Too $hort - That's Why

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[00:00.00]That's Why - Too $hort
[00:02.34]Yeah we gettin real on this album y'all You know I'm hearin all these
[00:06.65]Rumors out here bout they ran $hort Dogg up outta East Oakland Ni**a
[00:09.90]Moved to Atlanta ain't got no mo love in the town I got much love in
[00:14.40]Oakland y'all you know what I'm sayin I been doin this sh*t fo years
[00:18.96]So I'm a tell it to you juss like it happened B**CH
[00:22.08]I don't stop rappin
[00:22.83]Ever since the very first day
[00:24.96]I grabbed the microphone made a funky a** tape
[00:27.64]I had sixteen hoes
[00:29.21]Suckin ten toes
[00:30.52]Game from the "O"
[00:31.59]An any real pimp knows
[00:33.21]The only love hoes get is what they paid fo
[00:35.34]Gimme my scratch
[00:36.46]What the f**k I'm a stay fo
[00:38.65]I gotta make moves b**ch
[00:40.27]Stack some G's
[00:41.21]From the whole stroll
[00:42.21]To my fax machine
[00:43.83]I got money comin in from everywhere
[00:46.59]From New York
[00:47.40]To L A
[00:48.03]To the mutha f**kin Bay
[00:49.72]It's true
[00:50.84]I'm the man G
[00:51.96]I'm underground 106 can't ban me
[00:54.52]All on the air sayin they don't f**k wit me no mo
[00:57.59]I go back wit rap like K-P-O-O
[01:00.34]From the very first time I grabbed the mic
[01:03.15]Niggaz smokin burner
[01:04.65]Ready to fight
[01:05.72]I don't promote violence
[01:07.21]I'm from Oakland where the real kick it
[01:09.15]You might get killed ni**a
[01:10.52]Or make a mill ticket
[01:12.21]Move down south cuz the town is wild
[01:14.09]Now the radio jocks wanna clown my style
[01:16.59]I raised too many rappers you support
[01:18.52]Ask 'em who they grew up on TOO $HORT
[01:21.71]F**k all that black ball sh*t it won't last
[01:24.28]KMEL y'all can kiss my a**
[01:28.21]That's why the town got rid 'o $hort
[01:33.65]
[01:38.78]It all started back when C & H
[01:41.34]Went to T & B tryin to playa hate
[01:43.90]I flipped a brand new Lexus
[01:45.39]93
[01:46.84]Joda Balls called me up said ya lyin to me
[01:49.40]He said I heard you an Ran got the cash an split it
[01:52.21]If I don't get my cut
[01:53.52]You mutha f**kaz gonna get it
[01:54.96]It was thirteen G's all mine
[01:57.15]Didn't give Teddy Gram one dime
[01:59.84]Now listen real close cuz it might be
[02:02.03]Hard to follow
[02:03.21]Chris told Ted it was fifty thousand dollaz
[02:06.09]Sh*t sound petty
[02:07.21]An it is
[02:07.96]But that's how it goes when you in show biz
[02:11.27]Niggaz fallin out
[02:12.21]Should be makin millions
[02:13.96]Instead of studios
[02:14.78]We seein lawyers in buildings
[02:16.96]Then we stop speakin
[02:18.27]Sh*t got funky
[02:19.71]I don't give a f**k
[02:21.09]Mutha f**ka get my money
[02:23.03]I ain't never been a hoe you can't pimp me
[02:25.34]I do all the work while you pimp me
[02:28.53]I tried to buy him out
[02:29.96]But right about then
[02:31.27]They let the lions out
[02:32.65]Niggaz start eatin that sh*t up
[02:34.21]You shoulda never listened
[02:36.34]I'm always on this money makin mission
[02:38.70]Sold a car an a truck in Oakland fo that Lex
[02:41.52]Jock loaned me five an I was rollin that b**ch
[02:44.70]That's why the town got rid 'o $hort
[02:46.87]Don't believe everythang you hear ni**a
[02:54.69]I went to the freak-nik
[02:56.30]Sh*t turned me out
[02:57.81]Came back fo jack the rapper
[02:59.38]Bought me a house
[03:00.50]That was August '93 time to dip
[03:03.12]I hade warrants in the town an I was hot as sh*t
[03:05.94]Everytime I got stopped
[03:07.43]Ni**a went to jail
[03:08.56]Treat me bad cuz I was hangin wit criminals
[03:10.93]I wanted to buy me a house in the Oakland hills
[03:14.37]Nice lil sumpthin fo a half a mill
[03:16.87]That's was right around the time Chris hooked Dru Down
[03:19.62]The Luniz came through an them tricks got clowned
[03:22.37]Rappin Ron tore 'em up on the freestyle tip
[03:24.62]An niggaz ain't ran nobody outta sh*t
[03:28.12]Then they put it on the town
[03:29.37]Sh*t got real
[03:30.50]When you was in the fourth grade I had a record deal
[03:33.19]You got one hit record now you ballin
[03:35.85]You make one fake album you'll be fallin
[03:38.65]An that sh*t don't apply to me
[03:40.29]Present or past
[03:41.53]You can meet me at the mall an get my autograph
[03:44.03]Or you can flash back
[03:45.17]If you can do all that
[03:47.05]Me Fred Benz
[03:48.42]An Freddy Craps
[03:49.67]Smokin burner upstairs in hot lips house
[03:52.30]It's been fifteen years an I ain't played out
[03:54.98]They playin Too $hort steppin on a Chevy pedal
[03:57.36]Back in the days KMEL played heavy metal
[04:01.17]That's why the town got rid 'o $hort
[04:06.61]That's why the town got rid 'o $hort
[04:11.48]Niggaz shootin at the studio late at night
[04:14.30]Seen a Charokee
[04:15.55]Started shootin at Spice
[04:16.92]At the E-40 picnic out in the park
[04:19.86]Niggaz gather round fo some sh*t to start
[04:22.36]They had bullets wit my name
[04:23.79]But we never got to me
[04:25.11]See me sucka mutha f**ka
[04:26.55]Shootin at the street
[04:27.86]It was me
[04:28.80]Boo Howard an Jock
[04:30.55]A full clip
[04:31.42]One in the chamber an it blockin T B
[04:34.17]Still tryin to be my pimp
[04:36.05]I could lose my life
[04:37.30]Or give my money to him
[04:39.36]I'd rather die before you use me
[04:41.73]I tried to buy him out
[04:43.18]The ni**a sued me
[04:45.43]An that's where it stands right now y'all Fo the mutha f**kaz that
[04:51.05]Don't know like the Notorious say "If you don't know now you know "