Only The Strong Survive
Too Short

On the microphone in 1993
Short Dawg made me
And he don't stop to the beat
Nothing but a menace to society

I always heard that you gotta be strong if you wanna survive
Get your diploma, go to college, get a nine to five
Every year, you're makin' 30 Gs a pop
Workin', see, and you're tied to the white man's jock
Movin' out of the ghetto 'cause it troubles you
Makin' payments on a BMW

I know you never would settle for the minimum snaps
And have to live in the ghetto where the blacks be at
And send your kids to a school that don't really teach
How could I care about a college degree?

You think I wanna get cha
Take you to the motel and straight get richer
You must be crazy, smokin' that chronic
I take you to the motel and then put my rubber on it
And hope it don't bust so I can stay alive
'Cause only the strong survive

Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive

So tell me what it is, man, tell me what you want
Not talkin' 'bout the music but we likes to funk
Ain't no such thang as a Oakland punk
It don't matter who you are, you'll be in the trunk

You come twenty-five deep or maybe ten
If I let your push me, then you push me again
He was six foot four, they used to call him 'Sir'
But he was smooth, gunned down by a teenage gangsta

No bigger than me, never could be his self
Always tryin' to act like someone else
There just ain't no future for us young black men
'Cause we always get killed or sent to the pen

But even Malcolm X was a ex-convict
And you can bet I won't go fo' it next time
I'm kinda strong with my bullets in the clip
That's why I never trip 'cause only the strong survive

Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive

Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive

You say, Be a man, let's go toe to toe
But that was like fifteen years ago
They say, Only the strong will survive
But brothers be strong and still they die

But you gotta get around that bush
All the things we used to do, we can't push
No more 'cause ain't nobody trippin' on us
You wanna fight, mess around and get shot up
See you layin' there, bleedin', losin' the fight
All behind a broad and that just ain't right

You could live or die, it just doesn't make a difference
'Cause everybody knows about your sorry ass, simpin' for a hoe
I thought you knew life is but the punk's so fake, he can't handle his
So you weak fizz news ain't no surprise 'cause only the strong survive

Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive


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  16 Hoes   2 Bitches   4 tha Hustlas   A Week Ago   Ain't No Bitches   Ain't Nothin' but a Word to Me   Ain't Nothin' But A Word To Me (With Ice Cube)   Ain't Nothing Like Pimpin'   Ain't Nuthin Like Pimpin   All For Love   All My Bitches Are Gone   All the Time   Analyze The Game   Anything is Possible   Baby D   Bad Ways   Baller   Be My Dirty Love   Bitch   Blow Job Betty   Blow The Whistle   Blow the Whistle [Clean]   Blowjob Betty   Bonus Track   Boss   Broke Bitch   Burn Rubber   Burn Rubber Pt. 2   Buy You Some   Cali-O   California Girls   Call Her A Bitch   Call It Gangster   Call Me Daddy   Can I Get A -----   Can I Get a Bitch   Can I Hit It   Can't Get Enough   Can't Stay Away   Can't Stay Away (Can't Stay Away )   Can't Stay Away (Outro)   Can't Stop   Can’t Stay Away (Outro)   Candy Paint   Candy Paint (Featuring MC Breed)   Chase the Cat   Chase The Cat (Featuring Dolla Will)   Checking My Hoes   Choosin'   City of Dope   Cocktails   Cocktales   Coming Up $hort   Coming up Short   Crush Cologne   Cuss Words   CussWords   Dangerous Crew   Dead or Alive   Domestic Violence   Domestic Violence (Featuring E-40)   Don't Act Like That   Don't Ever Give Up   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   Everytime   Extra Dangerous Thanks   F.U.C.K. Y.O.U.   F.U.C.K.Y.O.U.   Fed Up   Female Funk   Female Players   Fire   First Date   Freaky Tales   Fuck My Car   Funk Session   G-2000   Game   Gangstas & Strippers   Gangstas and Strippers   Gangsters And Strippers   Get In Where You Fit In   Get It   Get off the Stage   Get That Cheese   Gettin' It   Gettin' It (Music Track With Sample)   Girl   Girl (Cocaine) That's Your Life   Girls   Givin up the Funk   Giving Up the Funk   Good Life   Gotta Get Some Lovin'   Hard on the Boulevard   Here We Go   Here We Go (J.D. Remix)   Hey   Hey, Let's Go   Hobo Hoeing   Hoes   Hog Ridin'   Hoochie   How Does It Feel   I Ain't Nothin But a Dog   I Ain't Nothin' But A Dog   I Ain't Trippin   I Ain't Trippin'   I Like It   I Luv   I Luv (Featuring Trick Daddy, Scarface and Daz)   I Must Confess   I Need A Freak   I Wanna Do It   I Want That   I Want To Be Free   I Want to Be Free (That's the Truth)   I Want Your Girl   I Wish I Was A Baller   I'm A Pimp   I'm a Playa   I'm a Player   I'm a Stop   I'm Gone   I'm Pimpin'   I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)   In the Oaktown   In The Studio   In the Trunk   International Player   Intro: Shorty The Pimp   Invasion of the Flat Booty Bitches   It Ain't Over   It Don't Stop   It's About That Money (Bonus Track)   It's All Good   It's Time To Go   It's Your Life   It’s About That Money   Just Anotha Day   Just Another Day   Just Like Dope   Keep Bouncin' (Street)   Keep Fuckin' Me   Late Night Creep   Leave It Alone   Life is Too $hort   Life Is...Too Short   Life's Too Short   Lil' Shorty   Little Girls   Lollypops   Longevity   Looking for a Baller   Looking For a Dollar   Mack Attack   Mack Attack [*]   Maggot Brain   Married To The Game   Money in the Ghetto   Money Maker   Money on the Floor   More Freaky Tales   Movin in Your Chucks   Nasty Rhymes   Nation Riders   Nation Riders Anthem   Never Talk Down   No Love from Oakland   Nobody Does It Better   Nothing Feels Better   Oakland   Oakland Style   Old School   On My Level   Partytime   Paula & Janet   Paula & Janet   Paystyle   Paystyle (Bosko and Banks Mix)   Pimp Life   Pimp Me   Pimp Shit   Pimp the Ho   Pimpandho.Com   Pimpin Ken (Interlude)   Pimpin' Forever   Pimpin' Inc.   Pimpology   Playa   Playa fo Life   Playboy &hort   Playboy $hort   Playboy Short   Playboy Short II   Player Card   Player for Life   Players   Porno Bitch   Pull Them Panties Down   Punk Bitch   Quit Hatin' Pt. 1   Quit Hatin' Pt. 2   Rap Like Me   Real Niggaz   Recognize Game   Respect The Pimpin'   Rhymes   Sadity   Sample the Funk   Set Up   shake dat monkey   Shake It Baby   Shake That Monkey   She Know   She Loves Her   Shittin' On 'Em   Short but Funky   Short Dog's in the House   Short Short   Shut Up Nancy   So Watcha Sayin'?   So You Want to Be a Gangster   Somethin to Ride To   Something to Ride To   Sophisticated   Step Daddy   Still Blowin'   Strip Down   Survivin' the Game   Take My Bitch   Talkin' Shit   Tell The Feds   Thangs Change   That's How It Goes Down   That's Right   That's Why   Thats Right   The Dangerous Crew   The Ghetto   The Ghetto (Reprise)   The Magazine   The Old Fashioned Way   The Universal Mix   These Are the Tales   This How We Eat   This Is How We Eat   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   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

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