[ti:The Ghetto]
[ar:Too $hort]
[al:Short Dog's In The House]
[by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:05.160] Talking bout the ghetto, funky funky ghetto
[00:15.170] Trying to survive, trying to stay alive
[00:20.690] The ghetto
[00:25.390] The ghetto
[00:26.890] (Talking bout the ghetto)
[00:30.140] The ghetto
[00:34.990] The ghetto
[00:36.240] (Funk funky ghetto)
[00:39.050] Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
[00:42.300] **** fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
[00:44.700] Old school buddies not doing it right
[00:47.100] Every day it's the same
[00:48.200] And it's the same every night
[00:49.460] I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool
[00:52.060] If he played me close and tried to test my cool
[00:54.610] Every day I wondered just how I'll die
[00:56.610] Only thing I know is how to survive
[00:58.980] There's only one rule in the real world
[01:01.378] And that's to take care of you, only you and yours
[01:03.979] Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
[01:06.379] Might deal me some **** but then crime don't pay
[01:08.578] Black man tried to break into my house again
[01:10.980] Thought he got off the **** doing time in the pen
[01:13.528] Even though my brothers do me just like that
[01:15.730] I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the
[01:18.888] The ghetto
[01:20.090] (Talking bout the ghetto)
[01:22.840] The ghetto
[01:24.388] (Funk funky ghetto)
[01:27.688] The ghetto
[01:29.200] (Trying to live our lives)
[01:32.400] The ghetto
[01:34.799] Wont ya tell ya buddy Too $hort
[01:37.000] So just peep the game and don't call it crap
[01:39.599] Cause to me, life is one hard rap
[01:41.810] Even though my sister smoked crack *******
[01:43.810] She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed
[01:46.959] 600 million on a football team
[01:49.159] And her baby dies just like a **** fiend
[01:51.909] The story I tell is so incomplete
[01:54.110] Five kids in the house and no food to eat
[01:56.659] Don't look at me and don't ask me why
[01:59.170] Mama's next door getting high
[02:01.168] Even though she's got five mouths to feed
[02:03.769] She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T
[02:06.069] I always tell the truth about things like this
[02:08.479] I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
[02:10.829] Instead of adding to the task force send some help
[02:13.489] Waiting on him I'd better help myself
[02:15.739] Housing Authority and the O.P.D.
[02:17.949] All these guns just to handle me in the
[02:20.500] The ghetto
[02:22.399] People all dying
[02:25.319] The ghetto
[02:26.970] Children are crying
[02:30.019] The ghetto
[02:31.979] Don't have enough to eat
[02:34.979] The ghetto
[02:36.379] Don't even have shoes on their feet
[02:39.889] The ghetto
[02:44.039] Even though they put us down and call us animals
[02:46.739] We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
[02:48.889] Drive fancy cars, make love to stars
[02:51.589] Never really saying just who we are
[02:53.940] We use alias names like Too $hort
[02:56.569] Sell your stuff you might kill for
[02:58.819] Young kids grow up and that's all they know
[03:01.118] Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin' ****
[03:03.519] Only thing he knows is how to survive
[03:05.869] But will he kill another brother before he dies?
[03:08.419] In the ghetto, you keep one eye open
[03:11.119] All day long, just hoping and hoping
[03:13.419] You can pay your bills and not drink too much
[03:15.969] Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up
[03:18.119] Like me, but you don't see
[03:20.530] Ten years from now, where will you be?
[03:22.979] The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[03:26.179] Tryin' to get out of the ghetto
[03:27.839] The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[03:29.750] But I got no place to go
[03:32.549] The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[03:34.799] (Trying to survive in the heart of the ghetto)
[03:37.299] The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[03:39.049] Cause that's the only place that I know
[03:42.449] So much game in a Too $hort rap
[03:44.699] Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black
[03:47.199] Why you want to act like someone else?
[03:49.360] All you gotta do is just be yourself
[03:51.360] We're all the same color underneath
[03:53.959] Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me
[03:56.669] Never be ashamed of what you are
[03:59.019] Proud to be black stand tall at heart
[04:01.319] Even though some people give you no respect
[04:03.729] Be intelligent, when you put em in check
[04:06.079] Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way
[04:08.479] And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say
[04:11.588] So if you don't listen it's not my fault
[04:13.588] I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost
[04:15.930] Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth
[04:17.538] While me and my peoples try to get out
[04:20.639] The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[04:23.339] Talking bout the ghetto
[04:24.699] The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[04:28.000] Funky funky ghetto
[04:29.899] The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[04:32.800] (Trying to survive)
[04:34.610] The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[04:37.560] (Trying to stay alive)
[04:39.468] The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[04:42.819] Funky funky ghetto
[04:44.120] The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[04:47.129] Got no place else to go
[04:50.639] The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)