"Welcome to California"
Can you dig that?
"Welcome to California"
"Money the only thing that counts here"
"Welcome to California"
Can you dig that?
"Welcome to California"
"Life is a bitch out here"
Can you dig that?

The lights, the glimmer
Shooting stars and beautiful women (Wow)
Dice games and dominoes
Presidential Obama flows (Flows)
Rivers drip with tadpoles (What?)
Night clubs with bad hoes (Ooh)
Neighborhoods with liquor stores
And foes and baggy clothes
I gotta get this dope sold (Yeah, what?)
Bang, bang the lifestyle (Bang)
Too bright, we might turn your lights down
Cut off your water
Put him on the set just for startеrs (What up, cuz?)
Enjoy the trip, blaze up a spliff, ride down thе strip
(Ayy, what up, nigga?)
Get you some Hen or get you some juice and mix it with gin
Send flicks to the pen

Welcome to California"
Can you dig that?
"Welcome to California"
"Money the only thing that counts here"
"Welcome to California"
Can you dig that?
"Welcome to California"
"Life is a bitch out here"
Can you dig that?

Taught y'all the recipe
That West Coast mentality (West, West)
Tupac and Ice Cube
Short Dog and 40 water (Yeah)
Ice-T and Eazy-E
Quik put you on a B, I put you on a C
DPG, away with gunplay and let the beef cease
Peace to the gods (Peace)
And all the G's on the yard (What up, homie?)
Born raised to squab
Hustle hard and ball, it pays to be hard
Trickle down and pick it up
Pistol out, stick 'em up (Stick 'em up)
Yup, yup we got it
Cocked back my heat for the dearly departed
Tricks are for kids

"Welcome to California"
Can you dig that?
"Welcome to California"
"Money the only thing that counts here"
Welcome to California"
Can you dig that? (West Coast)
"Welcome to California"
"Life is a bitch out here"
Can you dig that?

Dig that, DJ Premier
Big Snoop Dogg
Can't spell the West without the E-S, yessir
We been doing this shit, mane, 'bout twenty-five, twenty-six
Shit, I don't know, we just been doing it
It's a groove thang, mane