Yeah, we gettin' real on this album You know I'm hearin' all these out here 'bout They ran Dogg up outta East Oakland Nigga moved to Atlanta, got no mo' love in the town I got much love in Oakland You what I'm sayin' I been doin this shit fo' years So I'm a it to you juss like it happened, bitch
I don't stop rappin', ever the very first day I the microphone, made a funky ass tape I had sixteen hoes, ten toes Game from the "O", an' any pimp knows The only love hoes get is what paid fo' Gimme my scratch, what the fuck I'm a stay I gotta make moves bitch, stack G's the whole stroll to my fax machine
I got comin' in from everywhere From New York to L.A., to the mutha 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 back wit rap K-P-O-O From the very first I grabbed the mic Niggaz smokin' burner, to fight I promote violence, I'm from Oakland where the real kick it
You might get nigga or make a mill ticket Move down South 'cuz the town is Now the radio jocks clown my style I too many rappers you support Ask 'em who grew up on, Too $hort Fuck all 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 got rid 'o $hort
It all back when C and H to T, B, tryin' to playa hate I flipped a new Lexus, 93 Joda called me up, said, "Ya lyin' to me" He said, "I you an' Ryan got the cash an' split it If I get my cut, you mutha fuckaz gonna get it" It was G's, all mine, didn't give Teddy Gram one dime Now listen real close it might be hard to follow
told Ted it was fifty thousand dollaz Shit sound an' it is But that's how it when you in show biz Niggaz fallin' out, be makin' millions Instead of studios, we lawyers in buildings Then we stop speakin', got funky I don't a fuck, muthafucka 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 right about They let the lions out, niggaz start eatin' shit up You shoulda listened I'm on this money makin' mission Sold a car an' a truck in Oakland fo' Lex Jock me five an' I was rollin' that bitch
That's why the town got rid 'o (Don't everythang you hear, nigga) That's why the got rid 'o $hort
I went to the freak-nik, turned me out Came back fo' the Rapper Bought me a house, that was August '93, to dip I warrants in the town an' I was hot as shit Everytime I got stopped, nigga to jail Treat me bad 'cuz I was wit criminals I to buy me a house in the Oakland Hills Nice somethin' fo' a half a mill
That's was right around the time Chris Dru down The luniz through an' them tricks got clowned Rappin' Ron 'em up on the freestyle tip An' niggaz ain't ran nobody shit they put it on the town, shit got real When you was in the fourth I had a record deal You got one hit now you ballin' You make one fake album, be fallin'
An' that shit don't 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 in hot lips house It's been years an' I ain't played out playin' Too $hort steppin' on a Chevy pedal Back in the days K M E L played metal
why the town got rid 'o $hort That's why the got rid 'o $hort
Niggaz at the studio late at night Seen a Charokee, started at Spice At the picnic out in the park Niggaz gather 'round fo' some shit to They had bullets wit my name but we got to me See me sucka fucka shootin' at the street It was me, Boo, Howard, an' Jock, a full One in the an' it blockin' T.B. tryin' 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 nigga me
An' that's where it stands now y'all Fo' the mutha fuckaz that know Like the notorious say, "If you know, now you know"