[00:00.78]“Street Science, you’re on the air. What do you feel when you hear a record like Tupac’s new one?”“
[00:05.68]“I love Tupac’s new record”“
[00:06.80]“Right, but don’t you feel like that creates - ahh- tension between East and West?
[00:11.92]I mean, he’s talking about killing people, ‘I had sex with your wife’ - and not in those words.
[00:17.32]But he’s talking about, ‘I wanna see you deceased’…”
[00:31.05]To live and die in L.A., where everyday we try to fatten our pockets
[00:34.42]Us niggas hustle for the cash so it’s hard to knock it
[00:37.52]Everybody got they own thang, currency chasin’
[00:40.15]Worldwide through the hard times, worrying faces
[00:42.95]Shed tears as we bury niggas close to heart
[00:45.75]Who was a friend is now a ghost in the dark
[00:47.94]Cold hearted bout it, nigga got smoked by a fiend
[00:50.63]Trying to floss on him blind to a broken man’s dream
[00:53.39]A hard lesson
[00:54.59]Court cases keep me guessin
[00:56.15]Plea bargain ain’t an option now, so I’m stressin
[00:58.81]Cost me more to be free than a life in the pen
[01:01.66]Making money off of cuss words, writing again
[01:04.29]Learn how to think ahead, so I fight with my pen
[01:06.93]Late night down sunset liking the scene
[01:09.86]What’s the worst they could do to a nigga?
[01:12.03]Got me lost in hell
[01:13.15]To live and die in L.A. on bail
[01:15.31]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be.
[01:20.97]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see.
[01:26.35]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be.
[01:32.08]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see.
[01:38.66]It’s the City of Angels and constant danger
[01:41.17]South Central L.A., can’t get no stranger
[01:43.72]Full of drama like a soap opera, on the curb
[01:46.44]Watching the ghetto bird helicopters, I observe
[01:49.20]So many niggas getting three strikes, tossed in jail
[01:51.91]I swear the pen right across from hell
[01:53.97]I can’t cry cause it’s on now
[01:55.95]I’m just a nigga on his own now
[01:57.93]Living life thug style
[01:59.61]So I can’t smile
[02:00.84]Writing to my peoples when they ask for pictures
[02:03.09]Thinking Cali just fun and bitches
[02:05.75]Better learn about the dress code, B’s and C’s
[02:08.55]All them other niggas copycats, these is G’s
[02:11.23]I love Cali like I love women
[02:13.36]Cause every nigga in LA got a little bit of thug in him
[02:16.83]We might fight amongst each other… but I promise you this:
[02:19.50]We’ll burn this bitch down, get us pissed
[02:21.55]To live and die in LA
[02:21.86]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be.
[02:27.22]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see.
[02:32.81]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be.
[02:38.25]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see.
[02:44.67]Cause would it be L.A. without Mexicans?
[02:47.29]Black love, brown pride and the sets again
[02:49.86]Pete Wilson trying to see us all broke
[02:52.42]I’m on some bullshit out for everything they owe
[02:54.70]Remember K-day?
[02:56.12]Weekends, Crenshaw, MLK?
[02:58.14]Automatics rang free, niggas lost they way
[03:01.04]Gang signs being shown, nigga, love your hood!
[03:03.66]But recognize and it’s all good
[03:05.79]Where the weed at?
[03:07.01]Niggas gettin’ shurrmed out
[03:08.96]Snoop Dogg in this mutha****a permed out
[03:11.35]M.O.B, Big Suge in the Lo-Lo, bounce and turn
[03:14.74]Dogg Pound in the Lex with a ounce to burn
[03:17.60]Got them Watts niggas with me, O.F.T.B
[03:20.22]They got some hash, took the stash, left the rest for me
[03:23.04]Neckbone, Tre, Herron, Big Buntry too
[03:26.12]Big Rock got knocked, but this one’s for you
[03:28.60]I hit the studio and drop a jewel, hoping it pay
[03:31.48]Getting high, watching time fly: to live and die in LA
[03:33.64]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be.
[03:39.11]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see.
[03:44.67]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be.
[03:50.09]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see.
[03:57.23]This go out for 92.3, and 106
[04:01.28]All the radio stations that be bumping my shit
[04:03.14]Making my shit sells katruple quitraple platinum
[04:08.65]This go out to all the magazines that a nigga
[04:11.96]All the real mother****ers
[04:14.03]All the stores, the mom and pop spots
[04:16.34]A&R people, all y’all mother****ers
[04:19.91]L.A., California Love part mother****ing two
[04:23.30]Without gay ass Dre