Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right Moving up, Oakland, yeah, that's right Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, right
Oakland, California, West life You either play the game or you the pipe I became a at the age fourteen No gold ropes, no diamond
But look at me now, ten years Ask any MC if I rap See I'm known in Fresno, the big O From San Diego to
They'll you yes, wherever you go And I bet my won't one say no Ain't like a Too $hort fan I tripping, you can play it again
fight the feeling, life is me I rock shows in Nashville, It "Hee Haw," so don't laugh At the good ol' boys autographs
In Cincinnati, I you heard I got fined for the words true, baby, so so unique Might your man or just thump your freak
I come to your town, I'm not 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 it's such a pity Tomorrow night, we hit another Cold macking in the is all we do Me and the called "The Dangerous Crew"
I used to be local till I signed Jive Too $hort then nationwide I went to Georgia the Too $hort sound I went down Bobby Brown
I said a rap and they me to jail Pulled out my bank and bail is my story, it could not wait It all started out in the Golden
California, where I was born and I used to the drum in my younger days I hit that beat any way I can Smooth in the marching band
I in my drum and I started to rap Now beats I make, my bank so fat It's Too $hort, on the mic Pennsylvania, can you see the
From Chicago, to Mississippi, to Alabama Louisiana, even Females, me sexist
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 you will catch the clap From Colorado, to All the way back to California
In Chattanooga, they the tip Short Dog in the house, I'm flip clip, or playing pool I can't it I'm so damn cool
Call me 'Dog' or leave me I'm in a Cadillac Fleetwood Chrome With Too Clean, behind the I'm riding shotgun, for real
Total boss in the back, me supersede They to roll 'em fat cause you know we ride To the y'all, and it don't stop It goes on cause I stop 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 buy you and I sure ain't renting
I said "I you" 'cause you gave me head I didn't you when we got out the bed If I love you, you know I would But what you giving, all that good
A little southern better try to get away from me I love money, and I just fake it I go to Magic City and the girls naked
I'm somewhat of a by the way I rap But I'm like an Oak town mack I'm in the y'all, I'm like peeser, y'all Rat heads get but cheese, y'all
Or get slapped, put up your I kick you in your ass with my boots rappers try to be just like Too $hort Can hang the Dog, you'd better stay on the porch
In Minnesota, Beach Wisconsin, I got Atlanta, Rock Louisville, it don't
Kansas City, I rock the in East St. Louis Detroit, like Oakland It's a black thing, and I'm a man
To all my in the U.S.A. Too baby don't even play Woofers in the trunk, blasting the I cross the bridge and hit third
Years ago, I rocked joint I say what's up to my from Hunter's Point We go a long way back, it's been like that In the days Short Dog was so young at the rap I'm in the
Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's Moving up, East Oakland, yeah, that's up, East Oakland, yeah, that's right