California love

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

The Boga tree, the hip-hop Malcolm X style Muslimeen,
Pass by with a wise word, and keep it fly..
Cats at muscle beach droppin a freestyle rhyme
The sunshine even in the winter time,
The 5 lane highways, the mountains, the brown and baysh houses,
Burger joints you can go In and Out, and, Del Taco, the mexicano
AM and PM gas stations, Cali people keep it real no fakin... so.......

So that's why I had to go back.....
To recapture that spirit I once had, so I travelled that 8 mile path,
But this 8 mile of mine was actually down highway 395
If I can remember right, awww, the street signs,
The mix races, just humble people keepin it real gettin by,
The Cali Chronic keeps the Rasta man high...
Lucky Dube says respect the Rasta man, and I listen when he talks,
Yo, I've been to Africa and even walked across streets of Mekkah with Holy thoughts,
But even that Mekkah thing was something inspired and planned in California's sand...
So many amazing, immaculate, and magnificent things,
Happened to me when I was in Cali, I even met the girl of my dreams,
This was all back in 02 and 03, and today I was revisiting...
...and remembering, just floating and riding the wave positive karma brings,
My steps then were in earnest, it was before kids and divorces,
Before being the poorest, before being ignored by the women I adored...
Because I couldn't afford what her father wanted....
....I will let Lucky Dube tell it.....

"Her mother didn't like it!"
"Her father didn't like it!"
"The only thing that kept them going was........
LOVE!!!!!! Will conquer Alll All...."

Yes, we were lovers in a dangerous time,
And she was compatible with the consciousness that existed within the inner crevices of my mind,
She was all mine, I was all hers, I did it all for Allah...
Years later I would fall, and it all.... ended up nowhere!
But see back then in Cali I was away from home so I had no fear,
Clean karma and energy Cali was so good to me,
Even if I was failing or somebody let me down,
I used to turn the world upside down, and pick myself back off the ground,
Yo for real.... Cali made me in 03....
Its cause of Cali that I had the courage to chase my dreams,
Its cause of Cali that I was in Oman overlooking the Arabian sea,
Its cause of Cali, that Islam purified me and made me clean....
I'm takin it back like Talib Kweli....

"I dive deep into my mind, see, I got a treasury, that floats thru my head like a sweet melody"

...Its cause of Cali that I met my Sufi mentor named Mehdi,
It was in Cali that he told me....
"I'm trying to protect u from the bad but at the same time allowing u to be free....
What could be better than that?

Cause then.....
What was the aftermath....
When I went back to my old city...
I went back to bad karma....
I went back to lost hopes and dreams...
I went back to others expectations....
I went back to others fakeness....

So forever yo I regret the day,
That I ever left Cali.....

...cause since I've lost my way. 

[Joseph Bonanno]

dont come back

[Nat Turner-reincarnated]

nice

[QuietTruth]

Least you doin' it wit love, propz nigga.