Ain't no love in Oakland, Niggas always talkin 'I love you' But ain't no love,
Now it's a shame, I can't be saved by John the I gotta be a pimp or dope Cause in town, it's goin on And brothers doin that live too long So my option, do it or not Break a hoe, sell a ki, just don't get if I do, I'm goin to jail On a one-way ticket to a prison So why the crime? Don't ask me Went to school everyday, and I can't read I count like a champ, now ask me Why everyday does the task jack me The story's been one million times About a boy up to a life of crime I heard it before, you it too But now, homeboy, it's me and you You see, people try to call us filthy Even though we live better and make mo' Than do, I'm not a no-good thug Standin on the corner drugs And just remember, this multiple choice a college degree you only got your voice You gotta talk for yours, or get 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 won't talk, but it looks back Everytime I dip my stack I'm buyin cars, jewelries, and mobile Things I couldn't get with a school diploma It's alright, cause I help myself You should know, I can't do nothin else And you watch out for the day you lock me up and throw that key away Cause be back on parole Ain't changed nothing, I'm ready to roll I go to now, but just to front Still servin dopefiends what want 5 to 10, 10 to 20 And I just keep on money I hope you think my story's amazin I it to a kid in the ghetto, it won't faze him So blackmen die for drugs I back on the way life was Before rock cocaine started thangs And drive-by was a normal thang Before brothers Benzes, used to drive Mustangs 12 Years later, and I'm in the game All my life all I wanted was a few If I was pimpin or slingin at the liquor nothin but street life, fuck that school All the squares up there ain't even Plus my partners at the sell coke all day Hit the mall players, spendin fat-ass bank Junior high wasn't shit but a place to wasn't learnin how to read and write I'm just down the street all alone as hell, my mind is gone I'm thinkin bout some brand-new and I'm broke I know I be a fiend if I smoke coke But if I go back to school and get 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 right He said, "You owe me a g, I you a week You fuck up my money, cop no plead in the Oak ain't no love, $hort" I knew then I couldn't sell that coke I was young, it was hard to tell If I up and be rich as hell See, I was I knew all the shit Big bank on my tips But I never had a big bank, not back I kicked and watched all my friends Make big money, in my face And if you ever them, they be on your case You go under, six feet You gets no from the Oaktown
I drive my top everyday a movie star around all night in old towed up cars And if you stop me, ain't no tellin what you in my trunk Gotta live like this, cause I ain't no So break the dank and roll up that shit the muthafucka, take a fat-ass hit My fingers all sticky the residue Don't fuck with me, I won't with you Cause life is give and take In the town where the strong the fake The wild wild west, that's the Suckers take a bite, and don't taste The California lifestyle that I Mack hoes every chance I get Like a drop SL, three black I'm a pimp, a player and I been known to I'm a muthafucka, I broke your She it all to me, and I tore it apart Talked about love to the end But I broke heart and, bitch, I do it again So young and tender, also Tryin to get Short Dog all the I take what I want, you can the rest You no love from East Oakland, bitch the place I call home Where the Oakland City roam Game don't stop, to me Everybody with the O.P.D Slingin cocaine, it off Killed nigga, and he never got caught High-speed everyday Can't no money no other way A yelled "raid!", that ain't true Cause you down, and she fucked you Two days ago I didn't she existed But now baby is just one of my I don't what you say Cause I catch and straight get pay You don't care what I'm Punk-ass square got no game Hoes love me, I'm a player They think I just might fuck em later I keep mackin though, I don't for free To be a hoe you gotta pay me I endless days and endless nights Plottin this shit to my money right I stages in my mind, and it's all an act All I'm tryin to do is my pockets fat With this pimp game, and these beats Now here's a little story from the Oakland You see, Tania had a boyfriend, his was Jack Always had the bitches on backs told Tania, "I love you so" But Jack's a mack, got several hoes One day she beeped him to say up He didn't back, cause she was only out to fuck She Mike, cause she got mad She knew about the her boyfriend had called back, and he was on his way He just got the pussy You see, Mike ain't on his girlfriend Fine little bitch, I her name is Lynn Mike paid the bills 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 Oakland, bitch Got sprung, even though it's not A young black man livin like people I got this game from a place It's on the map, there in your face I see my people, all filled joy day they're killin homeboys Can't say shit if you can't shoot Cause will smoke them boots You gets no love from Oakland, You better try to make me