Oakland Stroke-Tony! Toni! Toné!

[00:09.522]I got something to say, man, you dig? [00:11.821]I mean, you cats been up here rapping [00:13.336]Ain’t said nothing about the real thing, you know what I mean? [00:18.508]Individually picking out the brothers that jam [00:20.807]Commonly known are people like Sly and Graham [00:23.053]Something kinda special about the grooves they wrote [00:25.457]They all had the flavor of the Oakland Stroke [00:27.860]That’s the bass drum kickin’, the high-hat lickin’ [00:30.028]A groove so hard it makes your feet kickin’ [00:32.510]To a dope groove, I mean, a fresh groove [00:34.652]It’s a guaranteed hit to make your body move [00:37.081]Others try to hang but they just can’t cope [00:39.537]They must come to realize, it’s the Oakland Stroke [00:48.601]Yo, miss thang… [00:51.292]Uh-huh, uh-huh [00:54.191]Can’t cope with the Oakland Stroke [00:56.725]Uh-huh, uh-huh…Oakland, Californ-i-a [01:00.931]If you get the nerve then you might wanna try [01:02.995]You can’t hang, you’re getting mud in your eye [01:05.189]So don’t even flirt or you might get hurt [01:07.514]And you’ll wind up looking like dirt [01:09.917]From a dope groove, I mean, a fresh groove [01:12.111]It’s a guaranteed hit to make your body move [01:14.384]Others try to hang but they just can’t cope [01:16.761]When are they going to realize, it’s the Oakland Stroke [01:19.504](Everybody knows, it’s time to Oakland Stroke) [01:28.699]Uh-huh, uh-huh [01:31.364]You can’t cope with the Oakland Stroke [01:33.062]Uh-huh, uh-huh [01:35.413]Make your body move, you can’t cope with the Oakland Stroke [01:39.618](“Yeah y’all, come on”) [01:40.663]Uh-huh, uh-huh [01:41.813]Now give me something… [01:42.805](“Yeah y’all…”) [01:50.877]That’s right [01:56.911]Uh-huh, uh-huh [02:01.065]Well, to sum it up, all I’m really trying to say [02:03.442]Is that the Oaktown brothers like to do it one way [02:06.002]Funky, greasy, nasty, hard [02:08.353]And never once do we drop our guard [02:10.600]When the bass starts lickin’, the high-hats kick in [02:13.473]The guaranteed hit to make feet start kickin’ [02:15.302]Others wanna hang but can’t cope [02:17.783]It’s the Oakland Stroke [02:21.989]What, what, what, what did you say that groove was again? [02:24.601]What’d you say that groove was, man? [02:27.396](“Boy, you shoulda known by now…”) The Oakland Stroke [02:29.695](Everybody knows, it’s time to Oakland Stroke) [02:46.022]We gon’ ride it out this way… [02:48.111]Uh-huh, uh-huh [02:50.724]You can’t cope with the Oakland Stroke [02:57.437]Uh-huh, uh-huh [02:59.867]You can’t cope with the Oakland Stroke [03:04.569](“I know you’re gonna dig this”) [03:42.655]Let, let, let me hear you say, “Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na” [03:46.809](“Yeah y’all come on”) ”Na-na-na-na-na-na-na” [03:52.764]Let me hear you say, “Ah”…”Oh”…”Uh…uh…uh-uh, OW!” [04:05.773]You can’t cope with the Oakland Stroke [04:07.262]Uh-huh, uh-huh [04:19.253]You can’t hang… [04:20.716]Uh-huh, uh-huh [04:24.085]You can’t cope with the Oakland Stroke