Rather Die In L.A.

[Intro] This shit is natural to me. It's where I'm from it's where I live. I wear it on my heart. It's apparent when you see me. I was raised here, I'm from here, I'ma die here. L.A., L.A. C'mon [Verse One] It feel like swine eyes eyeing from behind when I drive City lights invite the prey like the bait on a line Community face lifted with a duplex and a coffee shop Convicts coming home to a supermarket parking lot Spray painted names Just so you know You could get punished with hundreds of bullets if you don't watch where you go And hospital staff see you as trash in you ain't in these type clothes Drive bys to say "hi", where bullets shatter your bones How old don't matter, blood splatter, guts ageless And innocent women and children standing by all they favorites Makeshift guns make you run fast for some shade But we stand here, chest out, I'll die in L.A It's [?] yelling "vamanos" My gang [?] Shoot at me on Friday, we coming back late on sábado Maybe the dirt in the air block my grandma prayers But over here it feel like my grandma god don't care [Hook] {x2} Lay me down between the smog in the dirt of my birth Los Angeles in my heart, my neighborhood come first I die in L.A., I'd rather die in L.A I'd rather die in L.A. d-d-die in L.A [Verse Two] These tattoos not for fashion Clothes not for matching It's to identify where you from, who you ran with The block that you stand with Homie's you throw hands with The enemies who will nine out of ten, get blasted A tribute to those passed in Those who went in trapped in Boxes like a cage, animal inside rattling bars and snatching cars Looking for a reason to, drill your thighs with bullets To paralyze you how they leaving you City rotten to the pike Shotgun to a life Where grammar school student up at pockets of my knife Let the dice roll over potholes, watch out for rivals Trickery where police help a young man's survival rate Screw my face and handcuff me tight Tell my mom it's my fault, go 'head and kill me tonight I'd rather... [Hook]