California Genesis

Landing on this Earth, the beginning of my verse
Since a young child, I've been grappling my curse
Gravel on my shirt, it's that Filipino dirt
Mama took me out to fly to California earth
Still I went to church 'cause my Titas love the word
My Uncle was a priest and his homilies superb
This before I sat and wrote my own and sipped the milk to grow the bones
Before the quill took all my ills and healed the nerves
Dudes who rocked Girbauds, Kobe rocking 24
FM Radio, The Bone, Laffy Taffy, Rolling Stone
Southing music had the throne, Monta Ellis was the pro
Simply uniforms, khaki slacks was just a no
Daly City in this soul, fundamentals of my prose
Parents had divorce, yeah my pops was sipping loads
Slipping on the slope, but I'm chilling on the coast
California coast, this that California flow

That's California for ya
Everybody in your city wave
Every city very different wav
Imma hit up every city's stage
That's California for ya
Everybody in your city wave
Every city very different wav
Imma hit up every city's stage

California coast, but I don't know how to float
Let alone know how to stroke, doggy paddling the most
I was flowing on the low, pen and paddling I row
Steady mastering the flow
Over rapids, I uphold
The foundation of canoe, I'm never tipping over
To the Mission, I would go
Bart to 24th, I wrote many quotes
I was so-so, but Joey let me vibe
Exhilarating ride in debilitating times
Accumulating rhyme, filling up my vacant mind
Chasing the divine that was hurt from my divide
Renovate my shine as I regulate my pride
Open up my eye, that could open up the sky
It's that good labor, the Labor of Love
Thank the above for the flavors and such
It's Rudeboi from the ash and the cyclical dust
Keep it a buck, mothafucka
Is you feeling the bump?

That's California for ya
Everybody in your city wave
Every city very different wav
Imma hit up every city's stage
That's California for ya
Everybody in your city wave
Every city very different wav
Imma hit up every city's stage