To Live and Die In L.A.

Street Science, you're on the air

What do you feel when you hear a record like 2Pac's new one?

I love 2Pac's new record

Right, but don't you feel like that creates, uh, tension between East and West?

He's talking about killing people, "I had sex with your wife," and not in those words (But he's)

But he's talking about, "I wanna see you deceased"

I love LA

No doubt, to live and die in LA

What you say about Los Angeles? (California)

Still the only place for me

It never rains in Southern California

To live and die in LA, where everyday, we try to fatten our pockets

Us **** hustle for the cash, so it's hard to knock it

Everybody got they own thing, currency chasin'

Worldwide through the hard times, worryin' faces

Shed tears as we bury **** close to heart

What was a friend, now a ghost in the dark

Cold hearted 'bout it, **** got smoked by a fiend

Tryna floss on him, blind to a broken man's dream

A hard lesson, court cases keep me guessin'

Plea bargain ain't an option now, so I'm stressin'

Cost me more to be free than a life in the pen

Makin' money off of cuss words, writin' again

Learn how to think ahead, so I fight with my pen

Late night down Sunset likin' the scene

What's the worst they could do to a ****?

Got me lost in Hell, to live and die in LA on bail

My angel sing

To live and die in LA, it's the place to be

And the angels go

You've got to be there to know it

What everybody wanna see

To live and die in LA

To live and die in LA, it's the place to be

You've got to be there to know it

What everybody wanna see

It's the city of angels and constant danger

South Central LA can't get no stranger

Full of drama like a soap opera on the curb

Watchin' the ghetto bird helicopters, I observe

So many **** gettin' three strikes, tossed in jail

I swear the pen' right across from Hell, I can't cry

'Cause it's home now, I'm just a **** on his own now

Livin' life thug style, so I can't smile

Writin' to my peoples when they ask for pictures

Thinkin' Cali just fun and bitches

Better learn about the dress code, B's and C's

All them other **** copycats, these is G's

I love Cali like I love women

'Cause every **** in LA got a little bit of thug in him

We might fight amongst each other, but I promise you this

We'll burn this bitch down, get us pissed

To live and die in LA

To live and die in LA, it's the place to be

Let my angel sing

You've got to be there to know it

What everybody wanna see

And my angels go

To live and die in LA, it's the place to be

To live and die in LA

You've got to be there to know it

What everybody wanna see

It wouldn't be LA without Mexicans

Black love, brown pride in the sets again

Pete Wilson tryna see us all broke, I'm on some bullshit

Out for everything they owe, remember KDay?

Weekends, Crenshaw, MLK

Automatics rang free, **** lost they way

Gang signs being shown, ****, love your hood

But recognize and it's all good

Where the weed at? **** getting shermed out

Snoop Dogg in this motherfucker burned out

MOB, Big Suge in the low-low, bounce and turn

Dogg Pound in the Lex with a ounce to burn

Got them Watts **** with me, O.F.T.B.

They got some hash, took a stash, left the rest for me

Neckbone, Tray, Heron, Buntry, too

Big Rock got knocked, but this one's for you

I hit the studio and drop a jewel, hopin' it pay

Gettin' high, watchin' time fly

To live and die in LA

To live and die in LA, it's the place to be

Let my angel sing

You've got to be there to know it

What everybody wanna see

And my angel go

To live and die in LA, it's the place to be

To live and die in LA

You've got to be there to know it

What everybody wanna see

Let my angel sing

This go out for 92.3 and 106

All the radio stations that be bumpin' my shit

Makin' my shit sells quadruple, quatraple platinum

This go out to all the magazines that supported me

All the real motherfuckers

All the stores the mom and pop spots

A&R people, all y'all motherfuckers

LA, California Love part motherfuckin' two

Without gay ass Dre

To live and die in LA, ooh

To live and die in LA