[Conversation] (man: Los Angeles is the city where dreams sweep you off your feet >In front of a great spirit, that is both strong and ready >>To help you along your journey (man: ) Los Angeles means a complex [brand?] anatomy >[Worth a lot of love, cookie joy turned tragedy?]?? (woman: ) L.A. is the city that birth me and raised me >That is why it's my everything (man: ) To me, the city of L.A., is the city of dreams because you've got >Hollywood >>And then you know, the city of the spirit, because you've got inner-city (man: ) L.A. is the city of of the champions [bruh?] (man: ) L.A. to me is what to hip-hop is for this urban community >[We're] all [?] essential to every aspect of art that comes to be in tune to an >>aspiring generation (woman: ) To me Los Angeles means culture, sunshine and palm trees (man: ) Los Angeles means [?] [?] sanity (man: ) [Crenshaw ?] (man: ) To me the city of Los Angeles means [peace?] (guy: ) What Los Angeles means to me is opportunity to make dreams reality (man: ) L.A., L.A. means dominance, land of the kings (girl: ) I mean, what do you mean -I am L.A [Verse 1 Thurzday] The city's a predator, blood splats, snakes black Cats, hood rats, fat backs, they want the lion out his habitat Devil contracts, high off contact where you inhale the smog at That'll bring your asthma back, from childhood As it sits in your chest like the taste of the finest cognac You pray for callbacks as everyone audition for they role A lot of n***as play the same character, no cameras Need stamina, to run past ya' With your fake strategy, ya'll cast in Grey's Anatomy Pretend to be surgeons, real n***as touch hearts My soul is stained gla**, look through my eyes and see the art Happily remove the shades, now witness the Andy Warhol Van Gogh, Leonardo, Basquiat, Pica**o, Matisse, Michelangelo, Salvadore Marco de [?] flow [Conversation] (lady: ) To me, L.A. means home, sunny skies and happy people) (man: ) Whenever I think L.A., I think sunshine, [tupie?] (lady: ) Palm trees, good weed and bad b**hes like me (man: ) Swimming pool, a sunny Chrimtmas, you and I, Venice Beach (man: ) Los Angeles means lust (man: ) Hollywood, Beverly Hills, American Excess (man: ) Worldwide entertainment (man: ) Hey, I love L.A. and the Lakers? Mean the world [Verse 2 Thurz] City of dreams, [har?] [P?] With a snare, gasoline dreams spark it with a flare And hope to blow up for the best You never want a nightmare, people come here get robbed with [goals/ golds?] with hardware Cats will raise a gun before they raise a kid I guess new fathers of warfare Bullets go platinum every year Invest in a hefty share, and fire back To preserve that, feed that dream between ears Some dreams they dream, some dreams they come true I represent that city on that Dodger blue Rico, no [pubic/ public?] rep, purple and gold Cats fade without clippers, sharp shoot your angels Salute a king, whether on ice or at war [Or marching on gravel, provide salutations?] City of little conversation, long stares, complicates it's cold cases Transplant faces, brothers, sisters mothers Everybody trying to make it It's L.A