[00:00.78]“Street Science, you’re on the air. What do you feel when you hear a record like Tupac’s new one?”“ [00:05.68]“I love Tupac’s new record”“ [00:06.80]“Right, but don’t you feel like that creates - ahh- tension between East and West? [00:11.92]I mean, he’s talking about killing people, ‘I had *** with your wife’ - and not in those words. [00:17.32]But he’s talking about, ‘I wanna see you deceased’…” [00:31.05]To live and die in L.A., where everyday we try to fatten our pockets [00:34.42]Us ****** hustle for the cash so it’s hard to knock it [00:37.52]Everybody got they own thang, currency chasin’ [00:40.15]Worldwide through the hard times, worrying faces [00:42.95]Shed tears as we bury ****** close to heart [00:45.75]Who was a friend is now a ghost in the dark [00:47.94]Cold hearted bout it, ***** got smoked by a fiend [00:50.63]Trying to floss on him blind to a broken man’s dream [00:53.39]A hard lesson [00:54.59]Court cases keep me guessin [00:56.15]Plea bargain ain’t an option now, so I’m stressin [00:58.81]Cost me more to be free than a life in the pen [01:01.66]Making money off of cuss words, writing again [01:04.29]Learn how to think ahead, so I fight with my pen [01:06.93]Late night down sunset liking the scene [01:09.86]What’s the worst they could do to a *****? [01:12.03]Got me lost in hell [01:13.15]To live and die in L.A. on bail [01:15.31]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be. [01:20.97]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see. [01:26.35]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be. [01:32.08]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see. [01:38.66]It’s the City of Angels and constant danger [01:41.17]South Central L.A., can’t get no stranger [01:43.72]Full of drama like a soap opera, on the curb [01:46.44]Watching the ghetto bird helicopters, I observe [01:49.20]So many ****** getting three strikes, tossed in jail [01:51.91]I swear the pen right across from hell [01:53.97]I can’t cry cause it’s on now [01:55.95]I’m just a ***** on his own now [01:57.93]Living life thug style [01:59.61]So I can’t smile [02:00.84]Writing to my peoples when they ask for pictures [02:03.09]Thinking Cali just fun and *****es [02:05.75]Better learn about the dress code, B’s and C’s [02:08.55]All them other ****** copycats, these is G’s [02:11.23]I love Cali like I love women [02:13.36]Cause every ***** in LA got a little bit of thug in him [02:16.83]We might fight amongst each other… but I promise you this: [02:19.50]We’ll burn this ***** down, get us pissed [02:21.55]To live and die in LA [02:21.86]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be. [02:27.22]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see. [02:32.81]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be. [02:38.25]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see. [02:44.67]Cause would it be L.A. without Mexicans? [02:47.29]Black love, brown pride and the sets again [02:49.86]Pete Wilson trying to see us all broke [02:52.42]I’m on some ******** out for everything they owe [02:54.70]Remember K-day? [02:56.12]Weekends, Crenshaw, MLK? [02:58.14]Automatics rang free, ****** lost they way [03:01.04]Gang signs being shown, *****, love your hood! [03:03.66]But recognize and it’s all good [03:05.79]Where the **** at? [03:07.01]****** gettin’ shurrmed out [03:08.96]Snoop Dogg in this mutha****a permed out [03:11.35] [03:14.74]Dogg Pound in the Lex with a ounce to burn [03:17.60]Got them Watts ****** with me, O.F.T.B [03:20.22]They got some hash, took the stash, left the rest for me [03:23.04]Neckbone, Tre, Herron, Big Buntry too [03:26.12]Big Rock got knocked, but this one’s for you [03:28.60]I hit the studio and drop a jewel, hoping it pay [03:31.48]Getting high, watching time fly: to live and die in LA [03:33.64]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be. [03:39.11]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see. [03:44.67]To Live and Die in L.A., it’s the place to be. [03:50.09]You’ve got to be there to know it, everybody wanna see. [03:57.23]This go out for 92.3, and 106 [04:01.28]All the radio stations that be bumping my **** [04:03.14]Making my **** sells katruple quitraple platinum [04:08.65]This go out to all the magazines that a ***** [04:11.96]All the real ************s [04:14.03]All the stores, the mom and pop spots [04:16.34]A&R people, all y’all ************s [04:19.91]L.A., California Love part **********ing two [04:23.30]Without gay ass Dre