I am going to be honest here. The music artist Kehlani really put Oakland, California on the map for me! Her interlude "Runnin" features the lyrics "something about my city, Oakland girls so damn hood but we're so damn pretty" and ever since the first listen, my lil curiosity for Oakland has grown and grown. I spent a few years living in New York and really got to meet so many West Coast natives, quite a few of which, were born and raised in Oakland and repped their city HARD.
