[ar:2pac feat Val Young]
[ti:to live and die in l.a]
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[00:03.03]Street Science you're on the air
[00:05.79]What do you feel when you hear a record like Tupac's new one
[00:08.02]I love Tupac's new record
[00:08.82]Right but don't you feel like that creates
[00:09.79]A tension between East and West
[00:11.05]He's talking about killing people
[00:14.22]I had sex with your wife and not in those words
[00:15.48]No doubt to live and die in LA
[00:16.70]But he's talking about I wanna see you deceased
[00:18.57]Intro: Makaveli
[00:24.75]California -- what you say about Los Angeles
[00:27.32]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 n***as hustle for the cash so it's hard to knock it
[00:36.74]Everybody got they own thang currency chasing
[00:39.76]Worldwide through the hard times worrying faces
[00:42.01]Shed tears as we bury n***as close to heart
[00:45.19]What was a friend now a ghost in the dark cold hearted about it
[00:48.64]Ni**a got smoked by a fiend trying to floss on him
[00:51.76]Blind to a broken man's dream a hard lesson
[00:53.46]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
[01:01.25]Making money off of cuss words writing again
[01:03.23]Learn how to think ahead so I fight with my pen
[01:06.92]Late night down Sunset liking the scene
[01:08.86]What's the worst they could do to a ni**a 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
[01:25.80]To live and die in LA it's the place to be
[01:31.34]You've got to be there to know it what everybody wanna see
[01:37.93]It's the City of Angels and constant danger
[01:39.86]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 n***as getting three strikes tossed in jail
[01:51.50]I swear the pen the right across from hell I can't cry
[01:54.41]'Cause it's on now I'm just a ni**a 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
[02:02.61]Thinking Cali just fun and b**ches ha ha ha
[02:05.30]Better learn about the dress code B's and C's
[02:07.93]All them other n***as copycats these is G's
[02:10.72]I love Cali like I love woman
[02:12.81]'Cause every ni**a 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 b**ch down get us pissed
[02:21.04]To live and die in LA
[02:22.28]（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
[02:32.08]To live and die in LA it's the place to be
[02:37.75]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
[02:49.38]Pete Wilson trying to see us all broke I'm on some b******t
[02:52.36]Out for everything they owe remember K-DAY
[02:55.48]Weekends Crenshaw -- MLK
[02:57.83]Automatics rang free n***as lost they way
[03:00.51]Gang signs being showed ni**a love your hood
[03:02.85]But recognize and it's all good where the w**d at
[03:06.42]n***as getting shermed out
[03:08.03]Snoop Dogg in this motherf**ker perved out M O B
[03:11.55]Big Suge in the Low-Low bounce and turn
[03:14.44]Dogg Pound in the Lex with a ounce to burn
[03:16.67]Got them Watts n***as with me OFTB
[03:19.74]They got some hash took the stash left the rest for me
[03:22.53]Neckbone Tre Head Ron Punchy too
[03:25.27]Big Rock got knocked but this one's for you
[03:28.09]I hit the studio and drop a jewel hoping it pay
[03:30.80]Getting high watching time fly to live and die in LA
[03:33.80]（Let my angel sing）
[03:34.96]To live and die in LA it's the place to be
[03:36.99]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
[03:49.28]You've got to be there to know it what everybody wanna see
[03:55.14]Outro: Makaveli
[03:56.48]This go out for 92 3 and 106
[04:00.55]All the radio stations that be bumping my sh*t
[04:03.35]Making my sh*t 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 motherf**kers
[04:13.00]All the stores the mom and pop spots
[04:15.40]A&R people all you all motherf**kers
[04:17.62]LA California Love part motherf**king Two
[04:22.29]Without gay a** Dre