Bambu - Where You From lyrics

"May I introduce a city? That
Is changing every moment
It's a charming contradiction a
Prize for everyone"

If you are from Los Angeles, stand tall
Hope I made my city proud cause
I get down for y'all
From Jordan's old soul food on Wilmington
To Tommy's on Rampart, we living in
A city with no pity smog make lung shitty
Children up at 6: 00 to
Get bused across the city
Laying off teachers economy weaker
I watch graduation from under
The school bleachers
All my friends had dropped out early
America justice done did my homie's so dirty
Prison over tagging or prison over some bud
We get medical marijuana
Ro was holding a dub
Now, up in the clouds touching
Down to a crowd
Waiting for me to say something
Special over a sound
A city drown in the sun
That Hollywood shit fake
Spotlights from a helicopter shine on my face
We push carts full of plastic trying
To make a quick buck
Mad dogging my brothers to hit
'em up where you from
From the city with no pity
Skid Row to Venice
City development is kicking out
Life long tenets

So where you from?
Throw your neighborhood like you proud
You don't need to catch a body
To show how much you down
This for my cousins who caught it
All my friends who ain't here
Los Angeles looking different every year
So tell 'em where you from where you from?
Where you from? Where you from?
Where you from? Uh, huh
Where you from? Where you from?
Where you from? Where you from?
Where you from? Uh, huh uh huh
Show me where you from

Babies killing babies make me crazy
The rappers glorify how we
Survive through this bangin'
Politicians speaking for money and
Not the needy
Seedy, greedy with beedie little
Eyes feeding the beast
So while Eazy-E up at Ceders
I'm hustling off my beeper
Playing the diggy Doc on
My grandmama's speakers
Teachers kick me out of class so fast
And all of my OG's had my back so fast
So who you think I trusted?
Eyes closed when I'm jumped in
Brainwashed beef made killing feel
Like it's nothing
From a gang that started out
As just a car club
Other gangs popping so Satanas
Got to arming up
And now I work to end all the killing
My peers in the street
Corrupted our young children
If you really from the days that you claim
Then why would you want our kids
To go through the same thang?
From PR to Hellside, Sarzana to Flipside
Asia Boys to JEFROX tRG on the east side
I really wanna see up grow old
I know that going to war is
All the homie's really know
Them Temple Street TL's aKRHO and Tau Gamma
Them school yards, Bahala Nas
This is my plea to see some peace
For all our fallen brothers RIP it with me