Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right
Oakland, California, Coast life You either the game or you smoke the pipe I became a at the age fourteen No gold ropes, no diamond
But at me now, ten years later Ask any MC if I rap See I'm in Fresno, even the big O San Diego to Sacramento
They'll you yes, wherever you go And I bet my life one say no Ain't nothing a Too $hort fan I ain't tripping, you can play it
Don't the feeling, life is me I rock in Nashville, Tennessee It wasn't "Hee Haw," so don't At the good ol' boys getting
In Cincinnati, I you heard I got fined for the words It's true, baby, so so slap your man or just thump your freak
I come to town, I'm not under I want your name and your telephone You think I'm faking, but I'll We only got one to do it all
I know it's such a pity Tomorrow night, we hit another Cold macking in the is all we do Me and the boys "The Dangerous Crew"
I used to be local till I with Jive Too $hort then went I went to Georgia with the Too sound I went down like Bobby
I said a rap and they took me to Pulled out my and made bail This is my story, it could not It all started out in the State
California, where I was and raised I used to play the in my younger days I just hit beat any way I can high-stepping in the marching band
I in my drum and I started to rap Now I make, make my bank so fat It's Too $hort, on the mic Pennsylvania, can you see the
Chicago, to Indiana From Mississippi, to Louisiana, even Females, call me
But don't they it, you know me Freak in a room trying to blow me Like engine, engine, number run a train, standing in line
If train jumps off the track Then my brother you catch the clap Colorado, to Arizona All the way home to California
In Chattanooga, know the tip Dog in the house, I'm that flip Getting clip, or playing I can't help it I'm so cool
Call me or leave me alone I'm riding in a Fleetwood Chrome With Too Clean, behind the I'm riding shotgun, for real
Total boss in the back, me supersede They like to roll 'em fat you know we ride To the y'all, and it don't stop It goes on cause I don't rapping
Now you know, but the Dog in me You make love to me and I still act Oh should I pay you? You must be I didn't buy you and I sure renting
I said "I love you" 'cause you gave me I didn't you when we got out the bed If I love you, you know I would But what you giving, ain't all good
A southern hospitality better try to get away from me I love money, and I can't fake it I go to City and the girls dance naked
I'm of a hero by the way I rap But I'm like an Oak town mack I'm in the y'all, I'm like peeser, y'all Rat get nothing but cheese, y'all
Or get slapped, put up dukes I kick you in your ass my Nike boots Some try to be just like Too $hort Can hang the Dog, you'd better stay on the porch
In Minnesota, Virginia Wisconsin, I got Atlanta, Rock Louisville, it stop
Kansas City, I rock the house in East St. Detroit, it's like a black thing, and I'm a black man
To all my in the U.S.A. Too baby don't even play Woofers in the trunk, the beat I cross the bridge and hit street
Years ago, I rocked that I say what's up to my homies from Hunter's We go a long way back, it's always been that In the days Short Dog was so young at the rap I'm in the
Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right up, East Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right up, East Oakland, yeah, that's right