[00:01.40] (Murs) [00:01.75] I'm from L dot A dot Californ-I-A hot [00:02.52] Days got shade let me take you 'round the way [00:06.47] Lot of out-of-towners can't handle this city [00:09.41] Where you wear the wrong color and it can get tricky [00:12.36] But that was eighty-six and, things done changed [00:15.18] We a lot mo' evolved with the way that we bang [00:18.39] Not the rips and the dawgs, man the smog might kill ya [00:21.37] But you ain't gotta worry if you stayin North of Wilshire [00:24.20] Don't be scared of Crenshaw, the Slausson super-mall [00:27.23] Or Earl's Hot Dogs man you gotta do it y'all, c'mon [00:30.71] Come to the hood where we do the most good [00:33.21] Magic Johnson be ownin everything like he should [00:36.58] Lynnwood, Long Beach, Hawthorne, Gazine [00:39.30] From the towers in Watts, to the hills of Pasadena [00:42.35] The home of the traffic and that gangbang culture [00:45.25] And I hope the way we do the damn thang don't insult ya [00:48.65] (Chorus: repeat 2X) [00:50.15] I'm from L.A. (ahh) Southern California [00:51.78] Fool the West coast, where everybody is somebody [00:54.42] And the game is fame, do everythang with a bang [00:57.32] And everybody wanna know, what set you claim [01:12.13] (Murs) [01:12.49] The land where the six-fo's, hop up and get low [01:15.54] Your favorite rapper gettin jacked for more than his sick flows [01:18.50] Home of the pornos, we mess up award shows [01:21.52] The weather's always warm so the women wear short clothes [01:24.63] Our beaches ain't the cleanest but the {ahh} is the greenest [01:27.18] And we got the blonde bombshells and sick latinas [01:30.37] Then mix in the dark-skinned light-skinned sisters [01:33.15] Where you never have to wear your triple goose on Christmas [01:36.39] You can miss us with the blizzards and the winters [01:38.73] The hurricanes unless it's in some glasses with some actresses [01:41.47] Perfect frame, silicone or real it don't matter if she paid for it [01:45.66] Every single trend you can probably thank L.A. for it [01:48.65] Bandanas, facelifts, quick trips to Vegas [01:51.63] White t-shirt, Chuck Taylors or them K-Swiss [01:54.65] Poplockin, Crip walkin, chronic blunts, G-Funk [01:57.54] A place that everybody hate, but you gotta see once [02:00.60] (Chorus) [02:02.26]