Let it gonLet the good take holdnI'm ah brother from the WestnWho was blessed with a soulnLet me tell you 'bout a placenYou probably don't even knownWe still live in CalinGotta style culturalnWe wasnKnown from the 60'snFrom panthers to hippiesnNow were known fornMurders pimps and three-sixty'snSide shows high speed chases toonAnd a crack epidemic that will turn ya bluenAnd an Aids epidemic that can end ya toonIt's the Yay baby brother and I thought you knewnOakland to VallejonVallejo to the ZaynThe Zay to the Sko'nAKA as the BaynUnique so to speaknIn a whole lotta waysnWe hardly get the love â??cause we close to LAnWe got our own slangnBut everybody took itnNow we goin' dumb down the Av drivin' crookednn[Chorus:]nThis the way nIn the Bay (in the Bay)nIn the Bay [Repeat: x1]nnIn ya little kuddy cold from the Northern PacificnBeach always coldnSo don't get the game twistednThugs reprocessed to the death packin' biscuitsnWeed almost legal the trees it's terrificnWe got nCannibis clubsnFilipinos and BlacksnLatinos from all over the mapnChinese and VietnamesenSo don't get jackednSamoans Indians Tongans Thai'snIt's the Bay homienAnd we multipliesnWe never act shy when it's time to ridenAnd we claim 2 Pac as a source of pridenSaid we claim 2 Pac as a source of pridenLet it gonLet me bless a flow my peoplenHere we go here we go here we here we yonFrom the streets to beachnFlat lands to peacenTo the freaks in the deeps drivin' by (beep beep)nTo the heat meet the seatnTo the cops from the beatnTo the rich to sweetnTo the poor to the weaknTo the youth and the beastnHP 3rd Street n(3 x's) telegraph to the Av nNorth to the deep EastnnTo the youth and the beastnHP 3rd StreetnTelegraph to the AvnNorth to the deep Eastnn[Chorus]nThis the way nIn the Bay (in the Bay)nIn the Bay [Repeat: x1]