(Intro)

{Yeah, yeah}

{Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah}

(Verse One)

I was just a young boy

Raised out in Carson

Ambla Elementary

Principal Dr. Larson

Me and my godbrotha

Tyrin Davis

Walkin down the hallways

He got all the ladies

I was just a nappy head

Livin on the 9 block

'ready went to Bedcross

I was at the chronic spot

Did a lil' rooster

And my homey shantwain-

And the homey Big B

Put me on the game

The big homey solo

Told me not to bang

He told me don't put

My career to a shame

But I did, anyway

And I got in trouble but

I had the hookup on the hundred dolla double ups

My nigga E-dog... he had the flow

And when I snuck out my window

I used to go smoke up his endo

Oh

(Hook)

Cen...ter...view

{I grew up in the little town called}

Cen... {oh yea} ter...view {oh, yes I did}

{I did a little bit of dirt in}

Cen...ter...{oh, yes I did} view

{aww yes I did}

(Verse Two)

My dad was always at Church

Working in his office

And my cousin Ryan got a

Scholarship to college

Everything start happening

All so quick- fast

I got on a TV show

And started to make cash

My sister's on the radio

Banging through the stereo

I remember when we used to go

Skate at Skate Depot

Damn those were the days

Things just ain't the same

And to my little homey D-O

You gotta be careful in this game

(Hook)

Cen...ter {oh yes you do}...view

{Listen, I was raised in a little town called}

Cen... {oh} ter... {yea} view {you see}

{I did a little dirt in}

Cen {in} ...ter...{in, in} view

{in Centerview, ay ay ay...}

(Bridge)

Guess who I do it back

So all I do is that

So how I'm giving back

Put my city on the map

That's why I do it back

First time I held this track

So how I'm giving back

Put my city on the map

(Verse Three)

In Cen...ter...view

Oh, I used to take the circuit bus

To the Carson mall

To go buy cans of spray paint to

Hit up on the walls

I was young and dumb

I was livin' crazy

But thank God for my family, cuz

Man they really saved me, yeah

{Oh-oh, oh-oh

Oh-oh, oh-oh}

To everybody in my city

That remembers good times, oh oh

{Oh-oh, oh-oh

Oh-oh, oh-oh}

I took a ride back to Carson

Just to hug a few friends, oh oh

{Oh-oh, oh-oh

Oh-oh, oh-oh}

You see, I know I can get you chillin

On the block around ten, Oh oh

{Oh-oh, oh-oh

Oh-oh, oh-oh}

Ay, And all the soldiers that didn't go

Who are locked up in the pen

Woah...

In Centerview, Yeah

Woah... woah...

Well homey, this one's for you

(Hook)

Cen...{you, you}ter...view

{You see, I was raised in a little town called}

Cen... {oh yea, yea} ter... view

{haha and uh- I did a little dirt in}

Cen {oh}...ter...{ooh} view

Cen...ter...view

Cen...ter...view

Cen...ter...view

(Bridge)

Guess who I do it back

So all I do is that

So how I'm giving back

Put my city on the map

That's why I do it back

First time I held this track

So how I'm giving back

Put my city on the map

East side up

West Coast

I'm out