Palmdale
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Hip-Hop/Rap
Palmdale was released on August 28, 2001 by Universal Records as a part of the album The Good Times
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Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Yeah
Yeah
[Verse 2]
Just like bums, we used to stay
In the slums of LA, by the way
Gang bangers killin' each other for reps
Sellin' rock cocaine on my doorsteps
[Verse 3]
Had a ball to bounce plus a bike to ride
But my mama never would let me play outside
But when I got enrolled in elementary school
Started bangin' like a fuckin' fool, so cool
[Verse 4]
Throwin' up gang signs to the gangster beat
Shot an enemy from across the street
Mama came home, said she got a good job
Daddy did too, now they don't squab
[Verse 5]
Financially, we improvin'
Two months later, son we movin'
No more duckin' from shotgun shells
Bought a two-story house in East Palmdale
Give it to me now
[Verse 6]
(Palmdale, come back to me)
I need you and I love you, baby
(Palmdale, come back to me)
[Verse 7]
Check it out, check it out, check it out
No more rats and no more roaches
Livin' next door to football coaches
Now I got a new place to sell my crack
Now I got little white kids to jack
[Verse 8]
I start wearin' blue, wasn't trippin' on red
Too busy squabblin' with the skinheads
Stupid questions, distract the class
Rubbin' little white girls on the ass
[Verse 9]
I didn't really care if I passed or failed
I knew I was headed for the NFL
Until the playoff game, shoulder got hurt
I thought about my future, laying in the dirt
[Verse 10]
I can't jump, I can't flinch
Superstar player, ridin' the bench
Graduate from school? Don't make me laugh
I got a F+ in Basic Math
Give it to me now
[Verse 11]
(Palmdale, come back to me)
Hell yeah
Uh, I gotta do one song for my neighborhood, b-gock
(Palmdale, come back to me)
Uh, uh, check it out
[Verse 12]
I knew I couldn't make it in the white man's world
So I bought me some khakis and a Jheri curl
I knew I couldn't make it to the NFL
I went to East Palmdale and started slangin' yell
[Verse 13]
Fo sure, I was makin' crazy dough
Should've dropped out of school a long time ago
Bought a cell phone, like a nut
Now I deliver like Pizza Hut
[Verse 14]
I drunk whiskey and Bacardi
I sold dope to anybody
Me and my homies sold dubs and dimes
Took turns bustin' rhymes just to pass the time
[Verse 15]
A white man drove up to my spot, he said
Hey, homeboy, what you got?
I put a fat rock inside his hand
About twenty-five sheriffs jumped out the van
Get down, punk
[Verse 16]
(Palmdale, come back to me)
Hell yeah
Uh, I need you and I love you, baby
(Palmdale, come back to me)
Uh, check it out, check it out, check it out
[Verse 17]
Can't get drunk, can't get blunted
L.A. County, ninety-five hundred
Crips wanna take my All-Stars
Bloods wanna eat my Snicker bars
[Verse 18]
Them peckerwoods don't want none
But the Mexicans straight own one
Them eses, catorces, treses
Always tryin' to test me
[Verse 19]
So I jumped off the bed 'cause I ain't no punk
Jammed his head up against the bunk
Socked that cholo in his chin
Black motherfuckers scared to jump in
[Verse 20]
Sheriff broke it up when we hit the floor
I kept talkin' shit 'cause I want some more
Back in town, we get along with the brown
Now I'm jail, they tryin' to beat me down
[Verse 21]
Jail is hell but I'll adapt
Won't hesitate to get in a scrap
'Cause I'm down for mine, and that's for certain
Sittin' in the hole with my knuckles hurtin'
[Verse 22]
Palmdale
(Palmdale, come back to me)
Hell yeah
I need you and I love you, baby
(Palmdale, come back to me)
Yeah, check it out, homeboy
[Verse 23]
Uh, now I got a fucked up life
Two bad kids and a naggin' wife
Dead end job at the airport
Check too short to pay the house note
[Verse 24]
Turn on the TV, then I see
Different homeboys that went to school with me
Playin' in the NFL
We used to kick back in East Palmdale
[Verse 25]
Rodney Williams, Larenz Tate, Zeno play for Colorado State
I wish my homeboys much success
But at the same time I still get depressed
[Verse 26]
Walkin' through the wind with a cup full of gin
Thinkin' 'bout things I coulda would shoulda been
I wipe my tears, sip my beers
Wish good luck to my peers
[Verse 27]
Palmdale
(Palmdale, come back to me)
I need you and I love you, baby
(Palmdale, come back to me)
Palmdale
'Cause that's where my heartache began
[Verse 28]
Heartache began
(Palmdale, come back to me)
Palmdale
Huh, I need you and I love you, baby
(Palmdale, come back to me)
Oh yeah
'Cause that's where my heartache began
Heartache began
[Verse 29]
(Palmdale, come back to me)
Yeah, uh
Hey, all the homeboys on the football team
Where y'all at, man?
Uh yeah
And wherever you at in the world
I don't care if you in Japan, Africa
(Palmdale, come back to me)
Hey, you know how we used to do it, man
[Verse 30]
Hey, hey, hey, yo, let me get a Palm (Palm)
Yo, let me get a dale (Dale)
Yo, what do we sell? (Yell)
Hey, where we gonna go? (We gonna go back to jail)
[Verse 31]
Yo, let me get a Palm (Palm)
Yo, let me get a dale (Dale)
Yo, what do we sell? (Yell)
Yo, where we gonna go? (We gonna go back to jail)
[Verse 32]
Yo, let me get a Palm (Palm)
Yo, let me get a dale (Dale)
Yo, what do we sell? (Yell)
Hey, where we gonna go? (We gonna go back to jail)
[Verse 33]
One more time, yo, let me get a Palm (Palm)
Yo, let me get a dale (Dale)
Yo, what do we sell? (Yell)
Hey, where we gonna go? (We gonna go back to jail)
[Verse 34]
(Dale, Palmdale) Hey, c'mon, uh, everybody just clap your hands
(Dale, Palmdale) C'mon, c'mon, c'mon
(Dale, Palmdale) Yo, fuck AV, come on, y'all
(Dale, Palmdale) Ha ha, where them Falcons at? What?
(Palmdale) It ain't over till the fat man sings
(Dale) Little Rock can't get none, what, what
(Palmdale)
(Dale)
(Palmdale)
Written by: Joseph Foreman, Stevie Hill
