Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right
Oakland, California, West Coast You play 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 known in Fresno, the big O From San to Sacramento
They'll tell you yes, you go And I bet my won't one say no Ain't nothing like a Too fan I tripping, you can play it again
Don't fight the feeling, is me I rock shows in Nashville, It wasn't "Hee Haw," so don't At the ol' boys getting autographs
In Cincinnati, I know you I got for the cuss words true, baby, so so unique Might slap your man or just thump freak
I come to town, I'm not under I your name and your telephone number You I'm faking, but I'll call We got one night to do it all
I know baby it's such a Tomorrow night, we hit another Cold macking in the is all we do Me and the boys called "The Crew"
I used to be local till I signed Jive Too $hort then went I went to Georgia the Too $hort sound I went like Bobby Brown
I a rap and they took me to jail Pulled out my bank and made This is my story, it could not It all out in the Golden State
California, where I was born and I to play the drum in my younger days I hit that beat any way I can high-stepping in the marching band
I turned in my drum and I to rap Now beats I make, make my so fat Too $hort, on the mic tonight Pennsylvania, can you see the
From Chicago, to Mississippi, to Alabama Louisiana, even Females, me sexist
But don't love it, you know me Freak in a room trying to blow me engine, engine, number nine Homies run a train, in line
If that train off the track my brother you will catch the clap From Colorado, to All the way back to California
In Chattanooga, know the tip Short Dog in the house, I'm flip Getting clip, or playing I help it I'm so damn cool
me 'Dog' or leave me alone I'm riding in a Cadillac Chrome With Too Clean, the wheel I'm riding shotgun, for real
boss 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 cause I don't rapping
Now you know, but the Dog in me You love to me and I still act stingy Oh should I pay You must be tripping I didn't buy you and I ain't renting
I said "I love you" you gave me head I didn't love you we got out the bed If I could love you, you I would But what you giving, ain't all good
A little hospitality You'd try to get away from me I love money, and I just can't it I go to Magic City and the girls naked
I'm somewhat of a 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 heads get nothing but cheese,
Or get slapped, put up your I you in your ass with my Nike boots rappers try to be just like Too $hort Can hang the Dog, you'd better stay on the porch
In Minnesota, Beach Wisconsin, I got Atlanta, Little Louisville, it don't
Kansas City, I the house in East St. Louis Detroit, it's like a black 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, blasting the I cross the bridge and hit street
Years ago, I rocked that I say what's up to my homies from Point We go a long way back, always been like that In the that Short Dog was so young at the rap I'm in the
Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right up, East Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right