The City Of Long Beach

[Chorus: Micah Bournes]
I get around this rock
Mad homies on the block
In a whole lotta cities I know
Got fam in Youngstown
Many friends up in Bend
And I fell in love with Chicago
But when I’m on this road
And I spit these poems
And they wanna know a little ‘bout me
My home be
Be the City of Long Beach
My home be
Be the City of Long Beach

[Verse 1: Micah Bournes]
Minutes from da coast
Never go to the sand
If you isn’t from my home
Then you won’t understand
Meet a Long Beach grown
I don’t care what you do
Only thing I wanna know
Where you went to high school?
I’m a scholar and a champ, green and golden I bleed
Classroom lookin’ like a coalition of peace
Black, White, Cambodian, Polynesian, and Brown
All tight like a fist that be fightin’ the power
Sup foo, aye cuz, dudes ladies and bros
Hands high for the city, dubs up for the coast
I’m Kappernickin’ the flag but Cali until I croak
No matter how far I go Long Beach on my dome

[Chorus: Micah Bournes]
I get around this rock
Mad homies on the block
In a whole lotta cities I know
Got fam in Youngstown
Many friends up in Bend
And I fell in love with Chicago
But when I’m on this road
And I spit these poems
And they wanna know a little ‘bout me
My home be
Be the City of Long Beach
My home be (My home be the city by the sea)
Be the City of Long Beach (My home be the LB, LBC)

[Verse 2: Micah Bournes]
Cousin I’m glad that gangsta rap died
Bad for ya mind but ya boy can’t lie
The G Funk ride
Whenever I hear ‘em play Snoop, Dre
Warren, Nate I’m ready to regulate
On my enemies though I never load clips
If you raised in the beach you an honorary Crip
What makes a young church boy
Wanna dip to songs about indo
Sippin on gin
Really one word I just wanted respect
Black since birth I was born wit’ a hex
Thug or thug-not they treated me like a threat
So I might as well strut wit’ my little bird chest
Feelin’ like a King when I saw how they feared me
Swagger so clean even privilege envies
Tables got turned now White kids they yearn
To have what we got but this is our burden
Our stories finally gettin’ heard
From the ghettos of America to the ends of the earth
Whole world wishin’ they was Black like us
But it ain’t dope to live po’ and oppressed
Oh no my people don’t be pimpin’ your pain
Romanticizing the madness to make you some change
If you reppin’ for your hood hope you rappin’ for change
Do not gentrify, transform hearts and brains

[Chorus: Micah Bournes]
I get around this rock
Mad homies on the block
In a whole lotta cities I know
Got fam in Youngstown
Many friends up in Bend
And I fell in love with Chicago
But when I’m on this road
And I spit these poems
And they wanna know a little ‘bout me
My home be
Be the City of Long Beach
My home be
Be the City of Long Beach
My home be (My home be the city by the sea)
Be the City of Long Beach (My home be the LBC)
My home be (My home be the city by the sea)
Be the City of Long Beach (My home be the LB, LBC)

[Verse 3: Ronnie B.]
Ronnie B from the LBC
Class of Nineteen Seventy Three
I know you
You know me
Hey I’m still the same but one thing has changed
I now proclaim Jesus name
I used roll on my Schwinn after dark
Meet the fellas up at King Park
Ride the bridge to the westide
‘Cause it all was Long Beach pride
Met up at the P,O,L,Y
All green and gold inside
I used to hang out with D Dub
Kenny, Kelly and J Dub
Sed, Lee, and Ricky G
Junior Lee, Anthony, Louie, and Big D
All representing the LBC

[Chorus: Micah Bournes]
I get around this rock
Mad homies on the block
In a whole lotta cities I know
Got fam in Youngstown
Many friends up in Bend
And I fell in love with Chicago
But when I’m on this road
And I spit these poems
And they wanna know a little ‘bout me
My home be
Be the City of Long Beach
My home be
Be the City of Long Beach
My home be (My home be the city by the sea)
Be the City of Long Beach (My home be the LBC)
My home be (My home be the city by the sea)
Be the City of Long Beach (My home be the LB, LBC)