California

[10 seconds of instrumental to open]

[DJ Quik]

Yeah.. I wanna take this time to dedicate this song to my city

To my county - fuck it the whole state

Let me take a moment to tell you just what it is

C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A is the biz

Celebrity down to Cherokee back to the kids

Every level of livin status except for the mid

A paradise situation if that's what you make it

Red and blue equal yellow tape if that's where you take it

Forest fires and earthquakes and manmade lakes

A prescription for chronic tonic to ease your aches

And if you dress right, you can have the best night

Two or three at a time and let the rest fight

The diamonds and red gold might give you a head cold

You freeze like a Jello mold when you hit the light

On Rosecranz you can't make a U-turn

Cross the T flats and try to make new birds or shoot back

It's war and peace with no help from police

Either you restin in peace or tryin to conquer the streets

in California

[Chorus (AMG)]

Everybody want it but you can't get it

Gangster to the hustler, live to straight win it

It's California mayne (California) it's California mayne (California)

We got movie stars and we got criminals

Boys from the hood and fly saditty hoes

It's California mayne (California) it's California mayne (California)

[DJ Quik]

In Inglewood they come in yellowbone, Compton they come with shots

Carson got the smart ones, Watts got the hots

Glass houses in Linnwood, see how they hop

With the ladies gettin ready in hair and nail shops

In Bellflower Lakewood ladies taste good

It stay hood, visitin but stay if they could

With KDAY bangin out, betray us they stood

by the burger stand tellin stories on the wood

With all these dudes and all these bad broads

and all this good food and all these fast cars

Ain't no wonder why Cali got all these glad stars

Forty dollar shots gettin turned up at the bar

It's the Pacific coast {?} how could they doubt you

I did this track out of town thinkin about you

From Eureka through Ventura down to San Diego

California es en fuego, fuego..

[Chorus]

[AMG]

Leather and wood, I'm good to the plus

Don't even trip, I did the shoes and the bus

76 and Crenshaw was the locale

I used to smoke out in between my vo-cals

Wherever it's cheap, wherever it's Q

Whatever California want us to do

If you in the red and they get you in blue

Represent your concrete keepin it true

And all my girls in the world, I love you all

I never want you to lose, I won't let you fall

But you gotta get better at lovin a nigga, lovin yourself

Instead of steady comin up on the wealth

I been here a while, I know a pretty smile is a trap

To pull a nigga right up out of his cap

But give me 20 minutes I can widen the gap

It's California baby on the left of the map, ah-hah

[Chorus]