[First Verse]
Let it go let the good take hold, I'm a brother from the west who was blessed with the soul.
Let me tell you bout' a place you probably don't know, we still live in Cali got a style cultural.
We was known in the sixties for panthers and hippies, now we known for murder, pimps, and 360's. Sideshows, high speed chases too, and a crack epidemic that will turn ya blue, and a AIDS epidemic that'll end ya too. It's the Yay baby brother and I thought you knew?
Oakland to Vallejo, Vallejo to the Zae, Zae to the Sco AKA'd as the Bay.
Unique so to speak in a whole lotta ways, we hardly get the love cuz we close to L.A. We got our own slang, but everybody took it, now we goin' dumb down the Ave drivin crooked.
(Chorus)
It's the way
(It's the waay)
In the Bay
(In the Baay)
In the Baa-aaay
In the Baa-aa-aaa-aaaay
Oooooo!
[Second Verse]
We a little cutty cove on the Northern Pacific, beach always cold so don't get the game twisted.
Thugs represent to the death packin' biscuts, weed almost legal the trees is terrific.
We got cannabis clubs, Filipinos and Blacks, Latinos from all over the map. Chinese and Vietnamese so don't get jacked, Samoans, Indians, Tongans, Thais. It's the Bay homie and we multiply, and we never act shy when it's time to ride. And we claim 2
Pac as a source of pride, I say we claim 2
Pac as a source of pride.
Let it go, let me bless the flow my people here we go, here we go, her we-here we here we go.
From the streets to the beach, Flatlands to Pitts,to the freaks in the jeaps drivin by 'beep beep'. To the heat, to sweet,to the cops from the beat to the Rich to the sweet to the poor and the weak, to the youth in the beast, H.P. 3rd St. Telegraph to the Ave. North, to the deep East.
Telegraph to the Ave. North, to the deep East.Telegraph to the Ave. North, to the deep East.
To the youth in the beast, H.P. 3rd St. Telegraph to the Ave. North, to the deep East.
(Chorus x2)
It's the way
(It's the waay)
In the Bay
(In the Baay)
In the Baa-aaay
In the Baa-aa-aaa-aaaay
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