You think Oakland California is a city of punks
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It only takes a second, to pop the trunk
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And just like that you know it's real
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You're in the right damn town to get killed
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It's all about the game, and nothin else
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You come out here, you better watch yourself
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Cause you can wear what you want, even blue or red
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But cross the wrong brothers, and end up dead
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You catch a body full of bullets, and get blasted
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Tryin to be a gangsta but you just ain't lastin
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This little town is gettin wild as hell
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Check the penetentiaries and all the jails
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If they could lock us all up that would be just fine
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Got my partners from Oakland doin serious time
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You can't argue with the truth it's hard to be black
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But it's a mindgame, and you gotta deal with that
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I wake up everyday and I just can't wait
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To make mo money, cause back in the days
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when I rapped, I did the same damn thing I do now
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Grab the microphone, and show you how
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But I was broke, the only thing I had was game
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I started makin money and knew things would change
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Bought a Benz, thought it might earn respect
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But the OPD, found it hard to accept
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I got jacked by the Task and jacked by the Vice
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Face down on the ground keep my hands in sight
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Put the handcuffs on backseat I'm in it
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Illegal search for about thirty minutes
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Askin me, where's the dope
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Where's my gun, but I don't know
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I said I'm rappin, they laugh like I told a joke
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And to this day they think I'm sellin coke
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I want to be free! (and that's the truth) Ohhh yeahhh
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I want to be free! Ohhh yeahhh
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I be in Oakland California every day of my life
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bass so hard you think I'm smokin a pipe
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And if I don't smoke it, I gots to grind
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Searched all my stuff, and all you find
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is a pocket full of money count seven G's
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Now you wanna think I'm sellin keys
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Cause I'm a black man, but I run my own business
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So why the police wanna send me to prison
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They see a brother makin major cash
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They knock a patch out his black ass
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And that's the truth, you can't argue you at all
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Tryin to give you ten years for a phone call
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Ain't even trippin on the dank smoke
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Cause all they wanna find, is guns and coke
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In court all the time tryin to fight it
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We get rich, we get indeibted
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So what's the problem Officer this time?
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Is havin big money bein black a crime?
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Or did you take me to jail, to teach me a lesson
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Charge me with somethin, or just ask questions
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About the brothers I hang around
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What's really goin on in the Oakland town
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Tell me who went broke, and who got rich
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But Too $hort baby just ain't no snitch
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You say you're just doin your job
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But you're gettin on my nerves, just like Bob
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Everytime I hit a corner, I see you
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Always tellin brothers what to do
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You lock me up cause I don't know how to act
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But I'm down for mine so I be talkin back
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And when I do, you treat me bad as hell
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I'm sick of spendin nights in jail
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I want to be free! (and that's the truth) Ohhh yeahhh
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I want to be free! Ohhh yeahhh
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Got out of jail about fo'-fifteen
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Walkin down the street like a broke dopefiend
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Had a pocket full of money tryin to play the role
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Benz got towed and I was hella cold
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But I ain't trippin, I'm gettin used to it now
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Handcuffed your boy took me straight downtown
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for three warrants, had to catch me sooner or later
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Cause the five-oh's always tryin to jack a playa
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for no reason, wasn't doin nothin wrong
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You think I'm lyin, singin that same ol song
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Well I'm a black man, ridin in a Benz
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How in the hell did I make these ends? Here we go
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I pull over to the right
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Stop the engine keep my hands in sight
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I start cursin, cause it don't make sense
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Why would I run and try to jump a fence
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If I was plannin, a smooth getaway
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I never woulda stopped in the first place
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You'd be high speed chasin me but this time you ain't
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Cause all I got on me is a big fat bank
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And I hope I don't get robbed by you know who
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Make me donate some G's to the boys in blue
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And if I sue, I won't get nothin back
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But I ain't mad... I'm just black...
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I want to be free! Ohhh yeahhh
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I want to be free! Ohhh yeahhh
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