1-California…knows how to party.

California…knows how to party.

In the citaaay of L.A.

In the citaaay of good ol’ Watts

In the citaaay, the city of Compton.

We keep it rockin!We keep it rockin!

(Dre)

Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west

A state that’s untouchable like Elliot Ness

The track hits ya eardrum like a slug to ya chest

Pack a vest for your Jimmy in the city of sex

We in that sunshine state with a bomb ass hemp beat

the state where ya never find a dance floor empty.

And pimps be on a mission for them greens

lean mean money-makin’-machines servin’ fiends.

I been in the game for ten years makin rap tunes

ever since honeys was wearin sassoon.

Now it’s ’95and they clock me and watch me

Diamonds shinin’ lookin’ like I robbed Liberace.

It’s all good, from Diego to tha Bay

Your city is tha bomb if your city makin’ pay

Throw up a finger if ya’ feel the same way

Dre puttin’ it down for

Californ-i-a.

(repeat 1)

2-Shake it shake it baby!

Shake it shake it baby!

Shake it shake it mama!

Shake it Cali!

Shake it shake it baby!

Shake it shake it shake it shake it…

(Tupac)

Out on bail fresh outta jail

California dreamin’

Soon as I stepped on the scene

I’m hearin’ hoochies screamin’.

Fiendin’ for money and alcohol

the life of a west side playa’ where cowards die

Only in Cali where we riot now rallies are live and die.

In L.A. we wearin’ chucks not Ballies. (yea, that’s right)

Dressed in Locs and khaki suits and ride is what we do

Flossin’ but have caution we can lie with other crews.

Famous cause we program worldwide

Let’em recognize from Longbeach to Rose grands

Bumpin’ and grindin’ like a slow jam, it’s west side

So you know the row won’t bow down to no man.

Say what you say

But give me that bomb beat from Dre

Let me serenade the streets of L.A.

>From Oakland to Sacktown

The Bay area in bag down

Cali is where they put they mack down

Give me love!

(rpt 1)

(dre) now make it shake…

(rpt 2)

(Dre)

uh, yeah, uh, longbeach in tha house, uh yeah

Oaktown, Oakland definately in tha house hahaha

Frisko, Frisko

(Tupac) hey, you know LA is up in this

Pasadina, where you at

yeah, Ingelwood, Ingelwood always up to no good

(Tupac) even Hollywood tryin to get a piece baby

Sacramento, sacramento where ya at? yeah

(Tupac)

Throw it up y’all, throw it up, Throw it up

Let’s show these fools how we do this on that west side

Cause you and I know it’s tha best side

(Dre)

yeah, That’s riight

west coast, west coast

uh, California Love

California Love ,

I shall not fear no man but God

Though I walk through the valley of death

I shed so many tears (if I should die before I wake)

Please God walk with me (grab a nigga and take me to Heaven)

Back in elementary, I thrived on misery

Left me alone I grew up amongst a dyin breed

Inside my mind couldn’t find a place to rest

until I got that Thug Life tatted on my chest

Tell me can you feel me? I’m not livin in the past, you wanna last

Be tha first to blast, remember Kato

No longer with us he’s deceased

Call on the sirens, seen him murdered in the streets

Now rest in peace

Is there heaven for a G?Remember me

So many homies in the cemetery, shed so many tears

Ahh, I suffered through the years, and shed so many tears..

Lord, I lost so many peers, and shed so many tears

Now that I’m strugglin in this business, by any means

Label me greedy gettin green, but seldom seen

And fuck the world cause I’m cursed, I’m havin visions

of leavin here in a hearse, God can you feel me?

Take me away from all the pressure, and all the pain

Show me some happiness again, I’m goin blind

I spend my time in this cell, ain’t livin well

I know my destiny is Hell, where did I fail?

My life is in denial, and when I die,

baptized in eternal fire I’ll shed so many tears

Lord, I suffered through the years, and shed so many tears..

Lord, I lost so many peers, and shed so many tears

Now I’m lost and I’m weary, so many tears

I’m suicidal, so don’t stand near me

My every move is a calculated step, to bring me closer

to embrace an early death, now there’s nothin left

There was no mercy on the streets, I couldn’t rest

I’m barely standin, bout to go to pieces, screamin peace

And though my soul was deleted, I couldn’t see it

I had my mind full of demons tryin to break free

They planted seeds and they hatched, sparkin the flame

inside my brain like a match, such a dirty game

No memories, just a misery

Paintin a picture of my enemies killin me, in my sleep

Will I survive til the mo’nin, to see the sun

Please Lord forgive me for my sins, cause here I come…

Lord, I suffered through the years (God) and shed so many tears..

God, I lost so many peers, and shed so many tears

Lord knows I.. tried, been a witness to homicide

Seen drivebys takin lives, little kids die

Wonder why as I walk by

Broken-hearted as I glance at the chalk line, gettin high

This ain’t the life for me, I wanna change

But ain’t no future right for me, I’m stuck in the game

I’m trapped inside a maze

See this Tanqueray influenced me to gettin crazy

Disillusioned lately, I’ve been really wantin babies

so I could see a part of me that wasn’t always shady

Don’t trust my lady, cause she’s a product of this poison

I’m hearin noises, think she fuckin all my boys, can’t take no more

I’m fallin to the floor; beggin for the Lord to let me in

to Heaven’s door — shed so many tears

(Dear God, please let me in)

Lord, I’ve lost so many years, and shed so many tears..

I lost so many peers, and shed so many tears

Lord, I suffered through the years, and shed so many tears..

God, I lost so many peers, and shed so many tears