To Live and Die in CA

[Verse 1]
I’m coming from the Wes-Kaap, west coast
It’s like Cape Town and Compton are step bros
If you don’t understand our slang keep your bek closed
I grew up around 2 Pac’s they were all on death row
Yes my brasse ran from the police and the metro’s
And if there’s a little shoot out do like Jon and get low
No East side boys here bra the Western Cape is very colourful
Witteboome and Wynberg I’m throwing up the W’s
Home of the brave, living space of the innocent
Gangs in LA and CA that’s no coincidence
Stray bullets flying but the others are deliberate
Tourists going home wishing that they never visited
My people are indigenous and yes they are the last ones
Cape coloured, cape malay that’s the way the classed us
Even though they tried to break us down we too strong
It’s nothing but a g thang
And I’m the new Snoop Dogg
Bad and bourgeois
I don’t like kinnes that’s bougie
You under the impression that I have the hele groupies
But don’t worry now rather take a load off
Mooi coloured kinnes that’s what the cape is known for
And the junk part is that we were taught apartheid
Now every ghetto youthie wants to be a scarface
But if hip hop is the culture in which we partake
Then we will build our people up until the point they can’t break

[Pre-Chorus]
I’m from the city where the skinny niggas die
Where you from naaier? (where you from)
Kaapstad (Kaapstad)
I’m from the city where we struggle to survive
Where you from naaier? (where you from)
Kaapstad (Kaapstad)
I’m from the city that the government divide
Where you from naaier? (where you from)
Kaapstad (Kaapstad)
I’m from the city where all colours collide
Where you from naaier? (where you from)
Kaapstad (Kaapstad)

[Chorus]
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
Do you know what it takes?
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
We pray every day
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
Do you know what it takes?
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
Pray every day
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
Do you know what it takes?
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
We pray every day
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
Do you know what it takes?
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
We pray every day
To live and die

[Verse 2]
Back up in the Kaap like I never left
I was overseas you couldn’t reach me via sms
I came back, I checked the map the compass said I’m heading west
And just to be born here
I know that I am very blessed
Every place has it pro’s and cons and obviously we got ours
But the mental slavery amongst coloureds must stop now
I be doing everything and yet it’s like they’re not proud
I’m always in the line of fire always getting shot down
Look at how far I came by spitting these raw poems
Detailing the battlefield my diary is a warzone
DMX told me that it’s dark there and hell is hot
The funny thing is Kaapstad has its own melting pot
Smokkel house for the drugheads, call it the candy shop
Upper class families tennis courts and they have a yacht
What?
No wonder my brasse kicked down doors
Just look at the place that they were born
Yoh!

[Pre-Chorus]
I’m from the city where the skinny niggas die
Where you from naaier? (where you from)
Kaapstad (Kaapstad)
I’m from the city where we struggle to survive
Where you from naaier? (where you from)
Kaapstad (Kaapstad)
I’m from the city that the government divide
Where you from naaier? (where you from)
Kaapstad (Kaapstad)
I’m from the city where all colours collide
Where you from naaier? (where you from)
Kaapstad (Kaapstad)
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
Do you know what it takes?
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
We pray every day
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
Do you know what it takes?
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
Pray every day
To live and die
To live and die in CA
Do you know what it takes?
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
We pray every day
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
Do you know what it takes?
To live and die in CA
To live and die in CA
We pray every day
To live and die
Kaapstad
Kaapstad
Kaapstad
Where you from?
[Outro]