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  • California love!

  • California knows how to party

  • California knows how to party

  • In the citaaay of L.A.

  • In the city of good ol' Watts

  • In the city, 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

  • California knows how to party

  • (knows how to party)

  • California (West Coast) knows how to party

  • In the city of L.A.

  • In the city of good ol' Watts

  • In the city, the city of Compton

  • We keep it rockin! We keep it rockin!

  • 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 mama

  • Shake it Cali

  • 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 and its all ball

  • 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!

  • California knows how to party

  • California knows how to party

  • In the city of L.A.

  • In the city of good ol' Watts

  • In the city, the city of Compton

  • We keep it rockin! We keep it rockin!

  • 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 mama

  • Shake it Cali

  • 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

  • I can't see ya

  • 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 right

  • west coast, west coast

  • uh, California Love

  • California Love

  • Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

  • Where ya at

  • Yeah

California love!

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