This is a list of songs that mention Oakland.
| Year | Song | Album | Artist | Lyrics |
| 1952 | Oakland the Beautiful | - | Adeline E. Hewitt | - |
| 1963 | Oakland | Don't Blame PG&E, Pal | Goodtime Washboard 3 | see wiki page for Oakland (song) |
| 1994 | Brixton | B Sides and C Sides | Rancid | Chaos disorder looting and loiter From a blind man praying for some silence for some silence Take a loot on the moon not a foot in the room My best intentions always ended in a fight in a fight You can send me to hell expose me I'll tell Just take control and say what they're doing what they're doing Two-fifty dead the tribune read Oakland's going off like a bomb! I saw a new generation coming Under the smoke over Oakland In and out the streets are breathing Under the smoke over Oakland 1993 |
| September 28, 1993 | 93 'til Infinity | 93 'til Infinity | Souls of Mischief |
"We hailing from East Oakland, California, and sometimes it gets a little hectic out there, but right now, we gonna up you on how we just chill. |
| 1998 | Oakland Blackouts | Third Eye Vision | Hieroglyphics |
It could be fatal wait'll Del come back out and act out emotions in Oakland Blackouts |
| 2013 | From the Town | From the Town | Money B (feat Yukmouth, Del The Funky Homosapien, Shady Nate) |
Oakland. Oak-towne. |
| 1992 | Baby Got Back | Mack Daddy | Sir Mix-a-Lot |
(LA face with Oakland booty) |
| 1990 | I Want To Be Free |
You think oakland california is a city of punks ... Got my partners from oakland doin serious time ... I be in oakland california every day of my life ... What's really goin on in the oakland town |
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| 1974 | Back to Oakland | Back to Oakland | Tower of Power | |
| 1974 | Oakland Stroke | Back to Oakland | Tower of Power | |
| 1997 | Nothin' But Love | R U Still Down | 2pac | Straight outta Oakland, California where we spark it on ya |
| 1993 | Condition Oakland | 24 Hours Revenge Therapy | Jawbreaker | |
| 1998 | City of Dope | Thugged Out: The Albulation | Yukmouth |
Listen, I'm bout to lace yall motherfuckers |
| 2009 | Da Town | West Coast Don | Yukmouth | |
| 2002 | Down in Oakland | Transplants | Transplants | |
| 2008 | Oakland | Deified | Keak da Sneak | I been in Oakland all my life it's all I know |
| 1994 | Streets of Oakland | The Big Badass | Ant Banks |
Hangin' on the streets of Oakland All we do is smoke that weed And drink brew on the ave til we get keyed |
| I wrote this song in '94 | Dave Chappelle |
I'm talking about George W. Smith From city council, he ran in '93 Out in Oakland, you probably didn't hear about him |
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| 2013 | Telegraph Ave | Because of the Internet | Childish Gambino | But everything you do is so Oakland, so Oakland |
| 2011 | Gucci Gucci | Somethin' 'Bout Kreay | Kreayshawn | Oakland city representer, address me as your majesty |
| 2013 | III Telegraph Ave | Because the Internet | Childish Gambino |
I was making Japanese |
| 1965 | I see it Now | Frank Sinatra |
That year in Oakland High |
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| Air Algiers | Country Joe MacDonald |
I hopped on a plane Oakland New York Oakland New York New York to Marseilles. |
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| 2010 | Chinese Children | Cripple Crow | Devendra Banhart |
Yeah if I lived in Brooklyn, I'd still have Chinese children Yeah if I lived in Oakland, they'd still be Chinese children |
| 1994 | Somethin' About the Goldie in Me | The funky headhunter | MC Hammer |
Somethin' 'bout the Goldie in me |
| 1989 | Bombshell | Op Ivy |
Down in south Oakland, off east 14th its raining |
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| Bad News | Johnny Cash (and lots of others) |
Now they tried to hang me down in Oakland and they did in San Frisco |
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| 1998 | Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night | Steal This Album | The Coup |
Oakland do you want to ride? |
| 1994 | Side Kick | Let's Go | Rancid |
Down in Oakland |
| Disastrous | Del the Funkee Homosapian | Developing devious plans like Dick Dastardly / Casualties left with they face open / Just taste of Oakland when the place open | ||
| 2011 | Holiday in Oakland | Christmas Time Is Here (and Chanukah and The Solstice) | Lisa B. | see wiki page for Holiday in Oakland (song) |
| 2013 | I'm Really from Oakland Tho | Vell |
East Oakland, West Oakland, North Oakland But Lake Merritt got the bitches tho! |
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| 2014 (?) | I'm from Oakland | Young Chop | Fuck what you're hollin about, I'm From Oakland | |
| 1991 | Nuttin' Nis Funky | Nuttin' Nis Funky EP | Digital Underground |
We come from different cities and we're coast to coast ya see But right now we're based in Oakland |
| 1990 | Gutfest '89 | Sex Packets | Digital Underground |
Ok, we're on the air live from Lake Merritt in Oakland, California We'll have exclusive coverage of Gutfest '89 |
| 1996 |
Knee Deep (Deep as a Mutha Mix) |
George Clinton Greatest Funkin' Hits |
Funkadelic (featuring Digital Underground) |
So give us a pound, cause Digital Underground is out of here Yeah, like that, putting it down for Oakland town |
| 2014 | Because the Internet | Childish Gambino | [numerous mentions of Oakland] | |
| 1999 | Whiskey, Women, And Blackguarding | Rogue's March | American Steel |
Adeline Adeline sweet Adeline Bottle to the face cuts to the chase lets paint this town fucking black and blue |
| 2006 | San Francisco | Rebels, Rogues & Sworn Brothers | Lucero |
The Oakland apartments with bars underneath 'em The girlfriends and sweethearts with the bay inbetween 'em |
| 2013 | Home to Oakland | The Reto Sessions | Lisa-Marie Johnston | Dub Nation |
| 2016 | Drive North | Drive North | SWMRS | Oakland save me |
| 2004 | Homecoming | American Idiot | Green Day | We're back in the barrio, and to you and me, that's Jingletown |
| 2014 | Holiday | American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording Featuring Green Day | Green Day | The representative from Jingletown has the floor! |
| 2016 | Youngblood | Revolution Radio | Green Day | Fuck you I'm from Oakland |
| 2006 | Joaquin Miller (Went Walkin') | - | Kristen Caven | Walkin' in the Oakland Hills |
Too Short Songs (he gets a special table because, well, all of his songs are about Oakland!)
| 1988 | Oakland | Oakland | Too Short |
Oakland (Oh-oh-oh-Oakland) Straight from the West, Oakland |
| 1990 | Short Dog's In the House | Too Short |
Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's right |
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