Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right up, East Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's
Oakland, California, West life You either play the game or you the pipe I a rapper at the age fourteen No gold ropes, no rings
But look at me now, ten years Ask any MC if I rap See I'm in Fresno, even the big O San Diego to Sacramento
They'll tell you yes, you go And I bet my life one say no Ain't nothing like a Too fan I ain't tripping, you can it again
fight the feeling, life is me I rock in Nashville, Tennessee It "Hee Haw," so don't laugh At the good ol' getting autographs
In Cincinnati, I know you I got fined for the words true, baby, so so unique Might slap your man or just your freak
I come to your town, I'm not I your name and your telephone number You think I'm faking, but call We got one night to do it all
I know baby such a pity Tomorrow night, we hit city macking in the game is all we do Me and the boys called "The Crew"
I used to be local till I signed with Too $hort then nationwide I to Georgia with the Too $hort sound I down like Bobby Brown
I said a rap and took me to jail Pulled out my and made bail is my story, it could not wait It all started out in the Golden
California, I was born and raised I used to play the in my younger days I just hit beat any way I can Smooth 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
From Chicago, to From Mississippi, to Louisiana, even Females, me sexist
But don't they it, you know me Freak in a room trying to blow me engine, engine, number nine Homies run a train, standing in
If that train off the track Then my you will catch the clap Colorado, to Arizona All the way back home to
In Chattanooga, they the tip Short Dog in the house, I'm flip clip, or playing pool I can't it I'm so damn cool
Call me 'Dog' or leave me I'm riding in a Fleetwood Chrome With Too Clean, behind the I'm shotgun, rapping for real
Total in the back, give me supersede They like to roll 'em fat you know we ride To the y'all, and it don't stop It goes on I don't stop rapping
Now you know, but the Dog in me You make to me and I still act stingy Oh should I pay you? You must be I buy you and I sure ain't renting
I said "I you" 'cause you gave me head I love you when we got out the bed If I could love you, you 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 Magic City and the dance naked
I'm somewhat of a by the way I rap But I'm living like an Oak town I'm in the y'all, I'm like peeser, y'all Rat heads get nothing but cheese,
Or get slapped, put up your I kick you in your ass with my Nike Some rappers try to be just Too $hort Can hang with the Dog, you'd better stay on the
In Minnesota, Virginia Wisconsin, I got Atlanta, Little Louisville, it don't
Kansas City, I rock the house in St. Louis Detroit, like Oakland It's a thing, and I'm a black man
To all my in the U.S.A. Too $hort don't even play Woofers in the trunk, the beat I cross the and hit third street
Years ago, I rocked joint I say up to my homies from Hunter's Point We go a long way back, it's always like that In the days that Dog was so young at the rap I'm in the
Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right up, East Oakland, yeah, that's right