The Ghetto (Reprise)
Too Short

Talking bout the ghetto...funky funky ghetto
Trying to survive, trying to stay alive

The ghetto
The ghetto
(Talking bout the ghetto)
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Funk funky ghetto)

Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
Old school buddies not doing it right
Every day it's the same
And it's the same every night
I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool
If he played me close and tried to test my cool
Every day I wonder just how I'll die
Only thing I know is how to survive
There's only one rule in the real world
And that's to take care of you, only you and yours
Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
Might deal me some dope but then crime don't pay
Black man tried to break into my house again
Thought he got off early doing time in the pen
Even though my brothers do me just like that
I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the...

The ghetto
The ghetto
(Talking bout the ghetto)
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Funk funky ghetto)

So just peep the game and don't call it crap
Cause to me, life is one hard rap
Even though my sister smoked crack cocaine
She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed
600 million on a footbal team
And her baby dies just like a dope fiend
The story I tell is so incomplete
Five kids in the house and no food to eat
Don't look at me and don't ask me why
Mama's next door getting high
Even though she's got five mouths to feed
She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T
I always tell the truth about things like this
I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
Instead of adding to the task force send some help
Waiting on him I'd better help myself
Housing Authority and the O.P.D.
All these guns just to handle me in the...

The ghetto
The ghetto
(Talking bout the ghetto)
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Funk funky ghetto)

Even though they put us down and call us animals
We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
Drive fancy cars, make love to stars
Never really saying just who we are
We use alias names like TOO $HORT
Sell you stuff you might kill for
Young kids grow up and that's all they know
Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin dope
Only thing he knows is how to survive
But will he kill another brother before he dies?
In the ghetto, you keep one eye open
All day long, just hoping and hoping
You can pay your bills and not drink too much
Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up
Like me, but you don't see
Ten years from now, where will you be?

The ghetto
The ghetto
(Talking bout the ghetto)
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Funk funky ghetto)

So much game in a Too $hort rap
Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black
Why you want to act like someone else?
All you gotta do is just be yourself
We're all the same color underneath
Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me
Never be ashamed of what you are
Proud to be black stand tall at heart
Even though some people give you no respect
Be intelligent, when you put em in check
Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way
And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say
So if you don't listen it's not my fault
I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost
Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth
While me and my peoples try to get out

The ghetto
The ghetto
(Talking bout the ghetto)
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Funk funky ghetto)


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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   Only The Strong Survive   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 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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