Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right up, East Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right
Oakland, California, West life You either play the or you smoke the pipe I became a at the age fourteen No gold ropes, no rings
But look at me now, ten years Ask any MC if I rap See I'm in Fresno, even the big O From San to Sacramento
They'll tell you yes, you go And I bet my life one say no Ain't nothing like a Too fan I ain't tripping, you can play it
Don't the feeling, life is me I shows in Nashville, Tennessee It wasn't "Hee Haw," so don't At the good ol' getting autographs
In Cincinnati, I you heard I got for the cuss words true, baby, so so unique Might slap your man or just thump freak
I come to town, I'm not under I want your name and your number You I'm faking, but I'll call We got one night to do it all
I know baby such a pity Tomorrow night, we hit city Cold macking in the is all we do Me and the boys "The Dangerous Crew"
I to be local till I signed with Jive Too then went nationwide I to Georgia with the Too $hort sound I went like Bobby Brown
I a rap and they took me to jail Pulled out my bank and bail This is my story, it could not It all started out in the State
California, I was born and raised I used to play the drum in my days I hit that beat any way I can Smooth high-stepping in the band
I in my drum and I started to rap Now beats I make, make my so fat It's Too $hort, on the mic Pennsylvania, can you see the
Chicago, to Indiana From Mississippi, to Louisiana, Texas Females, call me
But don't they love it, you me nasty in a room trying to blow me Like engine, engine, number Homies run a train, in line
If that train off the track Then my brother you will catch the Colorado, to Arizona All the way back home to
In Chattanooga, they the tip Short Dog in the house, I'm that Getting clip, or playing I can't help it I'm so cool
Call me 'Dog' or leave me I'm riding in a Fleetwood Chrome With Too Clean, behind the I'm riding shotgun, for real
boss in the back, give me supersede They like to roll 'em fat cause you know we To the y'all, and it don't stop It goes on cause I don't rapping
Now you know, but the Dog in me You love to me and I still act stingy Oh I pay you? You must be tripping I didn't buy you and I sure renting
I said "I love you" 'cause you me head I didn't you when we got out the bed If I could love you, you know I But what you giving, ain't all that
A little hospitality You'd try to get away from me I love money, and I just fake it I go to Magic City and the dance naked
I'm somewhat of a by the way I rap But I'm like an Oak town mack I'm in the house y'all, I'm peeser, y'all Rat heads get but cheese, y'all
Or get slapped, put up your I kick you in your ass with my Nike Some rappers try to be just Too $hort Can hang with the Dog, you'd better on the porch
In Minnesota, Virginia Wisconsin, I got Atlanta, Little Louisville, it stop
Kansas City, I rock the house in St. Louis Detroit, it's like a black thing, and I'm a black man
To all my in the U.S.A. Too $hort baby don't play Woofers in the trunk, the beat I cross the bridge and hit street
Years ago, I rocked that I say what's up to my homies from Hunter's We go a long way back, it's always been like In the days Short Dog was so young at the rap I'm in the
up, East Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right up, East Oakland, yeah, that's right