[Chorus:]
Take Me to L.A. [x4]
Back to the Bay [x4]


[Verse 1: The 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
That's what my wife got
She don't act snooty

Ay that's a Bay thang
So come with that A game
But be on the A list

To see an LA Chick
Los Angeles we all can't handle it
Some call it plastic

That's just the half of it
Like the cows on the 5 when you mash you quit
That's a drive but it flies when you passionate

Yeah... I got family up north
Homies down south man it's all home court
We take it back and forth

Some Oakland Raiders
The Bay to LA, like Amoeba player


[Chorus]

[Overdub on the 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


[Verse 2: MURS]
Uh, and all my homies say "Rip! "

When I first got to the Bay, I straight tripped
Blood! blood!
What's that all about?

Tommy's got these broads sayin' blood in his house?
Cause, but I ain't thugged out
Ignorance off my chest I let it out

(It's all good) now I'm back on my grind
On telegraph with them fat $$# dimes
(I got tapes) see the Bay got that lime

And LA we was still smokin brown at the time
Ugg, so when I got back home
Fools wasn't tryin to hear 3-54 zone

Hell naw! that's until they got blown
And they came to my door like cause it's on! Blood!
Now I'm goin back and forth

Greyhound hella green in my green Jansport

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[Verse 3: 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 didn't have a tour bus


[The Grouch:]
No! But we had that heart though

Intrigued by that old freestyle LaMerk Part flow
LA, G-Funk and Bay Area slang
A, W up cause it's all the same


[MURS:]
1996 was the Hall Of Game
Whole damn summer had the streets on flame
But I'm kind of ashamed

That I stepped on Mac Dre
Godfather of the game

[Grouch:]
Wake up, cake up, pilot auto

In Oakland it's taco's
LA I eat Rascos
Thought you thought
It is what it is
Los Angeles baby, by way of town biz


[Chorus]