Tony! Toni! Ton! — Oakland Stroke Brixton Bass Mix

[Verse 1: D'Wayne Wiggins] Individually picking out the brothers that jam Commonly known are people like Sly and Graham Something kinda special about the grooves they wrote They all had the flavor of the Oakland Stroke That's the bass drum kickin’, the high-hat lickin' A groove so hard it makes your feet kickin' To a dope groove, I mean, a fresh groove It’s a guaranteed hit to make your body move Others try to hang but they just can't cope They must come to realize, it's the Oakland Stroke [Interlude: D'Wayne Wiggins, Vanessa Williams] Give me the girls (Uh-huh, uh-huh) (Uh-huh, uh-huh) (Oakland, Cali-forn-i-a) [Verse 2: D'Wayne Wiggins] If you get the nervе then you might wanna try You can't hang, you're getting mud in your еye So don't even flirt or you might get hurt And you'll wind up looking like dirt From a dope groove, I mean, a fresh groove It's a guaranteed hit to make your body move Others try to hang but they just can’t cope When are they going to realize, it’s the Oakland Stroke [Bridge: D'Wayne Wiggins, Vanessa Williams, Raphael Saadiq] Everybody knows, it's time to Oakland Stroke Everybody knows, it’s time to Oakland Stroke (Uh-huh, uh-huh) You can't cope with the Oakland Stroke (Uh-huh, uh-huh) Make your body move Everybody knows, it's time to Oakland Stroke Everybody knows, it's time to Oakland Stroke (Uh-huh, uh-huh) You can’t cope with the Oakland Stroke (Uh-huh, uh-huh) Make your body move [Verse 3: D'Wayne Wiggins] To sum it up, all I'm really trying to say Is that the Oaktown brothers like to do it one way Funky, greasy, nasty, hard And never once do we drop our guard When the bass starts lickin', the high-hats kick in The guaranteed hit to make feet start kickin' Others wanna hang, they can't cope It's the Oakland Stroke [Interlude] What, what, what, what did you say that groove was again? What did you say that groove was, man? ("Boy, you shoulda known by now") [Bridge: D'Wayne Wiggins, Raphael Saadiq, Vanessa Williams] The Oakland Stroke Everybody knows, it's time to Oakland Stroke Everybody knows, it's time to Oakland Stroke And we gon' ride it out this way You can't cope with the Oakland Stroke You can't cope with the Oakland Stroke You can't cope with the Oakland Stroke You can't cope Everybody knows, it's time to Oakland Stroke Everybody knows, it's time to Oakland Stroke Now let me hear you say "Na na na na na na na na" "Na na na na na na na" Let me hear you say "Uh, oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, ah, ah, ah" [Outro: D'Wayne Wiggins, Vanessa Williams] You can't cope with the Oakland Stroke (Uh-huh, uh-huh) You can't cope with the Oakland Stroke (Uh-huh, uh-huh) You can't cope with the Oakland Stroke (Uh-huh, uh-huh) You can't hang (Uh, uh, uh-huh, uh-huh)