Yeah, we real on this album y'all You know I'm hearin' all these out here 'bout They ran $hort up outta East Oakland Nigga moved to Atlanta, ain't got no mo' in the town I got love in Oakland y'all You know what I'm sayin' I been doin this shit fo' So I'm a it to you juss like it happened, bitch
I don't stop rappin', ever since the first day I the microphone, made a funky ass tape I had sixteen hoes, ten toes from the "O", an' any real pimp knows The only love hoes get is what they fo' my scratch, what the fuck I'm a stay fo'? 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 wit rap like K-P-O-O From the very first time I the mic Niggaz smokin' burner, ready to I don't violence, I'm from Oakland where the real kick it
You get killed nigga or make a mill ticket Move down South the town is wild Now the jocks wanna clown my style I raised too 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
That's why the town got rid 'o That's why the town got rid 'o
It all started back C and H Went to T, B, tryin' to 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 an' split it If I don't get my cut, you mutha fuckaz get it" It was G's, all mine, didn't give Teddy Gram one dime Now listen real close 'cuz it be hard to follow
told 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 Instead of studios, we seein' in buildings Then we stop speakin', shit got I give a fuck, muthafucka get my money I ain't been a hoe, you can't pimp me
I do all the work you pimp me I tried to buy him out but right about They let the lions out, niggaz start eatin' that up You never 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
why the town got rid 'o $hort (Don't believe you hear, nigga) why the town got rid 'o $hort
I went to the freak-nik, shit me out Came fo' Jack the Rapper Bought me a house, that was August '93, to dip I hade in the town an' I was hot as shit Everytime I got stopped, went to jail Treat me bad I was hangin' wit criminals I wanted to buy me a house in the Oakland Nice lil' somethin' fo' a a mill
That's was right around the Chris hooked Dru down The luniz came 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, 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 don't apply to me or past You can meet me at the an' get my autograph Or you can back, if you can do all that Me Fred Benz an' Craps Smokin' burner upstairs in hot house It's been fifteen years an' I played out They playin' Too $hort on a Chevy pedal Back in the days K M E L heavy metal
why the town got rid 'o $hort That's why the got rid 'o $hort
Niggaz shootin' at the studio late at Seen a Charokee, started at Spice At the E-40 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 mutha fucka at the street It was me, Boo, Howard, an' Jock, a clip One in the chamber an' it T.B. Still to be my pimp I could lose my life or give my to him I'd die before 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 don't Like the notorious say, "If you know, now you know"