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INTRO:
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Dominique: What do you feel when you hear a record like Tupac's new one?
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Man: I love Tupac's new record
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Dominique: Right, but don't you feel like that creates tension between East and West?
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Dominique: He's talking about killing people, I had sex with your wife
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and not in those words, but he's talking about I wanna see you deceased.
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Makaveli:
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No doubt
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To live and die in LA
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California - Don't care what you say about Los Angeles
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Still the only place for me it never rains
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To Live and Die in LA
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Where everyday we try a fatten' our pockets
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Us niggaz hustle for the cash so it's hard to knock it
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Everybody got their own thang currency chasin'
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World wide through the hard times worrying faces
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Shed tears as we bury niggaz close to heart
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What was a friend now a ghost in the dark
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Cold hearted bout it, nigga got smoked by a fiend
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Tryin to floss on em'
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Blind to a broken man's dream
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A hard lesson--court cases--keep em guessin'
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Plea bargain ain't an option now--so I'm stressin'
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Cost me more to be free than a life in the Penn
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Making money off of cuss words--writin' again
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Learn how to think ahead--so I fight with my pen
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Late night down sunset like in a sin
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What's the worst they could do to a nigga
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Get me lost in hell--To Live and Die in LA
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On bail--my angels sing...
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Chorus:
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To Live and Die in LA, it's the place to be
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You've got to be there to know it
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Where everybody wanna see
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To Live and Die in LA, it's the place to be
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You've got to be there to know it
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Everybody wanna see
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It's the cities of angels and constant danger
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South Central LA--can't get no stranger
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Full of drama like a soap opera
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On the curb watching the ghetto bird helicopters
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I observe--so many niggaz
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Gettin 3 strikes--tossed in jail
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Swear the Penn's right across from hell
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I can't cry--cause it's home now
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I'm just a nigga on his own now
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Livin life thug style--so I can't smile
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Writin to my peoples
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When they ask for pictures
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Thinkin Cali just fun and bitches
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(hahaha)
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Better learn about the dress code
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B's and C's--all them other niggaz copycats
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These is G's
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I love Cali like I love woman
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Cause every nigga in LA
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Got a little bit of thug in em'
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We might fight amongst each other
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But I promise you this
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We'll burn this bitch down--get us pissed
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To Live and Die in LA
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~Chorus~
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It wouldn't be LA with Mexicans
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Black love, Brown pride
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and the sets again--Pete Wilson
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Tryin to see us all broke
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I'm on some bullshit
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Out for everything they owe
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Remember K day
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Weekends--Crenshaw--MLK
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Automatics rang free niggaz lost they way
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Gang signs bein shown
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Nigga love your hood
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But recognize and it's all good
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Where the weed at--niggaz gettin shermed out
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Snoop Dogg in this muthafucka burned out
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M-O-B
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Big Suge in the lo lo
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Bounce and turn
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Dogg Pound in the Lex
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With an ounce to burn
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Got them Watts niggaz with me OFCP
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They got some hash
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Took a stash
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Left the rest for me
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Neckbone--Dre, Heron, Bungy too
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Big Rock got knocked
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But this one's for you
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I hit the studio and drop a jewel
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Hoping it pay
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Gettin high--watchin time fly
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To Live and Die in LA
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~Chorus~
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Makaveli:
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This goes out for 92.3, 106--all the radio stations
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That be bumping my shit
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Makin my shit sales Quadruple, Quadrople, platinum
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This goes out to all the magazines
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That support a nigga
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All the real mufuckas
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All the stores, the mom & pop spots
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A&R people, all yawl mufuckas
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LA--California love
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Part mufuckin 2 without gay ass Dre
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To Live And Die In L.A.
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Tupac Shakur |