To Live and Die in CA

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I'm coming from the Wes-Kaap, west coast It's like Cape Town and Compton are step bros If you don't understand our slang keep your bek closed I grew up around 2 Pac's they were all on death row Yes my brasse ran from the police and the metro's And if there's a little shoot out do like Jon and get low No East side boys here bra the Western Cape is very colourful Witteboome and Wynberg I'm throwing up the W's Home of the brave, living space of the innocent Gangs in LA and CA that's no coincidence Stray bullets flying but the others are deliberate Tourists going home wishing that they never visited My people are indigenous and yes they are the last ones Cape coloured, cape malay that's the way the classed us Even though they tried to break us down we too strong It's nothing but a g thang And I'm the new Snoop Dogg Bad and bourgeois I don't like kinnes that's bougie You under the impression that I have the hele groupies But don't worry now rather take a load off Mooi coloured kinnes that's what the cape is known for And the junk part is that we were taught apartheid Now every ghetto youthie wants to be a scarface But if hip hop is the culture in which we partake Then we will build our people up until the point they can't break [Pre-Chorus] I'm from the city where the skinny niggas die Where you from naaier? (where you from) Kaapstad (Kaapstad) I'm from the city where we struggle to survive Where you from naaier? (where you from) Kaapstad (Kaapstad) I'm from the city that the government divide Where you from naaier? (where you from) Kaapstad (Kaapstad) I'm from the city where all colours collide Where you from naaier? (where you from) Kaapstad (Kaapstad) [Chorus] To live and die in CA To live and die in CA Do you know what it takes? To live and die in CA To live and die in CA We pray every day To live and die in CA To live and die in CA Do you know what it takes? To live and die in CA To live and die in CA Pray every day To live and die in CA To live and die in CA Do you know what it takes? To live and die in CA To live and die in CA We pray every day To live and die in CA To live and die in CA Do you know what it takes? To live and die in CA To live and die in CA We pray every day To live and die [Verse 2] Back up in the Kaap like I never left I was overseas you couldn't reach me via sms I came back, I checked the map the compass said I'm heading west And just to be born here I know that I am very blessed Every place has it pro's and cons and obviously we got ours But the mental slavery amongst coloureds must stop now I be doing everything and yet it's like they're not proud I'm always in the line of fire always getting shot down Look at how far I came by spitting these raw poems Detailing the battlefield my diary is a warzone DMX told me that it's dark there and hell is hot The funny thing is Kaapstad has its own melting pot Smokkel house for the drugheads, call it the candy shop Upper class families tennis courts and they have a yacht What? No wonder my brasse kicked down doors Just look at the place that they were born Yoh! [Pre-Chorus] I'm from the city where the skinny niggas die Where you from naaier? (where you from) Kaapstad (Kaapstad) I'm from the city where we struggle to survive Where you from naaier? (where you from) Kaapstad (Kaapstad) I'm from the city that the government divide Where you from naaier? (where you from) Kaapstad (Kaapstad) I'm from the city where all colours collide Where you from naaier? (where you from) Kaapstad (Kaapstad) To live and die in CA To live and die in CA Do you know what it takes? To live and die in CA To live and die in CA We pray every day To live and die in CA To live and die in CA Do you know what it takes? To live and die in CA To live and die in CA Pray every day To live and die To live and die in CA Do you know what it takes? To live and die in CA To live and die in CA We pray every day To live and die in CA To live and die in CA Do you know what it takes? To live and die in CA To live and die in CA We pray every day To live and die Kaapstad Kaapstad Kaapstad Where you from? [Outro]