From The Bay - The Jacka, Dee-Dee

The Bay Area, yeah boy that’s where I’m from

I remember '85, that’s when the crack would come

A lot of niggas got rich, but most these niggas got stung

With years under they built, tryna feel what it felt

To be the nig, watch the ice that don’t melt;

'86 through '88 the game got bigger, we done hit the block

Swatting baby ninjas on our way to school

Park my shit around the corner so fly so cool

Young niggas, Brooklyn breed emcees, the Bay breed drug dealers

You got a youngster that flows, I got a young nigga

That push coke plus he got hoes, stay on the road

He can’t understand life but grab the mic and make the track explode…

And you know I’m from the Bay

Mothafuckin A-R-E-A

Yahmean

No other place I’d rather be…

And you know I tried to flee

To another mothafuckin scene

Yahmean

It wasn’t thug enough for me…

On my way to the port to drop my nigga Cormega

On Too $hort birthday plus all the Figaz together

The boys put us on the weight to hustle out up in the weather

Yup, '85 turned out, hit the corner here

Then hit me on my burn-out, when you niggas gon learn bout

The mothafuckin bay, it’s superthug where I stay

From Frisco, North Richmond to O-A-K

Central, South Richmond and EPA

Pittsburg got the coke for a price you must pay

Yeah boy, believe what they say

Ain’t nothing scarier than the Bay, high-speeds every day

Adolescents tuck weapons, niggas bleed every day

You got to have heart just to visit where I stay

And I been everywhere, ain’t nothing thugger than me

Yo, we live the shit that you see on TV

Word…

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Fuck 'em, one time, like hitters on the payroll

Hits on the streets, the radio don’t never play so

Don’t nobody know who the real niggas is

I dedicate this rap to the mothafuckin Figz

3X Krazy Askari-X, The Click

Messcalene, JT The Bigga Figga

Tha Gamblaz, them my niggas, The Young D Boyz

Mac Mall, Neva Legal, Sick Insane, Lil Ric

Mr. Brave, The Hoodfellaz, Sincydal

San Quinn, Mac Dre, Willie Hen, Too $hort

Fatha Dom, Lil Bruce, Mac Shawn, RBL

11/5, Guce, Sandman and P-O-D-E

Can’t forget G-O-V, and Seagram rest in peace

And Rappin' Ron rest in peace too, I got my ear

To the streets too, this for the Yay, and they never could

Defeat you;

The Ghetto Starz, Big Block and Richie Rich

2Pac and 5150 was the shit

So was Digital Underground and Souls of Mischief, Spice-1

Poohman, Dangerous Dame, and Young Cellski

C-Bo, Yukmouth and Nutty-B, you out-of-towners

Study me, want me to show you how you should be

You niggas thugs now but we been that

And I’m the proof cause now it’s back where it begin at…

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