To Live & Die In L.A.

To Live & Die In L.A. - 2Pac (圖派克)

Composed by：Tupac Shakur/Val Young/Quincy Jones III

Street Science you're on the air

What do you feel when you hear a record like

Tupac's new one

I love Tupac's new record

Right but don't you feel like that creates

A 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 talking about I wanna see you deceased

No doubt to live and die in LA

California-what you say about Los Angeles

Still the only place for me that never rains in the sun

To live and die in LA where everyday

We try to fatten our pockets

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

Everybody got they own thang currency chasing

Worldwide through the hard times worrying faces

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

What was a friend now a ghost

In the dark cold hearted about it

N***a got smoked by a fiend trying to floss on him

Blind to a broken man's dream a hard lesson

Court cases keep me guessing plea bargain ain't an option now

So I'm stressing cost me more

To be free than a life in the pen

Making money off of cuss words writing again

Learn how to think ahead so I fight with my pen

Late night down Sunset liking the scene

What's the worst they could do

To a n***a got me lost in hell

To live and die in LA on bail my angel sing

Die in LA it's the place to be

You've got to be there to know it what everybody wanna see

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

Watching the ghetto bird helicopters I observe

So many n***as getting three strikes tossed in jail

I swear the pen the right across from hell I can't cry

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

Living life Thug style so I can't smile

Writing to my peoples when they ask for pictures

Thinking Cali just fun and b***hes ha ha ha

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

All them other n***as copycats these is G's

I love Cali like I love woman

'Cause every n***a 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 b***h down get us pissed

To live and die in LA

Die in LA it's the place to be

You've got to be there to know it what everybody wanna see

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

'Cause would it be LA without Mexicans

Black love brown pride and the sets again

Pete Wilson trying to see us all broke I'm on some bulls**t

Out for everything they owe remember K-DAY

Weekends Crenshaw MLK

Automatics rang free n***as lost they way

Gang signs being showed n***a love your hood

But recognize and it's all good where the w**d at

N***as getting shermed out

Snoop Dogg in this motherf**ker perved out MOB

Big Suge in the low-low bounce and turn

Dogg Pound in the Lex with a ounce to burn

Got them Watts n***as with me OFTB

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

Neckbone Tre Head Ron Punchy too

Big Rock got knocked but this one's for you

I hit the studio and drop a jewel hoping it pay

Getting high watching time fly to live and die in LA

Die in LA it's the place to be

You've got to be there to know it what everybody wanna see

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

This go out for 923 and 106

All the radio stations that be bumping my s**t

Making my s**t sells katruple quitraple platinum he he

This go out to all the magazines that supported me

All the real motherf**kers

All the stores the mom and pop spots

AR people all you all motherf**kers

LA California Love part motherf**king Two

Without gay a*s Dre

To live and die in LA

To live and die in LA