| The Bay Area, yeah boy that’s where I’m from
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| I remember '85, that’s when the crack would come
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| A lot of niggas got rich, but most these niggas got stung
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| With years under they built, tryna feel what it felt
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| To be the nig, watch the ice that don’t melt;
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| '86 through '88 the game got bigger, we done hit the block
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| Swatting baby ninjas on our way to school
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| Park my shit around the corner so fly so cool
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| Young niggas, Brooklyn breed emcees, the Bay breed drug dealers
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| You got a youngster that flows, I got a young nigga
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| That push coke plus he got hoes, stay on the road
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| He can’t understand life but grab the mic and make the track explode…
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| And you know I’m from the Bay
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| Mothafuckin A-R-E-A
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| Yahmean
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| No other place I’d rather be…
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| And you know I tried to flee
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| To another mothafuckin scene
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| Yahmean
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| It wasn’t thug enough for me…
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| On my way to the port to drop my nigga Cormega
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| On Too $hort birthday plus all the Figaz together
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| The boys put us on the weight to hustle out up in the weather
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| Yup, '85 turned out, hit the corner here
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| Then hit me on my burn-out, when you niggas gon learn bout
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| The mothafuckin bay, it’s superthug where I stay
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| From Frisco, North Richmond to O-A-K
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| Central, South Richmond and EPA
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| Pittsburg got the coke for a price you must pay
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| Yeah boy, believe what they say
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| Ain’t nothing scarier than the Bay, high-speeds every day
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| Adolescents tuck weapons, niggas bleed every day
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| You got to have heart just to visit where I stay
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| And I been everywhere, ain’t nothing thugger than me
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| Yo, we live the shit that you see on TV
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| Word…
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| (hook)
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| Fuck 'em, one time, like hitters on the payroll
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| Hits on the streets, the radio don’t never play so
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| Don’t nobody know who the real niggas is
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| I dedicate this rap to the mothafuckin Figz
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| 3X Krazy Askari-X, The Click
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| Messcalene, JT The Bigga Figga
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| Tha Gamblaz, them my niggas, The Young D Boyz
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| Mac Mall, Neva Legal, Sick Insane, Lil Ric
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| Mr. Brave, The Hoodfellaz, Sincydal
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| San Quinn, Mac Dre, Willie Hen, Too $hort
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| Fatha Dom, Lil Bruce, Mac Shawn, RBL
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| 11/5, Guce, Sandman and P-O-D-E
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| Can’t forget G-O-V, and Seagram rest in peace
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| And Rappin' Ron rest in peace too, I got my ear
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| To the streets too, this for the Yay, and they never could
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| Defeat you; |
| The Ghetto Starz, Big Block and Richie Rich
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| 2Pac and 5150 was the shit
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| So was Digital Underground and Souls of Mischief, Spice-1
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| Poohman, Dangerous Dame, and Young Cellski
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| C-Bo, Yukmouth and Nutty-B, you out-of-towners
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| Study me, want me to show you how you should be
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| You niggas thugs now but we been that
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| And I’m the proof cause now it’s back where it begin at…
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| (Hook) |