2Pac - To Live & Die In L.A.(1998)

[00:00.82] Street Science you're on the air
[00:01.83] What do you feel when you hear a record like Tupac's new one?
[00:04.48] I love Tupac's new record
[00:06.45] Right, but don't you feel like that creates tension between east and west?
[00:11.04] He's talking about killing people, I had sex with your wife
[00:15.10] And not in those words, but he's talking about I wanna see you deceased
[00:21.39] No doubt
[00:23.32] To live and die in L.A.
[00:25.48] California - don't care what you say about Los Angeles
[00:27.95] Still the only place for me it never rains
[00:30.12] To live and die in L.A.
[00:31.91] Where everyday we try a fatten' our pockets
[00:34.02] Us niggas hustle for the cash so it's hard to knock it
[00:36.80] Everybody got their own thang currency chasin'
[00:39.47] World wide through the hard times worrying faces
[00:42.25] Shed tears as we bury niggaz close to heart
[00:45.04] What was a friend now a ghost in the dark
[00:47.01] Cold hearted 'bout it, nigga got smoked by a fiend
[00:49.95] Tryin to floss on em'
[00:51.50] Blind to a broken man's dream
[00:52.88] A hard lesson court cases keep 'em guessin'
[00:55.46] Plea bargain ain't an option now so I'm stressin'
[00:58.08] Cost me more to be free than a life in the penn
[01:01.04] Making money off of cuss words writin' again
[01:03.78] Learn how to think ahead so I fight with my pen
[01:06.43] Late night down sunset like in a sin
[01:09.05] What's the worst they could do to a nigga
[01:11.56] Get me lost in hell to live and die in L.A. on bail
[01:14.81] My angels sing...
[01:16.65] To live and die in L.A., it's the place to be (and my angels go)
[01:20.25] You've got to be there to know it
[01:23.03] Where everybody wanna see (to live and die in L.A.)
[01:25.98] To live and die in L.A., it's the place to be
[01:31.14] You've got to be there to know it
[01:34.19] Everybody wanna see
[01:37.42] It's the cities of angels and constant danger
[01:40.44] South central L.A. can't get no stranger
[01:43.18] Full of drama like a soap opera
[01:45.15] On the curb watching the ghetto bird helicopters
[01:47.73] I observe so many niggaz
[01:49.53] Gettin' three strikes tossed in jail
[01:51.38] Swear the penn's right across from hell
[01:53.35] I can't cry cause it's home now
[01:55.55] I'm just a nigga on his own now
[01:57.27] Livin' life thug style so I can't smile
[01:59.92] Writin to my peoples
[02:01.31] When they ask for pictures
[02:02.61] Thinkin' Cali just fun and bitches
[02:04.64] (Hahaha)
[02:05.46] Better learn about the dress code
[02:07.12] B's and C's all them other niggaz copycats
[02:09.52] These is G's
[02:10.83] I love Cali like I love women
[02:12.81] Cause every nigga in L.A.
[02:14.17] Got a little bit of thug in em'
[02:15.72] We might fight amongst each other
[02:18.23] But I promise you this
[02:19.13] We'll burn this bitch down, get us pissed
[02:21.08] To live and die in L.A.
[02:22.85] To live and die in L.A., it's the place to be (let my angel sing)
[02:26.79] You've got to be there to know it
[02:29.44] Where everybody wanna see (to live and die in L.A.)
[02:32.19] To live and die in L.A., it's the place to be (to live and die in L.A.)
[02:37.37] You've got to be there to know it
[02:40.49] Everybody wanna see
[02:44.08] It wouldn't be L.A. with mexicans
[02:46.50] Black love, brown pride
[02:48.33] And the sex again, Pete Wilson
[02:50.17] Tryin' to see us all broke
[02:51.76] I'm on some bullshit
[02:52.76] Out for everything they owe
[02:54.11] Remember K day
[02:55.34] Weekends crenshaw MLK
[02:57.22] Automatics rang free niggaz lost they way
[03:00.37] Gang signs bein' shown
[03:02.11] Nigga love your hood
[03:03.35] But recognize and it's all good
[03:05.38] Where the weed at niggaz gettin' shermed out
[03:07.93] Snoop Dogg in this muthafucka burned out
[03:10.49] M-O-B
[03:11.65] Big Suge in the lo lo
[03:13.26] Bounce and turn
[03:14.31] Dogg pound in the lex
[03:15.78] With an ounce to burn
[03:16.97] Got them watts niggaz with me OFCP
[03:19.89] They got some hash
[03:20.91] Took a stash
[03:21.60] Left the rest for me
[03:22.62] Neckbone, Dre, Heron, Bungy too
[03:24.79] Big rock got knocked
[03:26.86] But this one's for you
[03:28.02] I hit the studio and drop a jewel
[03:29.83] Hoping it pay
[03:30.85] Gettin high watchin' time fly
[03:32.60] To live and die in L.A.
[03:34.11] To live and die in L.A., it's the place to be (let my angel sing)
[03:38.34] You've got to be there to know it
[03:41.20] Where everybody wanna see
[03:43.94] To live and die in L.A., it's the place to be (to live and die in L.A.)
[03:49.32] You've got to be there to know it
[03:52.37] Everybody wanna see
[03:56.01] This goes out for 92.3, 106 all the radio stations
[04:02.43] That be bumping my shit
[04:03.72] Makin my shit sales quadruple, quadrople, platinum
[04:07.13] This goes out to all the magazines
[04:10.01] That support a nigga
[04:11.04] All the real muthafuckas
[04:13.18] All the stores, the mom and pop spots
[04:15.40] A and R people, all ya'll muthafuckas
[04:18.29] L.A. California Love
[04:21.48] Part motherfuckin' two without gay ass Dre
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