Yeah, we gettin' real on this y'all You know I'm hearin' all these rumors out 'bout They ran $hort Dogg up outta East Nigga to Atlanta, ain't got no mo' love in the town I got much in Oakland y'all You what I'm sayin' I been doin this shit fo' years So I'm a tell it to you juss like it happened,
I don't stop rappin', ever since the very day I grabbed the microphone, made a funky ass I had sixteen hoes, ten toes from the "O", an' any real pimp knows The only love hoes get is what paid fo' Gimme my scratch, what the fuck I'm a fo'? I gotta make moves bitch, some G's From the stroll to my fax machine
I got comin' in from everywhere From New York to L.A., to the fuckin' Bay, it's true I'm the man G, I'm 106 can't ban me All on the air sayin' they fuck wit me no mo' I go back wit rap like From the very time I grabbed the mic Niggaz smokin' burner, ready to I don't promote violence, I'm Oakland where the real kick it
You might get killed nigga or make a ticket Move down 'cuz the town is wild Now the radio jocks wanna my style I raised too many you support Ask 'em who they grew up on, Too all that black ball shit, it won't last K M E L, y'all can my ass
That's why the town got rid 'o That's why the got rid 'o $hort
It all back when C and H to T, B, tryin' to playa hate I a brand new Lexus, 93 Joda Balls called me up, said, "Ya to me" He said, "I heard you an' got the cash an' split it If I don't get my cut, you mutha fuckaz get it" It was thirteen G's, all mine, didn't give Gram one dime Now listen real 'cuz it might be hard to follow
Chris Ted it was fifty thousand dollaz Shit sound an' it is But that's how it goes you in show biz Niggaz out, should be makin' millions of studios, we seein' lawyers in buildings Then we stop speakin', got funky I don't give a fuck, get my money I ain't never been a hoe, you pimp me
I do all the work while you me I tried to buy him out but about then let the lions out, niggaz start eatin' that shit up You shoulda never I'm always on this money mission Sold a car an' a truck in fo' that Lex Jock loaned me five an' I was rollin' that
That's why the got rid 'o $hort (Don't everythang you hear, nigga) why the town got rid 'o $hort
I to the freak-nik, shit turned me out back fo' Jack the Rapper Bought me a house, that was August '93, to dip I hade warrants in the town an' I was hot as Everytime I got stopped, nigga went to me bad 'cuz I was hangin' wit criminals I wanted to buy me a in the Oakland Hills Nice lil' somethin' fo' a a mill
That's was right the time Chris hooked Dru down The luniz came through an' them tricks got Rappin' Ron tore 'em up on the tip An' niggaz ain't ran nobody outta Then they put it on the town, got real you was in the fourth grade I had a record deal You got one hit now you ballin' You make one fake album, be fallin'
An' that shit apply to me present or past You can me at the mall an' get my autograph Or you can flash back, if you can do all Me Fred Benz an' Freddy Smokin' burner upstairs in hot house It's been fifteen years an' I played out They Too $hort steppin' on a Chevy pedal in the days K M E L played heavy metal
That's why the got rid 'o $hort That's why the got rid 'o $hort
Niggaz shootin' at the late at night Seen a Charokee, started at Spice At the picnic out in the park gather 'round fo' some shit to start They had bullets wit my name but we got to me See me sucka mutha shootin' at the street It was me, Boo, Howard, an' Jock, a clip One in the chamber an' it T.B. Still tryin' to be my I could lose my life or give my to him I'd die before you use me I tried to buy him out, the nigga me
An' that's where it right now y'all Fo' the mutha fuckaz that know Like the notorious say, "If you know, now you know"