Dead Or Alive
Too $hort

I heard there was a rumor Too $hort was dead
Walked in the house and got shot in the head
I know you don't believe it, if you do you're wrong
How can I die and rock it all night long?
I'm Too $hort baby, spit that rap
I put Oakland, California on the map
It's so hard, got you telling lies
Can't hold me back so you say I died
It's incredible, I came back to life
I never let 'em bury me without my mic
I keep breathing, don't stop that breath
Now everybody's talking about Too $hort's death
Am I a zombie, or something close?
I'm not Casper, I mack all the ghosts
Oaktown style is the only way
I catch a new freak every day
It's not the Yellow Brick Road, it's called the Foothill Strip
Stand on your toes, make your heels go click
Three times, it's no place like home
So why you wanna bury me all alone
I bring a new meaning to underground rap
Dead or Alive, I'm still Born to Mack
Always on the pop charts, straight rapping
I'm not dead, I'm just macking

So as the word turns, I'm a living soul
I even heard a rumor that I overdosed
I'm not a reincarnation of something old
Like King Tut I was buried in gold
Why you wanna cry when I'm still living?
Word got out and the rumors started spreading
My momma, called one night
Said Todd, are you all right?
The whole family's got the Too $hort blues
I heard it last night on the evening news
And that's bad, it's not even true
I told my momma like this Let's sue
So many times, I heard I died
I guess I'm like a cat and I got nine lives
Well I'm the P-L-A, Y-E-R
I lay bunnies, like Hugh Heffner
I'm her flavor, kinda saucy
I lay back and let the young freak toss me
Even if she don't like serving a pimp
I'm still living, so let's do it again
I keep rapping, hard as hell
Cause your rumors make my records sell
If you continue, I'll soon be rich
Riding around town going Biiiitch!

People always say Too $hort can't rap
Now I drive a Benz and my bank is fat
It's like crap, put a c on a rhyme
Ain't nothing left homie but a scandalous crime
I'm the best damn rapper you could ever hate
Say I died on the freeway in the earthquake
Say I'm washed up, say I'm through
But the fact still stands I'm better than you
You got rhymes? Well I got more
I take you on a trip to my rappin' store
You find rhymes and raps, poems and caps
Way more raps than any rapper could rap
Cause if you rap like me, he wouldn't have to be
Weak on the mic like my boy MC
It don't stop, to the funky beat
I know you like dancing with a real big freak
I can't dance, but I sure can rhyme
I sold a million, in '89
And if you didn't know baby, it's the 90's now
Old Short Dog got a new breakdown
I went to Miko's, fresh candy paint
Now I'm doing things that the suckers can't
If I was dead, they'd call it Dead Man's Rap
But on the real, Short Dog is back

Funk funky, off the Parliament
I'm still living, so let's do it again
It's incredible, even if I die
I never let 'em bury me without my mic
I bring a new meaning, to underground rap
Dead or alive, I'm still Born to Mack
I say What's up to my homies in Santa Rita
Right about now I know you need a
Too $hort rhyme to get you through the day
Oaktown style is the only way
I came up, and now I've sworn
To rock this mic til I can't no more
And that's game, straight pop the most
MC rapper from the West Coast
Too $hort, dead or alive
I still chill on the Eastside
Cause I remember how it all began
House parties in East Oakland
Now it's on the pop charts, still rapping
I'm not dead, I'm just macking


