Yeah, we gettin' real on this album You know I'm hearin' all these rumors out here ran $hort Dogg up outta East Oakland Nigga moved to Atlanta, got no mo' love in the town I got much in Oakland y'all You know what I'm sayin' I been doin this shit fo' So I'm a tell it to you like it happened, bitch
I stop rappin', ever since the very first day I grabbed the microphone, a funky ass tape I had hoes, suckin' ten toes Game from the "O", an' any real knows The only love hoes get is what they fo' Gimme my scratch, what the I'm a stay fo'? I gotta make moves bitch, stack G's From the stroll to my fax machine
I got money in from everywhere From New York to L.A., to the mutha fuckin' Bay, true I'm the man G, I'm underground 106 ban me All on the air sayin' don't fuck wit me no mo' I go back wit rap like From the very time I grabbed the mic Niggaz smokin' burner, ready to I don't promote violence, I'm from Oakland where the real it
You might get killed nigga or make a ticket Move down South 'cuz the is wild Now the radio jocks wanna clown my I raised too many rappers you Ask 'em who they up on, Too $hort Fuck all that ball shit, it won't last K M E L, can kiss my ass
That's why the town got rid 'o why the town got rid 'o $hort
It all back when C and H Went to T, B, tryin' to playa I a brand new Lexus, 93 Joda Balls called me up, said, "Ya to me" He said, "I heard you an' Ryan got the cash an' it If I get my cut, you mutha fuckaz gonna get it" It was thirteen G's, all mine, give Teddy Gram one dime Now listen real 'cuz it might be hard to follow
Chris told Ted it was fifty thousand Shit sound an' it is But that's how it goes when you in biz fallin' out, should be makin' millions Instead of studios, we lawyers in buildings we stop speakin', shit got funky I give a fuck, muthafucka get my money I ain't never a hoe, you can't pimp me
I do all the work you pimp me I tried to buy him out but right about They let the out, niggaz start eatin' that shit up You shoulda never I'm always on this money mission Sold a car an' a truck in Oakland fo' Lex Jock me five an' I was rollin' that bitch
why the town got rid 'o $hort (Don't everythang you hear, nigga) That's why the town got rid 'o
I to the freak-nik, shit turned me out back fo' Jack the Rapper Bought me a house, that was August '93, to dip I hade warrants in the town an' I was hot as Everytime I got stopped, nigga to jail Treat me bad 'cuz I was wit criminals I to buy me a house in the Oakland Hills Nice lil' somethin' fo' a a mill
That's was right around the time Chris hooked Dru The luniz came an' them tricks got clowned Rappin' Ron 'em up on the freestyle tip An' niggaz ain't ran outta shit they put it on the town, shit got real When you was in the grade I had a record deal You got one hit record now you You one fake album, you'll be fallin'
An' that shit apply to me present or past You can meet me at the an' get my autograph Or you can back, if you can do all that Me Fred Benz an' Craps Smokin' burner upstairs in hot lips It's been fifteen an' I ain't played out They playin' Too $hort on a Chevy pedal Back in the days K M E L played metal
That's why the town got rid 'o That's why the town got rid 'o
Niggaz shootin' at the studio late at Seen a Charokee, shootin' at Spice At the E-40 picnic out in the gather 'round fo' some shit to start They had bullets wit my but we never got to me See me sucka mutha fucka at the street It was me, Boo, Howard, an' Jock, a full One in the an' it blockin' T.B. Still to be my pimp I could lose my life or give my to him I'd rather die you use me I to buy him out, the nigga sued me
An' that's where it stands now y'all Fo' the mutha fuckaz that don't Like the say, "If you don't know, now you know"