[ti:The Ghetto] [ar:Too $hort] [al:Hip Hop - 100 Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ghetto - Too $hort [00:05.88]Talking 'bout the ghetto funky funky ghetto [00:12.99] [00:15.74]Trying to survive trying to stay alive [00:21.37]The ghetto [00:22.19] [00:26.02]The ghetto [00:26.59] [00:27.40]Talking 'bout the ghetto [00:29.36] [00:30.71]The ghetto [00:31.40] [00:35.54]The ghetto [00:36.24] [00:37.13]Funk funky ghetto [00:39.73]Even though the streets are bumpy lights burned out [00:43.05]D**e fiends die with a pipe in their mouths [00:45.40]Old school buddies not doing it right [00:47.56]Every day it's the same [00:48.60]And it's the same every night [00:49.96]I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool [00:52.43]If he played me close and tried to test my cool [00:54.77]Every day I wonder just how I'll die [00:57.09]Only thing I know is how to survive [00:59.15] [00:59.68]There's only one rule in the real world [01:01.83]And that's to take care of you only you and yours [01:04.36]Keep dealing with the hard times day after day [01:06.71]Might deal me some d**e but then crime don't pay [01:09.10]Black man tried to break into my house again [01:11.47]Thought he got off early doing time in the pen [01:13.86]Even though my brothers do me just like that [01:16.29]I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to [01:18.98]The ghetto [01:20.19]Talking 'bout the ghetto [01:21.93] [01:23.50]The ghetto [01:24.30] [01:24.91]Funk funky ghetto [01:27.59] [01:28.33]The ghetto [01:29.15] [01:37.81]So just peep the game and don't call it crap [01:40.20]Cause to me life is one hard rap [01:42.84]Even though my sister smoked crack coc*ine [01:45.06]She was nine months pregnant ain't nothing changed [01:47.17] [01:47.69]600 million on a footbal team [01:49.82]And her baby dies just like a d**e fiend [01:51.86] [01:52.44]The story I tell is so incomplete [01:54.73]Five kids in the house and no food to eat [01:57.06]Don't look at me and don't ask me why [01:59.65]Mama's next door getting high [02:01.78]Even though she's got five mouths to feed [02:04.36]She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T [02:06.69]I always tell the truth about things like this [02:09.09]I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list [02:11.41]Instead of adding to the task force send some help [02:13.58] [02:14.09]Waiting on him I'd better help myself [02:15.87] [02:16.43]Housing Authority and the O P D [02:18.73]All these guns just to handle me in the [02:20.97]The ghetto [02:21.77] [02:25.87]The ghetto [02:27.19] [02:30.68]The ghetto [02:31.33] [02:35.48]The ghetto [02:36.20] [02:40.25]The ghetto [02:41.06] [02:44.60]Even though they put us down and call us animals [02:47.36]We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes [02:49.85]Drive fancy cars make love to stars [02:52.34]Never really saying just who we are [02:54.60]We use alias names like TOO SHORT [02:57.20]Sell you stuff you might kill for [02:59.44]Young kids grow up and that's all they know [03:01.84]Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin' d**e [03:04.21]Only thing he knows is how to survive [03:06.56]But will he kill another brother before he dies [03:08.89]In the ghetto you keep one eye open [03:11.68]All day long just hoping and hoping [03:13.89]You can pay your bills and not drink too much [03:16.28]Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up [03:18.65]Like me but you don't see [03:21.03]Ten years from now where will you be [03:23.46]The ghetto [03:24.44] [03:28.18]The ghetto [03:28.93] [03:33.04]The ghetto [03:33.74] [03:37.85]The ghetto [03:38.56] [03:42.99]So much game in a Too rap [03:45.34]Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black [03:47.66]Why you wanna act like someone else [03:49.84]All you gotta do is just be yourself [03:52.30]We're all the same color underneath [03:54.59]Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me [03:57.22]Never be ashamed of what you are [03:59.53]Proud to be black stand tall at heart [04:01.81]Even though some people give you no respect [04:04.16]Be intelligent when you put 'em in check [04:06.59]Cause when you're ignorant you get treated that way [04:08.85]And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say [04:11.43]So if you don't listen it's not my fault [04:13.86]I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost [04:16.35]Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth [04:18.71]While me and my peoples try to get out [04:21.06]The ghetto [04:21.62] [04:25.86]The ghetto [04:26.82] [04:30.69]The ghetto [04:31.34] [04:35.41]The ghetto [04:36.20] [04:40.19]The ghetto [04:40.90] [04:44.98]The ghetto [04:45.59] [04:49.93]The ghetto [04:50.45] [04:54.60]The ghetto