Yeah, we gettin' real on this y'all You I'm hearin' all these rumors out here 'bout They ran $hort Dogg up East Oakland Nigga to Atlanta, ain't got no mo' love in the town I got love in Oakland y'all You know what I'm sayin' I been this shit fo' years So I'm a tell it to you like it happened, bitch
I stop rappin', ever since the very first 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' my scratch, what the fuck I'm a stay fo'? I make moves bitch, stack some G's From the whole stroll to my fax
I got money comin' in everywhere From New York to L.A., to the fuckin' Bay, it's true I'm the man G, I'm underground 106 ban me All on the air sayin' don't fuck wit me no mo' I go wit rap like K-P-O-O From the very first I grabbed the mic smokin' burner, ready to fight I don't promote violence, I'm from Oakland where the real it
You might get nigga or make a mill ticket Move South 'cuz the town is wild Now the jocks wanna clown my style I too many rappers you support Ask 'em who they grew up on, Too 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 town got rid 'o
It all started back C and H Went to T, B, to playa hate I a brand 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 don't get my cut, you fuckaz gonna get it" It was thirteen G's, all mine, didn't give Teddy Gram one Now listen real close 'cuz it might be to follow
Chris told Ted it was thousand dollaz Shit petty an' it is But that's how it goes when you in biz Niggaz fallin' out, be makin' millions Instead of studios, we lawyers in buildings we stop speakin', shit got funky I don't give a fuck, muthafucka get my I ain't been a hoe, you can't pimp me
I do all the while you pimp me I tried to buy him out but about then They let the lions out, niggaz eatin' that shit up You never listened I'm always on this money makin' Sold a car an' a truck in Oakland fo' Lex Jock loaned me five an' I was rollin' that
That's why the town got rid 'o (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, was August '93, time to dip I hade warrants in the an' I was hot as shit Everytime I got stopped, went to jail Treat me bad 'cuz I was hangin' wit I to buy me a house in the Oakland Hills lil' somethin' fo' a half a mill
That's was right around the Chris hooked Dru down The came through an' them tricks got clowned Rappin' Ron 'em up on the freestyle tip An' niggaz ain't ran nobody outta Then they put it on the town, shit got When you was in the fourth grade I had a record You got one hit record now you You make one fake album, be fallin'
An' that shit don't apply to me present or You can meet me at the an' get my autograph Or you can flash back, if you can do all Me Fred an' Freddy Craps Smokin' burner upstairs in hot house been 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 shootin' at the late at night Seen a Charokee, started shootin' at At the E-40 picnic out in the Niggaz 'round fo' some shit to start had bullets wit my name but we never got to me See me sucka mutha shootin' at the street It was me, Boo, Howard, an' Jock, a full One in the chamber an' it 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 to buy him out, the nigga sued me
An' that's where it stands now y'all Fo' the fuckaz that don't know Like the notorious say, "If you know, now you know"