Hello LA (feat. Exile & Georgia Anne Muldrow)

Love is Blu
Love is Blu
Love is Blu
Love is Blu
Here in Los Angeles

Straight outta South Central
Runnin' down the block, age five with the (pop!)
Aimin' at the cops out my window
What you been through?
Yo, I grew up on King Bully in the 80s
With the Raiders and Ronald Reagan
Hollywood Boulevard is my backyard
It's no wonder I became a rap star
I never wanted the fame
Now the hood know my name, I killed the game
And it ain't been the same, so I got a chain
City of angels

I'm from LA
Straight from the city of angels
Hello, what can I say?
What can I say?

My name is (Blu!) B to the L-you
I used boost CDs, clothes and stolen shoes (Retail!)
And now the homies out of school used to tell fools
That's Blu Steel from the Bridgetown crew
Wrecking mics, selling weed, rollin' shotty
Made it out the hood, surprised nobody shot me
For the knowledge, the loyal, the true
And like I always tell my blood: You can be Blu too

I'm from LA
Straight from the city of angels
There's not much more for me to say
Hello, I'm simply from LA
From LA
Straight from the city of angels
And you better believe it
$20, got a court-side seat at the sports arena
I'm from LA
Straight from the city of angels
Hello, how ya doin'?
I'm proudly from LA
From LA
Straight from the city of angels
Til the day I'm old and gray
I'm proudly from LA, yeah

So what you think about my life, ma?
I'm a rap star, without the mansion and the fast car
I never graduated
But I made it pretty far from playing music in the car you always hated
I know I could have been bigger than the hood
Cuba Gooding in Boyz n the Hood
But I was ballin' in a little gym
Across the street from where they filmed Boyz n the Hood, yo, in the hood then

I'm from LA
Straight from the city of angels, ooh
I'm from LA
Straight from the city of angels, yea