Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right
Oakland, California, West life You play the game or you smoke the pipe I became a rapper at the age No gold ropes, no rings
But look at me now, ten later 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
Don't fight the feeling, is me I rock shows in Nashville, It wasn't "Hee Haw," so laugh At the ol' boys getting autographs
In Cincinnati, I know you I got fined for the cuss true, baby, so so unique Might your man or just thump your freak
I to your town, I'm not under 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 night, we hit another city Cold in the game is all we do Me and the boys called "The Crew"
I to be local till I signed with Jive Too $hort went nationwide I went to Georgia with the Too sound I went down like Bobby
I a rap and they took me to jail Pulled out my bank and made This is my story, it not wait It all started out in the Golden
California, where I was born and I used to play the in my younger days I just hit that any way I can high-stepping in the marching band
I in my drum and I started to rap Now beats I 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, me sexist
But don't they it, you know me Freak nasty in a room trying to me engine, engine, number nine Homies run a train, in line
If train jumps off the track Then my brother you will catch the From Colorado, to All the way back to California
In Chattanooga, know the tip Dog in the house, I'm that flip Getting clip, or playing I help it I'm so damn cool
Call me or leave me alone I'm riding in a Cadillac Chrome With Too Clean, the wheel I'm riding shotgun, rapping for
Total in the back, give me supersede They like to roll 'em fat you know we ride To the beat y'all, and it stop It goes on I don't stop rapping
Now you know, but the Dog in me You love to me and I still act stingy Oh I pay you? You must be tripping I didn't buy you and I 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 you giving, ain't all that good
A southern hospitality You'd better try to get from me I money, and I just can't fake it I go to Magic City and the girls naked
I'm of a hero by the way I rap But I'm living like an Oak mack I'm in the house y'all, I'm peeser, y'all Rat get nothing but cheese, y'all
Or get slapped, put up dukes I kick you in ass with my Nike boots Some rappers try to be just Too $hort Can hang with the Dog, you'd better stay on the
In Minnesota, Beach Wisconsin, I got Atlanta, Rock Louisville, it stop
Kansas City, I rock the house in St. Louis Detroit, it's Oakland It's a 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, blasting the I cross the bridge and hit street
Years ago, I rocked joint I say what's up to my homies from Point We go a way back, it's always been like that In the days that Short Dog was so at the rap I'm in the
Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right