[ti:The Ghetto] [ar:Too $hort] [al:Hip Hop - 100 Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ghetto (Clean) - Too $hort [00:05.85]Talking 'bout the ghetto funky funky ghetto [00:12.96] [00:15.71]Trying to survive trying to stay alive [00:21.34]The ghetto [00:22.16] [00:25.98]The ghetto [00:26.55] [00:27.36]Talking 'bout the ghetto [00:29.32] [00:30.67]The ghetto [00:31.36] [00:35.50]The ghetto [00:36.20] [00:37.09]Funk funky ghetto [00:39.69]Even though the streets are bumpy lights burned out [00:43.01]D**e fiends die with a pipe in their mouths [00:45.36]Old school buddies not doing it right [00:47.52]Every day it's the same [00:48.56]And it's the same every night [00:49.92]I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool [00:52.39]If he played me close and tried to test my cool [00:54.73]Every day I wonder just how I'll die [00:57.05]Only thing I know is how to survive [00:59.11] [00:59.64]There's only one rule in the real world [01:01.79]And that's to take care of you only you and yours [01:04.32]Keep dealing with the hard times day after day [01:06.67]Might deal me some d**e but then crime don't pay [01:09.06]Black man tried to break into my house again [01:11.43]Thought he got off early doing time in the pen [01:13.83]Even though my brothers do me just like that [01:16.26]I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to [01:18.95]The ghetto [01:20.16]Talking 'bout the ghetto [01:21.90] [01:23.47]The ghetto [01:24.27] [01:24.88]Funk funky ghetto [01:27.56] [01:28.30]The ghetto [01:29.12] [01:37.78]So just peep the game and don't call it crap [01:40.17]Cause to me life is one hard rap [01:42.80]Even though my sister smoked crack coc*ine [01:45.02]She was nine months pregnant ain't nothing changed [01:47.13] [01:47.65]600 million on a footbal team [01:49.78]And her baby dies just like a d**e fiend [01:51.82] [01:52.40]The story I tell is so incomplete [01:54.69]Five kids in the house and no food to eat [01:57.02]Don't look at me and don't ask me why [01:59.61]Mama's next door getting high [02:01.75]Even though she's got five mouths to feed [02:04.33]She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T [02:06.66]I always tell the truth about things like this [02:09.06]I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list [02:11.38]Instead of adding to the task force send some help [02:13.55] [02:14.06]Waiting on him I'd better help myself [02:15.84] [02:16.40]Housing Authority and the O P D [02:18.70]All these guns just to handle me in the [02:20.94]The ghetto [02:21.74] [02:25.84]The ghetto [02:27.16] [02:30.65]The ghetto [02:31.30] [02:35.45]The ghetto [02:36.17] [02:40.22]The ghetto [02:41.03] [02:44.57]Even though they put us down and call us animals [02:47.33]We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes [02:49.82]Drive fancy cars make love to stars [02:52.31]Never really saying just who we are [02:54.57]We use alias names like TOO SHORT [02:57.17]Sell you stuff you might kill for [02:59.41]Young kids grow up and that's all they know [03:01.81]Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin' d**e [03:04.18]Only thing he knows is how to survive [03:06.53]But will he kill another brother before he dies [03:08.86]In the ghetto you keep one eye open [03:11.65]All day long just hoping and hoping [03:13.86]You can pay your bills and not drink too much [03:16.25]Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up [03:18.62]Like me but you don't see [03:21.00]Ten years from now where will you be [03:23.43]The ghetto [03:24.41] [03:28.15]The ghetto [03:28.90] [03:33.01]The ghetto [03:33.71] [03:37.82]The ghetto [03:38.53] [03:42.96]So much game in a Too rap [03:45.31]Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black [03:47.62]Why you wanna act like someone else [03:49.80]All you gotta do is just be yourself [03:52.26]We're all the same color underneath [03:54.55]Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me [03:57.18]Never be ashamed of what you are [03:59.49]Proud to be black stand tall at heart [04:01.77]Even though some people give you no respect [04:04.12]Be intelligent when you put 'em in check [04:06.55]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 [04:11.39]So if you don't listen it's not my fault [04:13.82]I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost [04:16.31]Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth [04:18.67]While me and my peoples try to get out [04:21.02]The ghetto [04:21.58] [04:25.82]The ghetto [04:26.78] [04:30.65]The ghetto [04:31.30] [04:35.37]The ghetto [04:36.16] [04:40.15]The ghetto [04:40.86] [04:44.94]The ghetto [04:45.55] [04:49.89]The ghetto [04:50.41] [04:54.56]The ghetto