Kimchi - The Koreatown Oddity

The place where I be at, it ain’t all kimchi

Seeing tags on the wall just to remind me

Same place where they shot up Robert F. Kennedy

Is the same place that brought up a young nigga like me

Buildings get bombed on immediately

When abandoned by every kind of graffiti piece

apartments, restaurants and stores

Since I came into this world in 1984

See my mom crying on the house phone with the cord

Before w was able to switch it up for the cordless

See my pops chopping up gam on that payphone

Checking his pager, responding to clients that weren’t important

Sometimes I got the short end of the stick

When it came to me, business or women and he had to pick

I wouldn’t change a bit, it helped me grow thick skin

Didn’t see him all the time but yo when I did

Constantly dropping gems, never talked to me like a kid

Even though they never lived under the same roof

Separately what my parents both taught me was truth

Discomfort as a youth was something that I got used to

Doing death-defying acts in my early pursuits

The place where I be at, it ain’t all kimchi

Seeing tags on the wall just to remind me

Same place where they shot up Robert F. Kennedy

Is the same place that brought up a young nigga like me

Mom said you can’t wear any old thing

An education on colors if you know what I mean

A little black man is all people gon' see

So watch out for everybody not just the police

When you black in L.A. hey that’s the routine

It’s a shame everyday hearing about some shootings

Dominique do your thing you a young black king

Keep believing in your dreams cause your path is unique

People say if you move are you gonna change your name

Well it ain’t as simple as that so let me explain

I shed blood sweat and tears on the sidewalk and streets

So a bitch can’t tell me life ain’t that deep

Telling jokes on stage 14, 15

Recording raps on tape simultaneously

Bust my first nut, lost my virginity

At the crib going raw with this broad

I was scared as shit, thought I got her pregnant

But I guess from the beginning my pullout game was excellent

Some highschool mother fuckers that I trusted as brothers

Broke into my crib and stole shit 'cause they was jealous

And I know who did it

But my pops said let it go

What goes around comes around right on schedule

The place where I’m found wasn’t always called Korea Town

And from back then 'til now the percentage is mostly brown