Where You From - Bambu

«May I introduce a city?

That is changing every moment

It’s a charming contradiction.

A prize for everyone.»

If you are from Los Angeles, stand tall

Hope I made my city proud cause I get down for y’all

From Jordan’s old soul food on Wilmington

To Tommy’s on Rampart, we living in

A city with no pity

Smog make lung shitty

Children up at 6:00 to get bused across the city

Laying off teachers

Economy weaker

I watch graduation from under the school bleachers

All my friends had dropped out early

America justice done did my homie’s so dirty

Prison over tagging or prison over some bud

We get medical marijuana, Ro was holding a dub

Now, up in the clouds touching down to a crowd

Waiting for me to say something special over a sound

A city drown in the sun, that Hollywood shit fake

Spotlights from a helicopter shine on my face

We push carts full of plastic trying to make a quick buck

Mad dogging my brothers to hit 'em up where you from

From the city with no pity

Skid Row to Venice

City development is kicking out life long tenets

So where you from?

Throw your neighborhood like you proud

You don’t need to catch a body to show how much you down

This for my cousins who caught it

All my friends who ain’t here

Los Angeles looking different every year

So tell 'em where you from

Where you from?

Where you from?

Where you from?

Where you from?

Uh huh

Where you from?

Where you from?

Where you from?

Where you from?

Where you from?

Uh huh uh huh

Show me where you from

Babies killing babies make me crazy

The rappers glorify how we survive through this bangin'

Politicians speaking for money and not the needy

Seedy, greedy with beedie little eyes feeding the beast

So while Eazy-E up at Ceders

I’m hustling off my beeper

Playing the diggy Doc on my grandmama’s speakers

Teachers kick me out of class

So fast

And all of my O.G.'s had my back so fast

So who you think I trusted?

Eyes closed when I’m jumped in

Brainwashed beef made killing feel like it’s nothing

From a gang that started out as just a car club

Other gangs popping so Satanas got to arming up

And now I work to end all the killing

My peers in the street corrupted our young children

If you really from the days that you claim

Then why would you want our kids to go through the same thang?

From P.R. to Hellside, Sarzana to Flipside

Asia Boys to JEFROX

T.R.G.

on the east side

I really wanna see up grow old

I know that going to war is all the homie’s really know

Them Temple Street T. L's

AKRHO and Tau Gamma

Them school yards, Bahala Nas

This is my plea to see some peace

For all our fallen brothers R.I.P.

it with me