The Ghetto - Too $hort

[00:05.62]Talking bout the ghetto funky funky ghetto
[00:15.31]Trying to survive, trying to stay alive
[00:20.88]The ghetto
[00:27.14]{Talking bout the ghetto}
[00:27.27]The ghetto
[00:30.64]The ghetto
[00:34.71]The ghetto
[00:36.77]{Funk funky ghetto}
[00:38.96]Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
[00:42.71]Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
[00:45.21]Old school buddies not doing it right
[00:47.21]Every day it's the same
[00:48.83]And it's the same every night
[00:49.84]I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool
[00:52.08]If he played me close and tried to test my cool
[00:54.52]Every day I wonder just how I'll die
[00:56.84]Only thing I know is how to survive
[00:59.15]There's only one rule in the real world
[01:01.58]And that's to take care of you, only you and yours
[01:04.09]Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
[01:06.4]Might deal me some dope but then crime don't pay
[01:08.96]Black man tried to break into my house again
[01:11.34]Thought he got off early doing time in the pen
[01:13.71]Even though my brothers do me just like that
[01:16.03]I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the
[01:18.39]The ghetto
[01:28.020004]The ghetto
[01:37.5]So just peep the game and don't call it crap
[01:40.020004]Cause to me, life is one hard rap
[01:42.33]Even though my sister smoked crack cocaine
[01:44.82]She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed
[01:47.2]600 million on a footbal team
[01:49.45]And her baby dies just like a dope fiend
[01:51.83]The story I tell is so incomplete
[01:54.270004]Five kids in the house and no food to eat
[01:56.630005]Don't look at me and don't ask me why
[01:59.08]Mama's next door getting high
[02:01.34]Even though she's got five mouths to feed
[02:03.89]She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T
[02:06.39]I always tell the truth about things like this
[02:08.7]I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
[02:11.09]Instead of adding to the task force send some help
[02:13.65]Waiting on him I'd better help myself
[02:15.95]Housing Authority and the O.P.D.
[02:18.4]All these guns just to handle me in the
[02:20.84]The ghetto
[02:25.70999]The ghetto
[02:43.3]Even though they put us down and call us animals
[02:46.99]We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
[02:49.49]Drive fancy cars, make love to stars
[02:51.93]Never really saying just who we are
[02:54.37]We use alias names like TOOSHORT
[02:57.05]Sell you stuff you might kill for
[02:59.24]Young kids grow up and that's all they know
[03:01.56]Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin dope
[03:04.05]Only thing he knows is how to survive
[03:06.43]But will he kill another brother before he dies?
[03:08.69]In the ghetto, you keep one eye open
[03:11.44]All day long, just hoping and hoping
[03:13.74]You can pay your bills and not drink too much
[03:15.93]Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up
[03:18.3]Like me, but you don't see
[03:20.75]Ten years from now, where will you be?
[03:23.24]The ghetto
[03:28.12]The ghetto
[03:42.93]So much game in a Too rap
[03:45.06]Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black
[03:47.18]Why you wanna act like someone else?
[03:49.56]All you gotta do is just be yourself
[03:52.0]We're all the same color underneath
[03:54.44]Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me
[03:56.94]Never be ashamed of what you are
[03:59.5]Proud to be black stand tall at heart
[04:01.81]Even though some people give you no respect
[04:03.94]Be intelligent, when you put em in check
[04:06.25]Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way
[04:08.75]And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say
[04:11.19]So if you don't listen it's not my fault
[04:13.63]I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost
[04:16.32]Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth
[04:18.44]While me and my peoples try to get out
[04:20.88]The ghetto
[04:25.44]The ghetto
[04:35.2]End