Yeah, we gettin' real on this album You know I'm hearin' all these rumors out here They ran $hort Dogg up outta Oakland moved to Atlanta, ain't got no mo' love in the town I got love in Oakland y'all You know I'm sayin' I been doin this shit fo' years So I'm a tell it to you like it happened, bitch
I don't stop rappin', ever since the very day I grabbed the microphone, made a funky ass I had sixteen hoes, ten toes Game the "O", an' any real pimp knows The love hoes get is what they paid fo' Gimme my scratch, the fuck I'm a stay fo'? I gotta make moves bitch, stack G's From the whole 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 they don't fuck wit me no mo' I go wit rap like K-P-O-O From the very time I grabbed the mic Niggaz smokin' burner, to fight I don't promote violence, I'm from Oakland the real kick it
You might get killed nigga or make a mill Move down South 'cuz the is wild Now the radio wanna clown my style I raised too many rappers you Ask 'em who grew up on, Too $hort all that black ball shit, it won't last K M E L, y'all can my ass
why the town got rid 'o $hort That's why the town got rid 'o
It all started back C and H to T, B, tryin' to playa hate I a brand new Lexus, 93 Joda Balls me up, said, "Ya lyin' to me" He said, "I heard you an' Ryan got the cash an' it If I don't get my cut, you mutha fuckaz get it" It was thirteen G's, all mine, didn't Teddy Gram one dime Now listen real close 'cuz it might be hard to
Chris Ted it was fifty thousand dollaz sound petty an' it is But how it goes when you in show biz Niggaz fallin' out, be makin' millions Instead of studios, we lawyers in buildings Then we speakin', shit got funky I don't give a fuck, muthafucka get my 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 They let the lions out, niggaz eatin' that shit up You shoulda never I'm always on money makin' mission Sold a car an' a truck in fo' that Lex Jock loaned me five an' I was rollin' bitch
That's why the got rid 'o $hort (Don't everythang you hear, nigga) why the town got rid 'o $hort
I went to the freak-nik, shit me out Came back fo' Jack the me a house, that was August '93, time to dip I hade warrants in the an' I was hot as shit 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 around the time hooked Dru down The luniz came through an' tricks got clowned Ron tore 'em up on the freestyle tip An' niggaz ran nobody outta shit Then they put it on the town, got real When you was in the fourth I had a record deal You got one hit record now you You one fake album, you'll be fallin'
An' shit don't 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 burner upstairs in hot lips house It's fifteen years an' I ain't played out They playin' Too $hort steppin' on a Chevy Back in the K M E L played heavy metal
why the town got rid 'o $hort That's why the town got rid 'o
Niggaz at the studio late at night a Charokee, started shootin' at Spice At the picnic out in the park Niggaz gather 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 full One in the an' it blockin' T.B. Still to be my pimp I could lose my life or give my to him I'd rather die you use me I tried to buy him out, the sued me
An' that's where it stands right now Fo' the mutha fuckaz that know Like the say, "If you don't know, now you know"