To Live & Die In L.A.-2Pac

[00:00.000]“Street Science, you’re on the air. What do you feel when you hear a record like Tupac’s new one?” [00:05.000]“I love Tupac’s new record” [00:06.000]“Right, but don’t you feel like that creates — ahh— tension between East and West? I mean, 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’…” [00:30.000]To live and die in L.A., where everyday we try to fatten our pockets [00:33.000]Us niggas hustle for the cash so it’s hard to knock it [00:36.000]Everybody got they own thang, currency chasin’ [00:39.000]Worldwide through the hard times, worrying faces [00:43.000]Shed tears as we bury niggas close to heart [00:45.000]Who was a friend is now a ghost in the dark [00:47.000]Cold hearted bout it, nigga got smoked by a fiend [00:50.000]Trying to floss on him blind to a broken man’s dream [00:53.000]A hard lesson Court cases keep me guessin’ [00:55.000]Plea bargain ain’t an option now, so I’m stressin’ [00:58.000]Cost me more to be free than a life in the pen [01:01.000]Making money off of cuss words, writing again [01:03.000]Learn how to think ahead, so I fight with my pen [01:06.000]Late night down sunset liking the scene [01:09.000]What’s the worst they could do to a nigga? [01:11.000]Got me lost in hell [01:12.000]To live and die in L.A. on bail [01:14.000]My angel sing [01:14.995][Hook: Val Young] [01:15.000]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be. [01:20.000]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see. [01:24.000]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be. [01:31.000]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see. [01:36.995][Verse 2: 2Pac] [01:37.000]It’s the City of Angels and constant danger [01:40.500]South Central L.A., can’t get no stranger [01:43.000]Full of drama like a soap opera, on the curb [01:46.000]Watching the ghetto bird helicopters, I observe [01:48.000]So many niggas getting three strikes, tossed in jail [01:51.000]I swear the pen right across from hell [01:53.000]I can’t cry cause it’s on now [01:55.000]I’m just a nigga on his own now [01:57.000]Living life thug style [01:58.000]So I can’t smile [01:59.000]Writing to my peoples when they ask for pictures [02:02.000]Thinking Cali just fun and niggas [02:04.000]Better learn about the dress code, B’s and C’s [02:07.000]All them other b*****s copycats, these is G’s [02:10.000]I love Cali like I love women [02:12.000]Cause every nigga in LA got a little bit of thug in him [02:15.000]We might fight amongst each other… but I promise you this: [02:18.000]We’ll burn this b***h down, get us pissed [02:21.000]To live and die in LA (To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be.) [02:27.000](Let my angel sing) You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see. [02:32.000]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be. [02:36.000](To live and die in LA) You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see. [02:41.995][Verse 3: 2Pac] [02:42.000]Cause would it be L.A. without Mexicans? [02:46.000]Black love, brown pride and the sets again [02:49.000]Pete Wilson trying to see us all broke [02:51.000]I’m on some shit out for everything they owe [02:54.000]Remember K-day? [02:55.000]Weekends, Crenshaw, MLK? [02:57.000]Automatics rang free, niggas lost they way [03:00.000]Gang signs being shown, nigga, love your hood! [03:02.000]But recognize and it’s all good [03:05.000]Where the **** at? [03:06.000]Niggas gettin’ shurrmed out [03:08.000]Snoop Dogg in this b***h permed out [03:10.000]M.O.B, Big Suge in the Lo-Lo, bounce and turn [03:14.000]Dogg Pound in the Lex with a ounce to burn [03:19.000]They got some hash, took the stash, left the rest for me [03:22.000]Neckbone, Tre, Herron, Big Buntry too [03:25.000]Big Rock got knocked, but this one’s for you [03:28.000]I hit the studio and drop a jewel, hoping it pay [03:30.000]Getting high, watching time fly: to live and die in LA [03:33.000]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be. [03:38.000]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see. [03:43.000]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see. [03:55.995][Outro: 2Pac] [03:56.000]This go out for 92.3, and 106 [04:00.000]All the radio stations that be bumping my shit [04:02.000]Making my shit sells katruple quitraple platinum [04:08.000]This go out to all the magazines that a nigga [04:11.000]All the real mother****er [04:15.000]A&R people, all y’all niggas [04:22.000]Without gay ass Dre