Intro:



(Dominique) Street Science. You're on the air.

What do you feel when you hear a record like Tupac's new one?



(Man) I love Tupac's new record



(Dominique) right, but don't you feel like that creates

ugh tension between East and West?



He's talking about killing people, I had sex with your wife

and not in those words,

but he's talking about I wanna see you deceased.



(Tupac)

I looovve L-A



No doubt

To Live and Die in LA

California--whatcha saying about Los Angeles

still the only place for me.



To Live and Die in LA

when everyday we try a fatten' our pockets

Us niggas' hustle for the cash so it's hard to knock it

Everybody got their own thang currency chasin'

World wide thru the hard times worrying faces

Shed tears as we bury niggas' close to heart

What was a friend now a ghost in the dark

Cold hearted--my nigga got smoked by a fiend

Trying to floss on em'

blind to a broken man's dream



A hard lesson--court cases keep me guessin'

plea bargain ain't an option now-so I'm stessin'

Cost me more to be free than a life in the Penn

making money off of cuss words--writing again

Learn how to think ahead--so I fight with my pen

late night down Sunset like in a scene

What's the worst they could do to a nigga

got me lost in hell--To Live and Die in LA

on bail--my angels sing...



Chorus:



To live and Die in La, it's the place to be

you've got to be there to know it

where everybody wanna see



It's the city of angels and constant danger

South Central LA--can't get no stranger

full of drama like a soap opera

on the curb

watching the ghetto bi