[ti:to live and die in l.a]
[ar:2pac feat Val Young]
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[00:03.04]Street Science, you're on the air
[00:05.80]What do you feel when you hear a record like Tupac's new one?
[00:08.02]I love Tupac's new record
[00:08.83]Right, but don't you feel like that creates
[00:09.80]a tension between East and West?
[00:11.06]He's talking about killing people
[00:14.22]I had sex with your wife and not in those words
[00:15.49]No doubt... to live and die in LA
[00:16.70]but he's talking about I wanna see you deceased
[00:18.58]Intro: Makaveli]
[00:19.85]
[00:24.75]California -- what you say about Los Angeles
[00:27.33]Still the only place for me that never rains in the sun and everybody got love
[00:31.20]To live and die in LA, where everyday we try to fatten our pockets
[00:33.61]Us niggas hustle for the cash so it's hard to knock it
[00:36.74]Everybody got they own thang, currency chasing
[00:39.77]Worldwide through the hard times, worrying faces
[00:42.01]Shed tears as we bury niggas close to heart
[00:45.19]What was a friend now a ghost in the dark, cold hearted about it
[00:48.65]Nigga got smoked by a fiend, trying to floss on him
[00:51.76]Blind to a broken man's dream, a hard lesson
[00:53.47]Court cases keep me guessing, plea bargain ain't an option now,
[00:56.89]So I'm stressing, cost me more to be free than a life in the pen
[01:01.26]Making money off of cuss words, writing again
[01:03.24]Learn how to think ahead, so I fight with my pen
[01:06.93]Late night down Sunset liking the scene
[01:08.86]What's the worst they could do to a nigga got me lost in hell
[01:12.74]To live and die in LA on bail, my angel sing
[01:15.51]To live and die in LA, it's the place to be
[01:20.36]You've got to be there to know it, what everybody wanna see
[01:25.81]To live and die in LA, it's the place to be
[01:31.35]You've got to be there to know it, what everybody wanna see
[01:37.94]It's the City of Angels and constant danger
[01:39.87]South Central LA, can't get no stranger
[01:43.26]Full of drama like a soap opera, on the curb
[01:45.61]Watching the ghetto bird helicopters, I observe
[01:48.66]So many niggas getting three strikes, tossed in jail
[01:51.51]I swear the pen the right across from hell, I can't cry
[01:54.42]'cause it's on now, I'm just a nigga on his own now
[01:57.23]Living life Thug style, so I can't smile
[01:59.68]Writing to my peoples when they ask for pictures
[02:02.62]Thinking Cali just fun and bitches, ha ha ha
[02:05.30]Better learn about the dress code, B's and C's
[02:07.94]All them other niggas copycats, these is G's
[02:10.73]I love Cali like I love woman
[02:12.81]'cause every nigga in LA got a little bit of Thug in him
[02:16.28]We might fight amongst each other, but I promise you this
[02:18.89]We'll burn this bitch down, get us pissed
[02:21.04]To live and die in LA
[02:22.29]（Let my angel sing）
[02:23.15]To live and die in LA, it's the place to be
[02:26.68]You've got to be there to know it, what everybody wanna see
[02:32.09]To live and die in LA, it's the place to be
[02:37.76]You've got to be there to know it, what everybody wanna see
[02:44.07]'cause would it be LA without Mexicans?
[02:46.71]Black love brown pride and the sets again
[02:49.39]Pete Wilson trying to see us all broke, I'm on some bullshit
[02:52.36]Out for everything they owe, remember K-DAY
[02:55.48]Weekends, Crenshaw -- MLK
[02:57.84]Automatics rang free, niggas lost they way
[03:00.51]Gang signs being showed, nigga love your hood
[03:02.85]But recognize and it's all good, where the weed at?
[03:06.42]Niggas getting shermed out
[03:08.03]Snoop Dogg in this mother****er perved out, M.O.B.
[03:11.56]Big Suge in the Low-Low, bounce and turn
[03:14.44]Dogg Pound in the Lex, with a ounce to burn
[03:16.68]Got them Watts niggas with me, OFTB
[03:19.74]They got some hash took the stash left the rest for me
[03:22.54]Neckbone, Tre, Head Ron, Punchy too
[03:25.28]Big Rock got knocked, but this one's for you
[03:28.09]I hit the studio and drop a jewel, hoping it pay
[03:30.81]Getting high watching time fly, to live and die in LA
[03:33.81]（Let my angel sing）
[03:34.96]To live and die in LA, it's the place to be
[03:37.00]You've got to be there to know it, what everybody wanna see
[03:43.57]To live and die in LA, it's the place to be
[03:49.29]You've got to be there to know it, what everybody wanna see
[03:55.15]Outro: Makaveli]
[03:56.49]This go out for 92.3, and 106
[04:00.55]All the radio stations that be bumping my shit
[04:03.35]Making my shit sells katruple quitraple platinum, he he
[04:07.39]This go out to all the magazines that supported me
[04:10.48]All the real mother****ers
[04:13.01]All the stores, the mom and pop spots
[04:15.40]A&R people, all you all mother****ers
[04:17.62]LA, California Love part mother****ing Two
[04:22.29]Without gay ass Dre