The Ghetto(Reprise) - Too $hort

[00:00.0]The Ghetto (Reprise) - Too $hort
[00:05.76]Talking bout the ghetto funky funky ghetto
[00:15.68]Trying to survive trying to stay alive
[00:21.45]The ghetto
[00:26.01]The ghetto
[00:27.2] Talking bout the ghetto
[00:30.82]The ghetto
[00:35.56]The ghetto
[00:37.0] Funk funky ghetto
[00:39.86]Even though the streets are bumpy lights burned out
[00:42.74]D**e fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
[00:45.36]Old school buddies not doing it right
[00:47.61]Every day it's the same
[00:48.79]And it's the same every night
[00:49.85]I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool
[00:52.16]If he played me close and tried to test my cool
[00:54.72]Every day I wonder just how I'll die
[00:57.03]Only thing I know is how to survive
[00:59.41]There's only one rule in the real world
[01:01.8]And that's to take care of you only you and yours
[01:04.35]Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
[01:06.65]Might deal me some d**e but then crime don't pay
[01:09.020004]Black man tried to break into my house again
[01:11.46]Thought he got off early doing time in the pen
[01:13.82]Even though my brothers do me just like that
[01:16.32]I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the
[01:19.26]The ghetto
[01:23.31]The ghetto
[01:37.79]So just peep the game and don't call it crap
[01:40.22]Cause to me life is one hard rap
[01:42.72]Even though my sister smoked crack coc*ine
[01:44.97]She was nine months pregnant ain't nothing changed
[01:47.41]600 million on a footbal team
[01:49.85]And her baby dies just like a d**e fiend
[01:52.22]The story I tell is so incomplete
[01:54.479996]Five kids in the house and no food to eat
[01:57.16]Don't look at me and don't ask me why
[01:59.4]Mama's next door getting high
[02:01.82]Even though she's got five mouths to feed
[02:04.13]She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T
[02:06.81]I always tell the truth about things like this
[02:09.12]I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
[02:11.49]Instead of adding to the task force send some help
[02:13.8]Waiting on him I'd better help myself
[02:16.17]Housing Authority and the O P D
[02:18.54001]All these guns just to handle me in the
[02:21.22]The ghetto
[02:21.93]The ghetto
[02:44.5]Even though they put us down and call us animals
[02:47.31]We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
[02:49.68]Drive fancy cars make love to stars
[02:52.18]Never really saying just who we are
[02:54.49]We use alias names like TOOSHORT
[02:56.92]Sell you stuff you might kill for
[02:59.36]Young kids grow up and that's all they know
[03:01.79]Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin d**e
[03:04.16]Only thing he knows is how to survive
[03:06.53]But will he kill another brother before he dies
[03:08.9]In the ghetto you keep one eye open
[03:11.46]All day long just hoping and hoping
[03:13.77]You can pay your bills and not drink too much
[03:16.26]Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up
[03:18.58]Like me but you don't see
[03:21.01]Ten years from now where will you be
[03:23.38]The ghetto
[03:28.07]The ghetto
[03:42.7]So much game in a Too rap
[03:45.07]Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black
[03:47.63]Why you wanna act like someone else
[03:49.75]All you gotta do is just be yourself
[03:52.19]We're all the same color underneath
[03:54.75]Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me
[03:57.05]Never be ashamed of what you are
[03:59.49]Proud to be black stand tall at heart
[04:01.62]Even though some people give you no respect
[04:04.09]Be intelligent when you put em in check
[04:06.65]Cause when you're ignorant you get treated that way
[04:08.81]And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say
[04:11.18]So if you don't listen it's not my fault
[04:13.62]I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost
[04:16.11]Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth
[04:18.42]While me and my peoples try to get out
[04:20.88]The ghetto
[04:25.84]The ghetto
[04:40.0]End