[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