.P.D cocaine, knockin it off Killed nigga, and he never got caught High-speed chases Can't make no money no way A bitch yelled "raid!", ain't true you laid down, and she fucked you Two days ago I didn't she existed But now baby is one of my bitches I care what you say Cause I catch bitches and get pay You don't what I'm sayin Punk-ass square got no game Hoes me, cause I'm a player They maybe I just might fuck em later I keep though, I don't work for free To be a true hoe you pay me I spend endless days and nights Plottin this shit to my money right I build in my mind, and it's all an act All I'm to do is keep my pockets fat With this game, and these funky beats Now here's a little from the Oakland streets You see, Tania had a boyfriend, his was Jack Always had the on their backs told Tania, "I love you so" But Jack's a mack, got several hoes One day she beeped him to say up He call back, cause she was only out to fuck She beeped Mike, she got mad She knew the bitches her boyfriend had called back, and he was on his way He just got the yesterday You see, Mike ain't on his girlfriend little bitch, I think her name is Lynn Mike the bills always in cash And if she ever got raw, he just beat ass It goes on y'all, so don't trip You gets no love from East Oakland, Got sprung, even though it's not A black man livin like rich people I got game from a hard-ass place on the map, right there in your face I see my people, all with joy Next day they're killin Can't say shit if you sho' shoot Cause muthafuckas will smoke boots You no love from Oakland, bitch You better try to me rich