| Growing up they said the west had no lyricists
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| Can you imagine growing up hearing this?
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| So I took my hip hop serious
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| Years later now the pen game is Furious
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| Styles from a Boy-N-The-Hood
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| Post G-Funk Era trying to do good
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| What about Quik, and Dub C
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| King Tee, Eiht, Kurupt and Suga Free?
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| They Master Ceremonies
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| And they Move Crowds
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| See, I’m from the west coast and I’m so proud
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| This where crack started and we act retarded
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| Niggas be scrapping in the parking lot at Target
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| It’s fucked up, but it’s kind of funny
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| And we be set tripping and it ain’t over money
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| Red and blue is like Muslim and Jew
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| And I don’t ever think they’ll stop but I’m praying that they do
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| In '92 we had a truce for a little bit
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| Until they started back tripping over little shit
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| I was young making sense of this crazy world
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| And my childhood hero had a jheri curl
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| When Eazy-E was playing on the radio
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| I knew exactly how my day would go
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| California sunshine coming in
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| Singing gangsta rap with all my friends
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| The origins of California hip hop
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| Where you can pop lock, or you can get shot
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| Black, white, latin, asian, living in this melting pot
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| Throw up your W and it don’t stop
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| My cousins up north that hit me to the game
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| It’s all California, but we ain’t all the same
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| To G’s up there they had a different swag
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| They was grinding out the trunk getting hella cash
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| B-Legit man
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| E-40 dude
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| Del and Heiro got their start up under Cube
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| Love to my Bay Area fam
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| '93 Til Infinity is still the jam
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| And over 20 year later
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| They still rocking for the stoners and the skaters
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| I used to watch videos by Plan B
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| Dream about hitting up the Hubble Ledge or EMB
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| Shout out to Tommy B and Ray Barby
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| Cause there ain’t no party like a Bay Party
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| When Mac Dre died, I was brokenhearted
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| Show some love to where the independent game started
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| The 6−1-9, shout out to Jay-O
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| Masters Of The Universe, doing it in DayGo
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| I came up on drive-bys and chronic smoke
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| And it was hella crazy, but it was kinda dope
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| When Eazy-E was playing on the radio
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| I knew exactly how my day would go
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| California sunshine coming in
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| Singing gangsta rap with all my friends
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| The origins of California hip hop
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| Where you can pop lock, or you can get shot
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| Black, white, latin, asian, living in this melting pot
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| Throw up your W and it don’t stop
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| It goes 6 In The Morning, police at my door
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| Fresh Adidas squeak across the bathroom floor
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| Ice was telling stories about an inner city war
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| He gave the world a taste and they came back for more
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| They said «bitch"and Fuck Tha Police
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| They said they’d never make a million talking about the streets
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| They said they’d never play it on the radio
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| Now all you hear is gangsta rap everyday and yo
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| We motherfucking pioneers
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| All of that shit started out right here
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| We didn’t make it up but we made if famous
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| Then we spread it worldwide, go ahead and blame us
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| Growing up, gang culture taught us loyalty
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| And that everyone is equal, no royalty
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| So there’s never been a king of the west coast
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| We got some OG’s and we respect those
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| But anyone can get it if there’s beef
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| And nobody’s undefeated in the streets
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| I grew up on palm trees and gangsta rap
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| So pardon me, but I’m thankful for that
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| You know
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| Yeah, and I want to take a minute to give a shout out to pioneers who started
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| this shit. |
| Rest in peace Mixmaster Spade, Toddy Tee, Greg Mack, K-Day,,
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| Too $hort, Freddie B, Rappin Ron &Diddley Dog. |
| The Luniz, Shock G, Saafir,
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| Casual, Del, Hobo Junction, I know I’m missing a gang of people, Kidd Frost,
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| Lighter Shade of Brown, Psycho Realm. |
| Everybody that’s a part of this great
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| culture. |
| Freestyle Fellowship, Cypress Hill, B-Real, Tha Dogg Pound.
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| Did I miss anybody? |
| I probably missed a gang of niggas man. |
| Rest in peace to
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| Eazy-E, Eric Wright. |
| We out. |
| West side.
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| When Eazy-E was playing on the radio
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| I knew exactly how my day would go
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| California sunshine coming in
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| Singing gangsta rap with all my friends
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| The origins of California hip hop
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| Where you can pop lock, or you can get shot
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| Black, white, latin, asian, living in this melting pot
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| Throw up your W and it don’t stop |