[00:01.50]There's two sides to my city  a red side and a blue side to my city
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[00:06.80]Too many died in my city  imagine if we all unified in my city
[00:12.17]There's two sides to my city  a red side and a blue side to my city
[00:17.60]Too many died in my city  imagine if we all unified in my city
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[00:22.59]Black Adidas sandals with the stripes
[00:24.96]Socks pulled up I'm West Coast for life
[00:27.46]On my way to the store on the little homies bike
[00:30.27]And I don't break a sweat I let the young niggas fight
[00:34.20]I done earned my stripes no you might lose your life
[00:37.01]On any given night
[00:39.62]Them black and white cars
[00:41.32]Them dudes inside ain't from streets like ours
[00:44.81]So they hop out with their guns drawn
[00:47.55]Make us lay down on the front lawn
[00:50.87]Knights take pawns to the holding cell
[00:53.25]We hope we make bail by dawn
[00:56.00]That's what really goes on
[00:57.68]Where's Bunchy Carter man it's been too long
[01:01.75]Geronimo Ji Jaga hope Obama free Asata we just doing what we gotta
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[01:06.93]There's two sides to my city  a red side and a blue side to my city
[01:12.24]Too many died in my city  imagine if we all unified in my city
[01:17.73]There's two sides to my city  a red side and a blue side to my city
[01:23.23]Too many died in my city  imagine if we all unified in my city
[01:28.28]Shout out to Tookie Williams  shout out to T  Rodgers
[01:30.96]Shout out to all the homies locked down with no fathers
[01:33.65]We had a lot of problems  seen a lot of drama
[01:36.15]Some believe in Jesus  few of us believe in karma
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[01:39.05]We got daughters  a couple baby Mamas
[01:41.30]But love can't compete with the power of a dollar
[01:44.42]You see over seas is what they building Impalas
[01:46.67]While we're working in the streets cause a job not promised
[01:49.64]Graduate to a key become a street scholar
[01:52.21]Cause red and blue rags are the new blue collar
[01:55.33]It's hard to swallow make me wanna holla
[01:57.64]But you came hear my voice the radio don't bother
[02:00.76]Could play the positive I give you knowledge
[02:03.32]On the whole west coast there ain't no one Black college
[02:07.01]Wonder why we got problems
[02:08.56]Without knowledge of yourself it's impossible to solve em
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[02:12.48]There's two sides to my city  a red side and a blue side to my city
[02:17.84]Too many died in my city  imagine if we all unified in my city
[02:23.41]There's two sides to my city  a red side and a blue side to my city
[02:28.78]Too many died in my city  imagine if we all unified in my city
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[02:34.29]The land of smog and earthquakes
[02:36.22]Thought I'd be dead by my twenty first birthday
[02:38.90]Fed cars  we ride dirty because the block's hot
[02:42.10]Kevlar under Ibaka jersey's to block shots
[02:44.77]When you enter a city that's never known winter
[02:47.15]Redistrict just so they can cut us out of the Staples Center
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[02:50.75]That's less funding for schools
[02:52.97]Now the kids with the guns make the rules
[02:55.32]Hunger Games  Battle Royale  Lord Of The Flies
[02:57.88]The city's re-born while more of us die
[03:00.76]Gentrify  genocide  everywhere the rent is high
[03:03.89]Watch a local business die then wonder why the tensions rise
[03:07.40]We use music as release  as a Zulu I should teach so I do it over beats
[03:11.50]The future's in our reach find solutions to the beef
[03:14.19]Get every shooter in the streets to ride for universal peace
[03:17.94]There's two sides to my city  a red side and a blue side to my city
[03:23.42]Too many died in my city  imagine if we all unified in my city
[03:28.92]There's two sides to my city  a red side and a blue side to my city
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[03:34.42]Too many died in my city  imagine if your all unified in my city