LAX Files
The Game Lyrics

Put you're lighters up if you want to
If you want to show support for me and my lyrics, raise your lighters in the air

Pull you're motherfucking dodger caps over you're motherfucking eyes
Lower the brim of your Dodger's cap so you can't see anything

Till you can't see shit
Keep lowering your cap until your vision is completely obstructed

I want you to go blind nigga
I want you to experience the feeling of not being able to see anything as I did when I was in a coma

Raised in the city of angels
I was born and raised in Los Angeles

Where safe and danger switch lanes
In L.A., the distinction between safety and danger is constantly changing

So stranger drive slow (drive slow)
If you're visiting L.A., be careful driving or you might get caught up in some dangerous situations

Where beggars and gangstas
In L.A., there are all types of people, from the poorest to the most dangerous

Fast women and dank are
L.A. has beautiful, fast women and high-quality weed

Just part of the face that we show
These things are just the outward appearance of what L.A. is actually like

We got mountains and ocean
L.A. has beautiful natural features such as mountains and the ocean

We move in slow motion
L.A. natives often move slowly in contrast to the fast pace of the city

Off that sticky that you all love to blow
People in L.A. like to smoke high-quality weed

I swear ain't nothing better there
There is nothing better than L.A.

That's why we all take our hats off to you, the one blood
I'm paying homage to the One Blood street gang in L.A.

Come to my hood (hood)
Come to my neighborhood in L.A.

Look at my block (block)
Take a look at the specific block I grew up on

That's that project building, yeah that's where I got shot (shot)
That building over there is where I was shot in the past

Cause I was more hood than Suge
I was even more of a 'hood' character than Suge Knight

Had more rocks than Jay
I had more drugs than Jay-Z

More scars in my face than the original Scarface
I have more scars on my face than the character Scarface played by Al Pacino

Or the homeboy Scarface
I also have more scars than the rapper Scarface

Al Pacino couldn't be no gangsta
Even the actor who played Scarface could not actually be a gangsta

Deniro in casino he no gansta
Even Robert De Niro's character in Casino was not really a gangsta

Wanna be, wanna see, wanna get a shovel, dig tookie up nigga
If you are faking as a gangsta, you might as well dig up Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, who founded the Crips and who was executed in 2005

Cause he know gangstas
Tookie knew what it really meant to be a gangsta

Niggas think cause they watch menace a couple times
People think they understand what it's really like because they've watched 'Menace II Society' a couple of times

Seen Cuban boys in the hood and press rewind
People watch movies like 'Boyz n the Hood' and rewind to re-watch certain parts

That you can survive when a real crip run upon your corner an flex the nine
You cannot just survive when a real Crip comes up and points a gun at you

You must be out of your mind
You are insane if you think you can simply survive that situation

A real blood will put you out of your mind
If a real Blood gang member confronts you, he won't hesitate to kill you

So stay the fuck up out of my hood
Stay away from my neighborhood if you don't want to get hurt

Or my niggas take you up out of your shine
My friends might hurt you or rob you if you come into my neighborhood flaunting your wealth

It ain't a movie dog
These are real-life situations that are not just fantasy like in movies

Hell yeah it's a real fuckin' Uzi dog
There are real guns and violence in L.A.

I'm bout to hop inside my impala
I'm about to get into my car, a Chevrolet Impala

Try to keep up, don't loose me yall
Try to follow me as I drive without getting lost

I know the real O-Dog
I know someone who is like the character O-Dog from the movie Menace II Society

And that nigga know the real Game
That person knows who I really am

I call him the rinse tape
I refer to him by a certain nickname

And he never been in no gang
Even though he knows me, he himself has not been involved in gangs

But he been in my house (house)
He has been to my house before

And he set on my couch (couch)
He even sat on my couch

While I put one in the air
While I was smoking weed

So yeah tat nigga know what I'm bout (bout)
He understands my lifestyle

I'm bout my hood
I'm very dedicated to my neighborhood

I'm bout my block
I care deeply about the specific block I grew up on

I'm bout my chips
I'm all about making money

So if the rap money stop and I punch a clock
If I can no longer make money from rap, I'll have to do a regular job

Catch you slippin' at a light get out yo shit
I might rob you if I catch you without being prepared at a stoplight

We jack niggas, out of towners
We rob people who come from out of town thinking they can navigate the city easily

And rap niggas, and ball players
We even rob rappers and athletes who come into our territory

Cause we ball player
We are also ballers

We chop it up with them trap niggas
We talk with the people who sell drugs

We outkast, we big boys
We are outsiders (like the rap group OutKast) and big boys

Ludacris with them big toys
We are also like Ludacris, who was known for having big guns

Where I'm from there's only two things standing on the corner
On the street corner in my neighborhood there are only two things - me and the liquor store

Me and that liquor store
I'm always on that street corner and so is the liquor store

Look what the bloods did to Weezy
The rapper Lil Wayne was shot by members of the Bloods gang

Look what the crips did to Jeezy
The rapper Young Jeezy was also targeted by the Crips

This gangbanger shit ain't nothing to play with
Being involved in gang activity is extremely serious and can be dangerous

Me and Snoop Dogg just made it look easy
Despite the danger, Snoop Dogg and I make it look easy to be involved in this lifestyle

You niggas got this L.A shit real fucked up man
You guys don't understand what L.A. is really like

Niggas better start respecting what the fuck we about man
You guys need to start respecting the dangerous, violent lifestyle we are involved in

We take niggas the fuck out, this shit ain't no movie dawg
We are capable of killing people, and it's not like it is in the movies

This shit is real crips, bloods, ese
This lifestyle is real and involves the Crips, Bloods, and ESÉ gangs

We hold shit down, This is L.A.
We are in charge of things, and this is what Los Angeles is really like

Wrote the shit on my face, put a motherfucking star behind
I got a tattoo of the word 'starface' on my face to show that I am a star and a gangsta