[00:00.30]California love...
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[00:12.27]California...knows how to party
[00:17.42]California...knows how to party
[00:22.95]In the citaaay of L.A.
[00:27.86]In the citaaay of good ol' Watts
[00:33.13]In the citaaay, the city of Compton.
[00:38.77]We keep it rockin! We keep it rockin!
[00:43.47]Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west
[00:46.63]A state that's untouchable like Elliot Ness
[00:48.78]The track hits ya eardrum, like a slug to ya chest
[00:51.81]Pack a vest for your Jimmy in the city of ***
[00:54.17]We in that sunshine state with a bomb ass hemp beat
[00:56.36]the state where ya never find a dance floor empty.
[00:59.65]And pimps be on a mission for them greens
[01:02.30]lean mean money-makin'-machines servin' fiends.
[01:04.66]I been in the game for ten years makin' rap tunes
[01:08.11]ever since honeys was wearin' sassoon.
[01:10.01]Now it's '95
[01:10.92]and they clock me and watch me
[01:12.62]diamonds shinin'
[01:13.58]lookin' like I robbed Liberace.
[01:14.99]It's all good, from Diego to tha Bay
[01:17.88]Your city is tha bomb if your city makin' pay
[01:20.76]Throw up a finger if ya' feel the same way
[01:23.03]Dre puttin' it down for Californ-i-a.
[01:25.58]California....knows how to party
[01:30.79]California....knows how to party
[01:35.63]In tha citaaay of LA
[01:41.11]In tha citaaay of good ol' Watts
[01:45.55]In the citaaay, the city of Compton.
[01:51.31]We Keep it Rockin'
[01:53.51]We Keep it Rockin'
[01:55.87](Dre) Yeah, now make it shake! come on!
[01:57.47]Shake Shake it baby
[01:59.72]Shake Shake it, Shake it baby
[02:02.14]Shake Shake it, Shake it Cali(Shake it Cali)
[02:07.90]Shake Shake it baby
[02:10.49]Shake Shake it
[02:13.20]Shake Shake it mama
[02:15.07]Shake it Cali
[02:17.71]Out on bail fresh outta jail
[02:19.35]California dreamin'Soon as I stepped on the scene
[02:21.90]I'm hearin' hoochies screamin'.
[02:23.44]Fiendin' for money and alcohol
[02:24.40]the life of a west side playa'
[02:26.92]where cowards die, it's our ball
[02:28.71]Only in Cali where we riot now rallies are live and die.
[02:31.45]In L.A. we wearin' chucks not Ballies. (yea, that's right)
[02:33.69]Dressed in Locs and khaki suits
[02:35.48]and ride is what we do.
[02:36.48]Flossin' but have caution
[02:37.48]we can lie with other crews.
[02:39.42]Famous cause we program worldwide
[02:40.95]let'em recognize from Longbeach to Rose Grands
[02:43.73]Bumpin' and Grindin' like a slow jam
[02:45.82]it's west side
[02:46.64]so you know the Row won't bow down to no man.
[02:49.07]Say what you say
[02:50.43]but give me that bomb beat from Dre
[02:51.01]let me serenade the streets of L.A.
[02:53.95]From Oakland to Sacktown
[02:55.64]The Bay area in bag down
[02:57.79]California.....knows how to party
[02:57.84]Cali is where they put they mack down
[03:04.13]California.....knows how to party
[03:09.87]In tha Citaaay of LA
[03:15.32]In tha Citaaay of good ol' Watts
[03:20.61]In the citaaay, the city of Compton.
[03:25.93]We keep it Rockin'
[03:27.56]We Keep it Rockin'
[03:29.37](Dre) yeah, yeah now make it shake...uuhhh
[03:31.55]Shake Shake it baby
[03:33.78]Shake Shake it
[03:36.21]Shake Shake it mama, Shake it Cali
[03:41.15](Shake it Cali)
[03:42.39]Shake Shake it baby
[03:43.84](Shake it Cali)
[03:44.95]Shake Shake it
[03:47.42]Shake Shake it mama
[03:49.37](West Coast)
[03:51.03]Shake it Cali
[03:52.03]uh, yeah, uh, uh