California Love - Tupac

[00:12.370]California...knows how to party
[00:17.520]California...knows how to party
[00:23.050]In the citaaay of L.A.
[00:27.960]In the citaaay of good ol' Watts
[00:33.230]In the citaaay, the city of Compton.
[00:38.870]We keep it rockin! We keep it rockin!
[00:43.990]Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west
[00:47.730]A state that's untouchable like Elliot Ness
[00:50.060]The track hits ya eardrum, like a slug to ya chest
[00:52.700]Pack a vest for your Jimmy in the city of ***
[00:55.270]We in that sunshine state with a bomb ass hemp beat
[00:58.230]the state where ya never find a dance floor empty.
[01:00.760]And pimps be on a mission for them greens
[01:03.200]lean mean money-makin'-machines servin' fiends.
[01:06.030]I been in the game for ten years makin' rap tunes
[01:09.470]ever since honeys was wearin' sassoon.
[01:11.230]Now it's '95
[01:12.580]and they clock me and watch me
[01:13.950]diamonds shinin'
[01:14.740]lookin' like I robbed Liberace.
[01:16.400]It's all good, from Diego to tha Bay
[01:18.920]Your city is tha bomb if your city makin' pay
[01:21.470]Throw up a finger if ya' feel the same way
[01:24.360]Dre puttin' it down for California.
[01:27.190]California....knows how to party
[01:31.890]California....knows how to party
[01:36.070]In tha citaaay of LA
[01:43.110]In tha citaaay of good ol' Watts
[01:47.550]In the citaaay, the city of Compton.
[01:53.310]We Keep it Rockin'
[01:55.510]We Keep it Rockin'
[01:57.870](Dre) Yeah, now make it shake! come on!
[01:59.470]Shake Shake it baby
[02:01.720]Shake Shake it, Shake it baby
[02:04.140]Shake Shake it, Shake it Cali(Shake it Cali)
[02:09.900]Shake Shake it baby
[02:12.490]Shake Shake it
[02:15.200]Shake Shake it mama
[02:17.070]Shake it Cali
[02:19.090]Out on bail fresh outta jail
[02:20.590]California dreamin'Soon as I stepped on the scene
[02:23.250]I'm hearin' hoochies screamin'.
[02:24.530]Fiendin' for money and alcohol
[02:26.190]the life of a west side playa'
[02:27.860]where cowards die, it's our ball
[02:29.410]Only in Cali where we riot now rallies are live and die.
[02:32.290]In L.A. we wearin' chucks not Ballies. (yea, that's right)
[02:35.150]Dressed in Locs and khaki suits
[02:36.690]and ride is what we do.
[02:38.480]Flossin' but have caution
[02:39.480]we can lie with other crews.
[02:40.690]Famous cause we program worldwide
[02:42.170]let'em recognize from Longbeach to Rose Grands
[02:45.350]Bumpin' and Grindin' like a slow jam
[02:47.360]it's west side
[02:48.640]so you know the Row won't bow down to no man.
[02:51.070]Say what you say
[02:52.430]but give me that bomb beat from Dre
[02:53.010]let me serenade the streets of L.A.
[02:55.950]From Oakland to Sacktown
[02:57.640]The Bay area in bag down
[02:58.640]California is where they put they mack down
[03:04.030]California.....knows how to party
[03:11.570]In tha Citaaay of LA
[03:17.020]In tha Citaaay of good ol' Watts
[03:22.310]In the citaaay, the city of Compton.
[03:27.630]We keep it Rockin'
[03:29.260]We Keep it Rockin'
[03:31.070](Dre) yeah, yeah now make it shake...uuhhh
[03:33.250]Shake Shake it baby
[03:35.480]Shake Shake it
[03:37.910]Shake Shake it mama, Shake it Cali
[03:42.850](Shake it Cali)
[03:44.090]Shake Shake it baby
[03:45.540](Shake it Cali)
[03:46.650]Shake Shake it
[03:49.120]Shake Shake it mama
[03:51.070](West Coast)
[03:52.730]Shake it Cali
[03:53.730]uh, yeah, uh, uh
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