Los angeles, the city of angels, my hometown
the ocean breeze, the bright lights all up in downtown
flashes before my eyes like I'm close to death

I used to boast the rep, the confidence would hoist my step
But since then more has been done and a lots been said
The good ain't the same once the modesty is dead

A hood ain't the same once the people turn red
I could just wait but I'd be wasting my breath


A lot of people move away but I never have
I've lived here since I was 2 and a half
made alot of friends, gained a couple enemys

Seen a lot of people done so many different things
Seen a lot of evil and how it has changed me
Sitting on the block, drinking brew at 12,

Smoking cigs with older kids. call that inner city hell-
now most of those same kids is sitting in jail cells.


Chorus -Adele-:
Round my hometown, memories are fresh,
round my hometown, wooh, the people i've met

x2

Verse 2:


Beverly Hills was right around the corner,
but the glamour and the money dont ever hit this side of the border,

dope fiends and gangsters is all you ever see,
driving a %#@!ty $$# car through these grimey streets,
^!$$%s need ebt to get something to eat,

black and whites rollin down slauson lookin for someone to $#&@ with,
and the black on brown crime be on some real tough %#@!,
stand at a bus stop get robbed for your $#&@in kicks.


I'm from the 310 where ^!$$%s will bust quick,
so run for you get smoked like a purp spliff

mean muggin, but you better be bout that life,
coz guaruntee, they'll take it without thinking twice,
late night mobbin for swisher and some Paul Masson,

^!$$%s get twisted and hop in the octagon,
But i love my city, i put that on my whole existence.
all these memories so vivid, i'll just sit here reminising.