California Love (Song)

"California Love" is a song by American rapper 2Pac featuring fellow American rapper-producer Dr. Dre and American singer Roger Troutman. The song was released as 2Pac's comeback single after his release from prison in 1995 and was his first single as the newest artist of Death Row Records. The remix is featured on the UK version of his fourth album, *All Eyez on Me* (1996), and is one of 2Pac's most widely known and most successful singles. It reached number one on the *Billboard* Hot 100 for two weeks (as a double A-side single with "How Do U Want It") and also topped the charts of Italy, New Zealand, and Sweden. The song was posthumously nominated Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 1997.

## Lyrics

* California love!
* California... knows how to party
* California... knows how to party
* In the citaaay of L.A.
* In the citaaay of good ol' Watts
* In the citaaay, the city of Compton
* We keep it rockin! We keep it rockin!
* Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west
* A state that's untouchable like Elliot Ness
* The track hits ya eardrum like a slug to ya chest
* Pack a vest for your Jimmy in the city of sex
* We in that sunshine state with a bomb ass hemp beat
* The state where ya never find a dance floor empty
* And pimps be on a mission for them greens
* Lean mean money-makin-machines servin fiends
* I been in the game for ten years makin rap tunes
* Ever since honeys was wearin sassoon
* Now it's '95 and they clock me and watch me
* Diamonds shinin lookin like I robbed Liberace
* It's all good, from Diego to tha Bay
* Your city is tha bomb if your city makin pay
* Throw up a finger if ya feel the same way
* Dre puttin it down for
* Californ-i-a
* Shake it shake it baby
* Shake it shake it baby
* Shake it shake it mama
* Shake it Cali
* Shake it shake it baby
* Shake it shake it shake it shake it...
* Out on bail fresh outta jail, California dreamin
* Soon as I stepped on the scene, I'm hearin hoochies screamin
* Fiendin for money and alcohol
* The life of a west side playa where cowards die
* Only in Cali where we riot not rally to live and die
* In L.A. we wearin Chucks not Ballies (that's right)
* Dressed in Locs and khaki suits and ride is what we do
* Flossin but have caution we collide with other crews
* Famous cause we program worldwide
* Let'em recognize from Long Beach to Rosecrans
* Bumpin and grindin like a slow jam, it's west side
* So you know the row won't bow down to no man
* Say what you say
* But give me that bomb beat from Dre
* Let me serenade the streets of L.A.
* From Oakland to Sacktown
* The Bay Area and back down
* Cali is where they put they mack down
* Give me love!
* Now make it shake...
* Uh, yeah, uh, longbeach in tha house, uh yeah
* Oaktown, Oakland definately in tha house hahaha
* Frisko, Frisko
* Hey, you know LA is up in this
* Pasadena, where you at
* Yeah, Inglewood, Inglewood always up to no good
* even Hollywood tryin to get a piece baby
* Sacramento, sacramento where ya at? yeah
* Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up
* Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side
* Cause you and I know it's tha best side
* Yeah, That's riight
* West coast, west coast
* Uh, California Love
* California Love