The Ghetto (Reprise)-Too $hort

[ti:The Ghetto] [ar:Too $hort] [al:Short Dog's In The House] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ghetto (Reprise) - Too $hort [00:05.76]Talking bout the ghetto funky funky ghetto [00:14.49] [00:15.68]Trying to survive trying to stay alive [00:21.45]The ghetto [00:23.07] [00:26.01]The ghetto [00:27.20] Talking bout the ghetto [00:29.45] [00:30.82]The ghetto [00:31.56] [00:35.56]The ghetto [00:36.49] [00:37.00] Funk funky ghetto [00:38.06] [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 [01:01.80]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 [01:09.02]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 [01:20.32] [01:23.31]The ghetto [01:23.50] [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 [01:54.48]Five kids in the house and no food to eat [01:57.16]Don't look at me and don't ask me why [01:59.40]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 [02:13.80]Waiting on him I'd better help myself [02:16.17]Housing Authority and the O P D [02:18.54]All these guns just to handle me in the [02:21.22]The ghetto [02:21.93]The ghetto [02:23.30] [02:44.50]Even though they put us down and call us animals [02:46.69] [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 [02:58.66] [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 [03:08.90]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 [03:17.21] [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 [03:24.56] [03:28.07]The ghetto [03:28.91] [03:42.70]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 [04:26.58] [04:40.00]End