That's Why

[00:02.09] Yeah, we gettin' real on this album y'all
[00:04.81] You know I'm hearin' all these rumors out here 'bout
[00:06.79] They ran $hort Dogg up outta East Oakland
[00:08.88] Moved to Atlanta, ain't got no mo' love in the town
[00:12.96] I got much love in Oakland y'all
[00:15.15] You know what I'm sayin' I been doing this shit for' years
[00:18.40] So I'm a tell it to you just like it happened
[00:21.55] I don't stop rappin', ever since the very first day
[00:24.11] I grabbed the microphone, made a funky ass tape
[00:27.30] I had sixteen foes, keepin' ten toes
[00:30.25] Game from the "O", an' any real pimp knows
[00:32.63] The only love hoes get is what they paid for'
[00:35.12] Gimme my scratch, what the fuck I'm a stay for'?
[00:38.25] I gotta make moves stack some G's
[00:40.79] From the whole stroll to my fax machine
[00:43.64] I got money comin' in from everywhere
[00:46.28] From New York to L.A., all around the' Bay, it's true
[00:50.64] I'm the man G, I'm underground radio can't ban me
[00:54.45] All on the air sayin' they ain't playing me no mo'
[00:57.29] I go back wit rap like K-P-O-O
[01:00.20] From the very first time I grabbed the mic
[01:02.75] Gangster smokin' burner, ready to fight
[01:05.44] I don't promote violence, I'm from Oakland where the real kick it
[01:08.91] You might get killed nigga or make a mill ticket
[01:11.53] Move down South 'cuz the town is wild
[01:13.87] Now the radio jocks wanna clown my style
[01:16.65] I raised too many rappers, you support
[01:18.66] Ask 'em who they grew up on, Too $hort
[01:22.01] Forget trying to black ball shit, it won't last
[01:24.17] If you can't play my song y'all can kiss my ass
[01:27.90] That's why the town got rid 'o $hort
[01:33.29] That's why the town got rid 'o $hort
[01:38.56] It all started back when C and H
[01:41.19] Went to T, B, tryin' to playa hate
[01:43.78] I flipped a brand-new Lexus, 93
[01:46.33] Joda Balls called me up, said, "Ya lyin' to me"
[01:49.23] He said, "I heard you an' Ryan got the cash an' split it
[01:52.08] If I don't get my cut, somebody gonna get it"
[01:54.76] It was 13 G's, all mine, didn't give Teddy Gram one dime
[01:59.54] Now listen real close 'cuz it might be hard to follow
[02:03.27] Chris told Ted it was fifty thousand dollaz
[02:05.51] Sound kinda petty an' it is
[02:07.96] But that's how it goes when you in show biz
[02:11.19] Rapper's fallin' out, should be makin' millions
[02:13.76] Instead of studios, we seein' lawyers in buildings
[02:16.86] Then we stop speakin', it started getting funky
[02:19.63] I aint tryna hear $hort dog get my money
[02:22.75] I ain't never been a hoe, you can't pimp me
[02:25.60] I do all the work while you pimp me
[02:28.49] I tried to buy him out but right about then
[02:31.24] They let the lions out, niggaz start eatin' that shit up
[02:34.50] You shoulda never listened
[02:36.13] I'm always on this money makin' mission
[02:38.29] Sold a car an' a truck in Oakland for' that Lex
[02:41.41] Jock loaned me five an' y'all know whats nest
[02:44.27] That's why the town got rid 'o $hort
[02:46.85] (Don't believe everything you hear)
[02:49.97] That's why the town got rid 'o $hort
[02:54.22] I went to the freak-nik, straite turned me out
[02:57.16] Came back for' Jack the Rapper
[02:59.23] Bought me a house, that was August '93, time to dip
[03:02.72] I had warrants in the town, and I was hot as shit
[03:05.54] Everytime I got stopped, I went to jail
[03:08.31] Treat me bad 'cuz I was hangin' with criminals
[03:11.00] I wanted to buy me a house in the Oakland Hills
[03:14.21] Nice lil' somethin' for' a half a mill
[03:16.52] That's was right around the time Chris hooked Dru down
[03:19.44] The luniz came through an' them tricks got clowned
[03:21.79] Rappin' Ron tore 'em up on the freestyle flow
[03:25.38] The luniz ain't ran nobody outta shit
[03:27.48] Then they put it on the town, shit got real
[03:30.05] When you was in the fourth grade, I had a record deal
[03:32.80] You got one hit record now you ballin'
[03:35.73] You make one fake album, you'll be fallin'
[03:38.34] An' that fact don't apply to me present or past
[03:41.27] You can meet me at the mall an' get my autograph
[03:43.99] Or you can flash back, if you can do all that
[03:47.09] Me Fred Benz an' Freddy Craps
[03:49.10] Lina upstairs in hot lips house
[03:52.10] It's been fifteen years an' I ain't played out
[03:54.66] They playin' Too $hort steppin' on a Chevy pedal
[03:57.35] Back in the days we ain't never played heavy metal
[04:01.09] That's why the town got rid 'o $hort
[04:06.29] That's why the town got rid 'o $hort
[04:11.94] Niggaz shootin' at the studio late at night
[04:13.81] Seen a Cherokee, started shootin' at Spice
[04:15.56] At the E-40 picnic out in the park
[04:19.49] People gather 'round for' some shit to start
[04:22.57] They had bullets with my name, but we never got to me
[04:24.79] See me sucka M.C shootin' at the street
[04:27.85] It was me, Boo, Howard, an' Jock, a full clip
[04:31.30] One in the chamber an' it's blockin' T.B
[04:33.81] Still tryin' to be my pimp
[04:35.89] I could lose my life or give my money to him
[04:38.92] I'd rather die before you use me
[04:41.23] I tried to buy him out, the nigga sued me
[04:45.01] An' that's where it stands right now y'all
[04:48.23] For' those who don't know
[04:50.36] Like the notorious say, "If you don't know, now you know"
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