| Woke up the other mornin, I heard a rumor
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| They said the gang wars was over
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| I told em they was bullshittin, they said it’s real as hell
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| Can’t explain the way I felt
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| Too many years I seen my brothers die
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| And I can’t say that shit was really that fly
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| But I used to gangbang when I was younger
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| So it’s really hard to tell a kid that he’s goin under
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| I never thought I lived to see us chill
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| Crips and Bloods holdin hands, the shit is ill
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| But I love it, I can’t help it
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| Too much death on the streets, and we dealt it
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| Van Ness Boys, The Hoovers, The 60s
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| Bounty Hunters, 8-Treys, all coolin out, gee
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| I pray the shit’ll never stop
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| You used to see the wrong colors, and the gats went pop-pop
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| But now the kids got a chance to live
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| And the O.G.'s got something to give
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| That’s love, black on black, that’s how they made it
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| And if any busters flip, they get faded
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| L.A. is where I’m speakin of
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| Peace to all the gangsters, cause I got a lotta love
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| I got a lotta love, cause you’re all my brothers
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| Red or blue, black’s the color
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| We got a chance, so we can really sweat the real fools
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| Show those muthafuckas the real tools
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| Check the enemy, it ain’t the family
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| Not 1−11, try L.A.P.D
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| They gotta understand, they beat on a blackman
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| There’s gonna be drama, know what I’m sayin?
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| And if we flip, let’s all flip together
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| Cause I’m prepared, kid, for rough weather
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| And we gotta realize, the boys on the east side
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| You call em Eses, I call em allies
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| Because the day that we all unite
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| Watch the pigs get real polite
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| Punk muthafuckas gotta learn quick
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| That we ain’t takin no more shit
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| L.A. is where I’m speakin of
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| Peace to all the gangsters, cause I got a lotta love
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| Crenshaw Boulevard, Sunday afternoon
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| Folks sittin on things, mad systems boom
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| The girls are lookin better
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| The gang truce is on, so you wear whatever
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| At Venice by the ocean
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| Rag-top Trey hits the three-wheel motion
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| There’s gangsters all around
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| Still crazy sets, but you just don’t clown
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| I pray L.A. can stay this way
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| It’s the first summer I can really say
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| I felt cool, we all chilled
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| Went to the park, and nobody got killed
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| Now if you got a problem, it’s man on man
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| You don’t need a gang to solve em
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| I seen the greatest thing I seen in my life
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| Two brothers in a straight up fist fight
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| Nobody pulled a gat, nobody jumped in
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| Nobody pulled a knife, nobody got done in
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| L.A. is where I’m speakin of
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| Peace to my city, cause I got a lotta love
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| G-a-t-e-s, I hope you wear a vest
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| Even after you’re out the fuckin office
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| Cause we’re on a totally different tip
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| Fuck that pig brutality shit
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| This unity is gettin to me
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| Every brother on the street is my homie
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| I’m rollin through a hood that I never been
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| And every brother steps to me as a friend
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| I love it, I love it
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| And nothin in my life will ever be above it
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| We wanna see our kids all grown up
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| We’re tired of seein our hoods get blown up
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| L.A. is a great place
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| Fly girls, dope cars, life at a fast pace
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| But gangbanging was killin it quick
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| Another child got hit — bullshit
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| Pop-pop-pop, 10 on a weekend
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| We was goin off to deep end
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| But now we got a chance, my friend
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| To mend, and make the colors blend
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| Let’s all go out on a picnic, kick shit
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| And squash all the static
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| Last year I lost about five homies
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| This shit is real to me
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| L.A. is where I’m speakin of
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| Peace to all the gangsters, cause I got a lotta love
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| Yo
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| This is goin out to all the gangbangers
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| All over South Central
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| Watts
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| Inglewood
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| All over L.A., basically
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| East L. A
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| Youknowmsayin?
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| It’s basically goin down
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| Peace to all the Crips and the Bloods
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| Van Ness Boys
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| Hoovers
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| Rollin 60s
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| Bounty Hunters
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| Yeah
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| And the Jungle
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| This is goin out to all the brothers over there in Watts
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| You know what I’m sayin?
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| Throwin it up
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| Grape Street
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| Nutty Blocc
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| Front Hood
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| And all them niggas out there in Compton
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| Rollin 30s
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| Harlem
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| Ah yeah
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| Pueblos
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| Nickerson G’s
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| Peace
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| Inglewood Family
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| 18th Street
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| South Loc
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| And all the Ese homeboys
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| All the different sets
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| Every set, Crip, Blood
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| What doesn’t matter to me
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| Cause I gotta love
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| You know what I’m sayin?
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| Hope the truce never ends
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| Youknowsayin?
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| We can do this |