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Yeah.. I wanna take this time to dedicate this song to my city |
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To my county - **** it the whole state |
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Let me take a moment to tell you just what it is |
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C-A-L-I-F- |
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O-R-N-I-A is the biz |
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Celebrity down to |
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Cherokee back to the kids |
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Every level of livin status except for the mid |
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A paradise situation if that's what you make it |
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Red and blue equal yellow tape if that's where you take it |
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Forest fires and earthquakes and manmade lakes |
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A prescription for chronic tonic to ease your aches |
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And if you dress right, you can have the best night |
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Two or three at a time and let the rest fight |
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The diamonds and red gold might give you a head cold |
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You freeze like a |
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Jello mold when you hit the light |
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On Rosecranz you can't make a |
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U-turn Cross the |
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T flats and try to make new birds or shoot back |
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It's war and peace with no help from police |
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Either you restin in peace or tryin to conquer the streets in |
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California [Chorus (AMG)] |
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Everybody want it but you can't get it |
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Gangster to the hustler, live to straight win it |
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It's California mayne (California) it's |
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California mayne (California) |
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We got movie stars and we got criminals |
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Boys from the hood and fly saditty hoes |
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It's California mayne (California) it's |
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California mayne (California) [DJ Quik] |
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In Inglewood they come in yellowbone, |
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Compton they come with shots |
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Carson got the smart ones, |
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Watts got the hots |
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Glass houses in |
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Linnwood, see how they hop |
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With the ladies gettin ready in hair and nail shops |
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In Bellflower |
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Lakewood ladies taste good |
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It stay hood, visitin but stay if they could |
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With KDAY bangin out, betray us they stood by the burger stand tellin stories on the wood |
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With all these dudes and all these bad broads and all this good food and all these fast cars |
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Ain't no wonder why |
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Cali got all these glad stars |
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Forty dollar shots gettin turned up at the bar |
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It's the Pacific coast {?} how could they doubt you |
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I did this track out of town thinkin about you |
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From Eureka through |
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Ventura down to |
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San Diego |
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California es en fuego, fuego.. [Chorus] [AMG] |
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Leather and wood, |
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I'm good to the plus |
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Don't even trip, |
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I did the shoes and the bus 76 and |
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Crenshaw was the locale |
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I used to smoke out in between my vo-cals |
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Wherever it's cheap, wherever it's |
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Q Whatever |
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California want us to do |
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If you in the red and they get you in blue |
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Represent your concrete keepin it true |
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And all my girls in the world, |
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I love you all |
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I never want you to lose, |
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I won't let you fall |
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But you gotta get better at lovin a nigga, lovin yourself |
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Instead of steady comin up on the wealth |
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I been here a while, |
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I know a pretty smile is a trap |
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To pull a nigga right up out of his cap |
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But give me 20 minutes |
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I can widen the gap |
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It's California baby on the left of the map, ah-hah [Chorus] |