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Lyrics by Too $hort

  'Life Is... Too Short' (LP Version)   16 Hoes   19,999   2 Bitches   Ain't No Bitches   Ain't Nothin' But A Word To Me   Ain't Nothing Like Pimpin'   Ain't Nuthin Like Pimpin   All My Bitches Are Gone   All The Time   Analyze The Game   Anything Is Possible   B***H   Baby D   Bad Ways   Badwayz: Don't Trust Her   Baller   Be My Dirty Love   Bitch I'm A Pimp   Bitch Sucks Dick   Blow Job Betty   Blow the Whistle   Blow the Whistle [Clean]   Blow the Whistle [Instrumental]   Blowjob Betty   Bonus Track   Bossy   Bossy   Bossy   Bossy   Bossy [Radio Edit]   Broke Bitch   Burn Rubber   Burn Rubber Pt. 2   Burn Rubber Pt.2   Buy You Some   Cali-O   Cali-O - B-Legit   Califorina Girls   California Girls   Call Her A Bitch   Call It Gangster   Call Me   Call Me Daddy   Can I Get A -----   Can I Get A Bitch   Can I Hit It   Can't Stay Away   Can't Stay Away (Outro)   Can't Stop   Candy Paint   Candy Paint - MC Breed   Candy Paint (feat. MC Breed)   Chase The Cat   Choosin'   City Of Dope   Cocktails   Cocktales   Cocktales   Coke Dealers   Comin' Up $hort   Coming Up $hort   Coming up Short   Couldn't Be A Better Player   Cuss Words   Cusswords   Domestic Violence   Domestic Violence (feat. E-40)   Don't Act Like That   Don't Even Stop   Don't Ever Give Up   Don't Ever Stop   Don't Fight The Feelin'   Don't Fight The Feeling   Don't Fight The Intro   Don't Fuck For Free   Don't Hate The Player   Don't Stop Rappin'   Don't Trust Her   Dope Fiend Beat   Double Header   Dum Ditty Dum   Every Time   Everytime   F.U.C.K.Y.O.U.   Female Funk   Female Players   Fire   Fire (feat. Eric Sermon)   Freaky Tales   Freaky Tales [Beat]   From Here To New York   Fuck My Car   Funk Session   Game   Gangstas & Strippers   Get In Where You Fit In   Get It   Get Low   Get Off The Stage   Get That Cheese   Gettin' It   Girl   Girl (Cocaine) That's Your Life   Givin up The Funk   Giving Up The Funk   Good Life   Gotta Get Some Lovin'   Hard On A Bitch   Hard On The Boulevard   Here We Go   Here We Go (J.D. Remix)   Here We Go (Lil' Jon Remix)   Here We Go [Jermaine Dupri Remix]   Hey, Let's Go   Hey, Let's Go - Devin the Dude   Hobo Hoeing   Hoes   Hoochie   Hotel   Hotel   How Does It Feel   I Ain't Nothin but a Dog   I Ain't Nothin' But A Dog   I Ain't Trippin   I Don't Stop Rappin   I Know You Love Her   I Know You Love Her (feat. Slink Capone)   I Like It   I Love   I Love Tequila   I Luv   I Luv (Featuring Trick Daddy, Scarface And Daz)   I Must Confess   I Need A Freak   I Wanna Pimp You Hoe   I Want to Be Free   I Want To Be Free (That's The Truth)   I Want Your Girl   I'm A Playa   I'm A Player   I'm A Stop   I'm Pimpin'   I'm Wit It   Im Trippin   In The Oaktown   In The Studio   In The Trunk   Independence Day [Instrumental]   Intro: Shorty The Pimp   Invasion Of The Flat Booty Bitches   Invasion Of The Flat Booty Bitches (erick Sermon R...   It Ain't Over   It Don't Stop   It's a Cold Day   It's A Cold Day (The Funk Wit U Mix)   It's About That Money   It's About That Money (Bonus Track)   It's All Good   It's Alright   It's Time To Go   It's Your Life   Just Anotha Day   Just Another Day   Just Like Dope   Keep Bouncin' (Street)   Keep Fuckin' Me   Kobe Bryant   Late Night Creep   Late Nite Creep   Lead the Way   Leave It Alone   Life Is 2009   Life Is Too $hort   Life Is...Too Short   Life Is..Too Short   Life's Too Short   Little Girls   Lollypops   Longevity   Looking For a Baller   Looking For A Dollar   Mack Attack   Mack Attack [*]   Married To The Game   Money In The Ghetto   Money Maker   Money on the Floor   More Freaky Tales   Movin in Your Chucks   My Dick, My Sack   Nasty Rhymes   Nation Riders   Nation Riders Anthem   Never Talk Down   No Love From Oakland   Nobody Does It Better   Nothing Feels Better   Oakland   Oakland Style   Oakland, California   Old Fashioned Way   Old School   Only The Strong Survive   Partytime   Paula & Janet   Paula Janet   Paystyle   Pimp Life   Pimp Me   Pimp On   Pimp Sh*t   Pimp Shit   Pimp The Ho   Pimpandho.Com   Pimpin' Forever   Pimpology   Playa   Playboy $hort   Playboy Short   Playboy Short II   Player For Life   Players   Players Holiday   Porno Bitch   Pull Them Panties Down   Punk Bitch   Quit Hatin' Pt. 1   Rap Like Me   Real Niggaz   Recognize Game   Rhymes   Ride Wit Us   Sadity   Sample The Funk   Set Up   Shake It Baby   Shake That Monkey   She Know   She Loves Her   Shittin' On 'Em   Short But Funky   Short Dog's In The House   Short Rap   Short Short   Slink Capone: Nation Riders   So Watcha Sayin'   So You Want to Be a Gangster   Somethin to Ride To   Something To Ride To   Sophisticated   Step Daddy   Still Strugglin'   Strip Down   Survivin' The Game   T.W.D.Y. - Player's Holiday   Take My Bitch   Take Your   Take Your [DVD]   Take Your [DVD]   Tell The Feds   Thangs Change   That's How It Goes Down   That's Why   Thats Right   The Bitch Sucks Dick   The Dangerous Crew   The Ghetto   The Invasion of the Flat Booty Bitches   The Old Fashioned Way   These Are the Tales   This How We Eat   This Is How We Eat (feat. The Eastsiders, Big Tigg...   This My One   Top Down   Triple X   U Stank   Way Too Real   We Do This   What Happened To The Groupies   What She Gonna Do   What She Gonna Do?   What The Fuck   What's A Pimp?   Where They At?   Wild Wild West   Wild, Wild West   Yo Neck Yo Back   Yo Neck, Yo Back, My Dick, And My Sack   You Can't Fuck With Us   You Know What I Mean   You Might Get G'eed   You Nasty   Your Sister

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