California-DJ Quik

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[00:00.00]California - DJ Quik
[00:11.31]Yeah I wanna take this time to dedicate this song to my city
[00:16.18]To my county - f**k it the whole state
[00:19.93]Let me take a moment to tell you just what it is
[00:22.18]C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A is the biz
[00:24.68]Celebrity down to Cherokee back to the kids
[00:26.74]Every level of livin status except for the mid
[00:29.18]A paradise situation if that's what you make it
[00:31.55]Red and blue equal yellow tape if that's where you take it
[00:34.24]Forest fires and earthquakes and manmade lakes
[00:36.43]A prescription for chronic tonic to ease your aches
[00:38.87]And if you dress right you can have the best night
[00:41.55]Two or three at a time and let the rest fight
[00:44.11]The diamonds and red gold might give you a head cold
[00:46.55]You freeze like a Jello mold when you hit the light
[00:48.99]On Rosecranz you can't make a U-turn
[00:50.74]Cross the T flats and try to make new birds or shoot back
[00:53.49]It's war and peace with no help from police
[00:55.86]Either you restin in peace or tryin to conquer the streets
[00:58.31]In California
[00:58.91]Everybody want it but you can't get it
[01:00.85]Gangster to the hustler live to straight win it
[01:03.40]It's California mayne (California) it's California mayne (California)
[01:08.09]We got movie stars and we got criminals
[01:10.53]Boys from the hood and fly saditty hoes
[01:12.90]It's California mayne (California) it's California mayne (California)
[01:18.03]In Inglewood they come in yellowbone Compton they come with shots
[01:20.59]Carson got the smart ones Watts got the hots
[01:23.03]Glass houses in Linnwood see how they hop
[01:25.41]With the ladies gettin ready in hair and nail shops
[01:27.46]In Bellflower Lakewood ladies taste good
[01:29.15]It stay hood visitin but stay if they could
[01:31.09]With KDAY bangin out betray us they stood
[01:33.40]By the burger stand tellin stories on the wood
[01:35.40]With all these dudes and all these bad broads
[01:38.40]And all this good food and all these fast cars
[01:41.28]Ain't no wonder why Cali got all these glad stars
[01:44.77]Forty dollar shots gettin turned up at the bar
[01:47.65]It's the Pacific coast how could they doubt you
[01:50.09]I did this track out of town thinkin about you
[01:52.40]From Eureka through Ventura down to San Diego
[01:54.04]California es en fuego fuego
[01:56.68]Everybody want it but you can't get it
[01:58.87]Gangster to the hustler live to straight win it
[02:01.37]It's California mayne (California) it's California mayne (California)
[02:06.30]We got movie stars and we got criminals
[02:08.30]Boys from the hood and fly saditty hoes
[02:10.99]It's California mayne (California) it's California mayne (California)
[02:16.13]Leather and wood I'm good to the plus
[02:18.26]Don't even trip I did the shoes and the bus
[02:20.88]76 and Crenshaw was the locale
[02:22.63]I used to smoke out in between my vo-cals
[02:26.00]Wherever it's cheap wherever it's Q
[02:27.94]Whatever California want us to do
[02:30.16]If you in the red and they get you in blue
[02:32.60]Represent your concrete keepin it true
[02:34.54]And all my girls in the world I love you all
[02:36.91]I never want you to lose I won't let you fall
[02:39.66]But you gotta get better at lovin a ni**a lovin yourself
[02:41.91]Instead of steady comin up on the wealth
[02:44.35]I been here a while I know a pretty smile is a trap
[02:47.54]To pull a ni**a right up out of his cap
[02:49.91]But give me 20 minutes I can widen the gap
[02:51.97]It's California baby on the left of the map ah-hah
[02:55.03]Everybody want it but you can't get it
[02:56.79]Gangster to the hustler live to straight win it
[02:59.60]It's California mayne (California) it's California mayne (California)
[03:04.53]We got movie stars and we got criminals
[03:06.54]Boys from the hood and fly saditty hoes
[03:09.22]It's California mayne (California) it's California mayne (California)