Chords for 2Pac - To Live & Die In L.A.

Street Science, you're on the air.
What do you feel when you hear a record like Tupac's new one?
I love Tupac's new record.
Right, but don't you feel like that creates tension between East and West?
He's talking about killing [F] people.
I had sex with your wife, and not in those words.
But he's talking about, I want to see you deceased.
_ The best.
[Em] Don [Am] M.A., California.
What [F] you say about Los Angeles?
Still [Em] the only place for me that never [Am] represents us.
I'm from Los Angeles, and live and die in L [F].A.
Where every day we try to fatten our [Em] pockets.
Us niggas hustle for [Am] the cash, so it's hard to not.
Everybody got they own thing, come and see Jason.
Worldwide, through the hard times, quarreling faces.
Shed tears as we worry [G] niggas close to home.
What was a friend, [Am] now a ghost in the dark.
Cold part about it, nigga [C] got smoked by a fiend.
[G] Try to gloss on him, blind to [Am] a broken man's dream.
A hard lesson, court cases, keep me guessing.
[Em] Fleet walking ain't an option [C] now, so I'm stressing.
Cost me more to be free than a life in the pen.
Making [Em] money off of cuss words [Am] like McGee.
Learn how to think [F] ahead, so [C] I fight with my pen.
[Em] Late night, damn sunset, [C] like in the city.
What's the worst they could do to a nigga?
Got me lost in [G] hell, so live and die in L [Am].A.
On bail.
[F] My agency.
_ [C] _
[Em] It's the place [Am] for me.
And [F] I'm so happy.
That you [Am] know it.
[Em] Everybody [Am] wanna see.
So live [F] and die in L.A. _
[Em] It's the place [Am] for me.
And I'm so happy.
That you know it.
[Em] Everybody [Am] wanna see.
It's [G] the city [C] of angels [F] and constant [C] danger.
South Central [Am] L.A.
Can't get no [F] stranger.
Full of drama like [C] a soap opera.
[F] On the [C] curb watching the kettle burn.
Helicopters.
I observed so many niggas getting three strikes.
Hostage [G] jail.
I swear to be right [C] across from hell.
I can't rock this home now.
I'm just a nigga on this home now.
Living life thug style.
So I can't smell right into my people's when [F] they ask for [Em] bitches.
Thinkin' Cali just [Am] smothering [C] bitches.
[B] Better learn about the [C] dress code.
[F] B's and [Em] C's.
All them other niggas [Am] copycats.
These is G's.
I love Cali like I love women.
[F] Cause [Em] every nigga in L.A. got [Am] a little bit of thug in him.
We might fight amongst each other.
But I promise you that [G] we'll burn this bitch down.
[C] Give us bits.
To live [F] and die in L.A.
In L.A.
[Em] It's the place [Am] to be.
[F] To _ live and die in L.A.
Where [Em] everybody [Am] wanna see.
Living and dying in L.A.
[Em] It's the place [Am] to be.
To live and die in L.A.
To live and die in L.A.
To live and die in L.A.
Where [Em] everybody [Am] wanna see.
We can't be L.A. without [Em] Mexicans.
Black love, brown [Am] pride, and the sex again.
Pete Wilson tryna see us all broke.
I'm on [Em] some bullshit.
Off of [Am] everything they owe, remember K-Day?
[F] We dance, [C] Crenshaw, [G] MLK
Automatic, rank [C] 3, niggas lost they weight
Gang sign, Ben & Sho, nigga [F] love yo [Em] hood
But recognize that it's [Am] all good
Where the [Em] weed at?
[F] Niggas gettin' churned out
Snoop Dogg and this [Em] motherfucker [Am] permed out
M.O..B., Big Shill gettin' the low low [F] Bouncin' [Em] turn, dog poundin' the [C] Lex With a [Em] ounce to burn Got them Watts niggas with me, O [F]-O-F-T [Em]-B They got some half-ticker [Am] stats, left the rest for me Neck, bone, tray, hair on, [F] bunch of [Em] talk Beat rock, got [Am] knocked, but this one's for you I hit the studio and [C] drop a jewel, [Fm] open the [C] pack Kick [G] high, watchin' [Am] time fly To live and die in L.A. To live and die in L.A. [Em] It's the place [Am] to be To [F] live and die in L.A. To know it, [Em] forget about it [Am] On the street To [F] live and die in L.A. [Em] It's the place [Am] to be To live and [F] die in L.A. To breathe it, [Am] to know it Can't look [Em] at it, I [Am] want to see it _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ _ _
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