To Live And Die In CA
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 Jhon and get low
No East side boys here bra the Western Cape is very colourful
Witteboom 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 they 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 kinnies 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 kinnies 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 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
I’m from the city where the city niggas die
Where you from
Kaapstad
I’m from the city where we struggle to survive
Where you from
Kaapstad
I’m from the city that government divide
Where you from
Kaapstad
I’m from the city where all colours collide
Where you from
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 everyday
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 everyday
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 everyday
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 everyday
To live and die
Back up in the Kaap like I never left
I was overseas you couldn’t reach me via sms
I came back I check 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 its pros 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 dairy 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
Smoke house for the druggie let’s 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 they were born, yoh!
I’m from the city where the city niggas die
Where you from
Kaapstad
I’m from the city where we struggle to survive
Where you from
Kaapstad
I’m from the city that the government divide
Where you from
Kaapstad
I’m from the city where all colours collide
Where you from
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 everyday
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 everyday
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 everyday
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 everyday
To live and die
Kaapstad
Kaapstad
Kaapstad
Where you from
I mean I have seen in Cape Town, I lived in Cape Town in 1969 I lived in Cape town
Where in Cape Town was that?
Reese street where I was married to your grandmother
I lived with her family
Was that district 6?
Uh they call it district 6 yes
The reason why they called it district 6 because
Cape Town was cornered off into District 1's 2's 3's 4's 5's 6
And it was easier for the police to say district 6 they knew exactly where to go
So they call it district 6 that was the violent area
It wasn't all that violent when I came there
I was never attacked by a real skollie or anything, as they called them skollies
Never really attacked in actual fact
I was respected when I came up there
In actual fact I left early in the morning to go to work I used to be
20 to 6 I already be on the road to go take the train
And I used to whistle because I was bloody scared being so quite coming through that dangerous area
I used to whistle
Every saturday when I was working overtime and I come home early
These guys used to stand there and they used to call me "Hi guy"
They'd know my name
"Thank you for waking us up in the morning"
Because I whistled every morning
They didn't know I was fuckin' scared
But I whistled any song and that woke them up
"Ay there's the man going this is the time"
They must get up
So I was respected a lot by these guys
