Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right
Oakland, California, West Coast You either play the or you smoke the pipe I became a rapper at the age No ropes, no diamond rings
But at me now, ten years later Ask any MC if I rap See I'm known in Fresno, the big O San Diego to Sacramento
They'll you yes, wherever you go And I bet my won't one say no nothing like a Too $hort fan I ain't tripping, you can play it
Don't the feeling, life is me I rock shows in Nashville, It wasn't "Hee Haw," so laugh At the good ol' boys getting
In Cincinnati, I you heard I got fined for the cuss It's true, baby, so so Might slap man or just thump your freak
I to your town, I'm not under I want name and your telephone number You I'm faking, but I'll call We only got one to do it all
I know it's such a pity Tomorrow night, we hit city macking in the game is all we do Me and the called "The Dangerous Crew"
I used to be local till I with Jive Too $hort went nationwide I went to with the Too $hort sound I went down like Brown
I a rap and they took me to jail out my bank and made bail This is my story, it not wait It all started out in the Golden
California, where I was and raised I to play the drum in my younger days I hit that beat any way I can Smooth in the marching band
I turned in my drum and I 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 Mississippi, to Alabama Louisiana, even Females, call me
But don't they 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 home to
In Chattanooga, know the tip Dog in the house, I'm that flip Getting clip, or pool I can't help it I'm so cool
Call me or leave me alone I'm in a Cadillac Fleetwood Chrome Too Clean, behind the wheel I'm riding shotgun, for real
Total in the back, give me supersede They like to 'em fat cause you know we ride To the beat y'all, and it don't It on cause I don't stop rapping
Now you know, but the Dog in me You love to me and I still act stingy Oh should I pay you? You be tripping I didn't buy you and I sure renting
I said "I you" 'cause you gave me head I didn't you when we got out the bed If I could love you, you know I But what you giving, ain't all good
A little southern better try to get away from me I money, and I just can't fake it I go to Magic City and the 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 ass with my Nike boots Some rappers try to be just Too $hort Can hang the Dog, you'd better stay on the porch
In Minnesota, Beach Wisconsin, I got Atlanta, Little Louisville, it stop
City, Missouri I rock the house in St. Louis Detroit, like Oakland a black thing, and I'm a black man
To all my in the U.S.A. Too $hort baby even play Woofers in the trunk, blasting the I cross the bridge and hit street
Years ago, I that joint I say up to my homies from Hunter's Point We go a long way back, it's been like that In the days Short Dog was so young at the rap I'm in the
Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's