(Chorus)   Take Me to L.A.   Take Me to L.A.   Take Me to L.A.   Take Me to L.A.   Back to the Bay   Back to the Bay   Back to the Bay   Back to the Bay      (Grouch)   I grew up in the bay   so I'm down to earth   I live in L.A.   that means I'm down to work   I Got a laid back style   but I like to floss it   Vans and Chucks inside my closet   LA face with an oakland booty   Thats what my wife got   she don't act snooty   Ay thats a bay thang   so come with that A game,   but be on the A list,   to see an LA Chick   Los Angeles we all cant handle it   Some call it plastic   thats just the half of it   like the cows on the 5 when you mashin quick   Thats a drive but it flies when you passionate   Yea... I got family up north   Homies down south man its all home court   we take it back and forth,   some Oakland Raiders   the bay to LA, like Amoeba, player      (chorus)   Take Me to L.A.   Take Me to L.A.   Take Me to L.A.   Take Me to L.A.   Back to the Bay   Back to the Bay   Back to the Bay   Back to the Bay      (Overdub on Chorus)   What did you think this was   La to the bay, the buzz,   the buzz, the buzz   What did you think this was   La to the bay, the buzz,   the buzz, the buzz   I keep my hustle you know   i make it go   the bay to la, the bay to la      (Murs)   Uh, and all my homies say rip   when I first got to the bay, I straight tripped   Blood! blood!, whats that all about?   tommy's got these broads sayin "blood" in his house?   cuu cuu, but I aint thugged out   ignorance off my chest i let it out   (its all good) now I'm back on my grind,   on telegraph with them fat ass dimes   (I got tapes) see the bay got that lime,   and LA we was still smokin brown at the time   ugg ugg, so when I got back home   fools wasnt tryin to hear $350 for a zone (Hell naw!)   thats until they got blown   and they came to my door like cuz its on!   Blood!, now im goin back and forth   Greyhound hella green in my green Jansport      (Chorus Extended)      (murs)   Tajai was the first dude I heard say hyphy   back in 97 when nobody liked me   Or should I say liked us?   packed in the RV didnt have a tour bus!   (grouch)   No! But we had that heart though   intrigued by that old freestyler Mer-cart Flow   LA G Funk and Bay Area Slang, a W up cus its all the same,   (murs)   1996 was the hard-lick Game,   whole damn summer had the streets on flame,   but I'm kindof ashamed,   that i stepped on Mac Dre,   godfather of the game.   (grouch)   Wake up, cake up, pilot auto   in Oakland its taco's, LA I eat Roscos   thought you thought, it is what it is,   Los Angeles Baby by way of town biz.      (Chorus)