Survivin' The Game-Too $hort

[ti:Survivin' The Game] [ar:Too $hort] [al:Gettin' It (Album Number Ten)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Survivin' The Game - Too $hort [00:00.70]Yeah Short Dawg in the house [00:02.75]Survivin' the game [00:04.03]Survivin' the game man [00:05.10]Survivin' the game [00:06.47]It ain't easy when you out here for uh [00:10.00]Ten years hanging with the cut throats [00:11.80] [00:12.77]Back stabbers playa [00:15.63]Haters y'know what I'm sayin' [00:17.57] [00:18.16]But I'm a b**ch killa always was [00:21.58]And always will be [00:22.25]If you ain't in the right state of mind [00:24.16]Don't play with me [00:25.59]'Cause they ain't never ended slavery [00:28.02]You f**kin' with my freedom [00:29.39]Let's keep it real fool [00:30.89]Don't underestimate niggaz [00:32.25]That who'll kill you [00:33.52]'Cause everything changed [00:35.33]And everybody got a strap [00:37.17]Don't wanna be attacked [00:38.37]Better keep it on your lap [00:39.88]I'm smobbing in my drop [00:41.19]I'm feelin' like Priest [00:42.58]Super fly top down speeding [00:44.57]Down the streets [00:45.49]Killas on the prowl and jacking is how [00:48.05]They get paid pull out a gat [00:49.71]And break your a** down [00:50.98]Ni**a show no fear [00:52.34]But you scared as hell [00:53.83]And your partner riding [00:54.78]Which he's prepared to tell [00:56.48]But you don't know it yet [00:57.88]You havin' hella fun [00:59.29]And when the sh*t hit the fan [01:00.72]And you on the run [01:01.94]You better pray if they catch [01:03.64]Your homeboy first [01:04.48]'Cause if they put him under pressure [01:05.90]He's bound to burst [01:07.71]Into a long conversation [01:09.27]'Bout everything you did [01:10.89]No more tusslin' [01:12.36]Time to do a bid [01:13.69]In that brand new jail that [01:15.26]They built for you [01:16.26]Where the smallest little things [01:17.82]You get killed over [01:19.08]Survivin' the game [01:19.98] [01:21.51]Survivin' the game [01:22.44] [01:24.08]Survivin' the game [01:25.61] [01:27.06]Survivin' the game [01:28.55] [01:30.65]Ain't no bailin' out got you mad as hell [01:33.26]Instead of sending you to school [01:34.96]They pay to keep you in jail [01:36.22]That cost way more [01:37.36]When you do time [01:38.82]When you creep through the hood [01:40.44]And kill your own kind [01:41.61]They building county jails [01:42.92]And penitentiaries [01:44.29]They gettin' ready for the 21st century [01:47.24]Computers taking over [01:48.56]Money's obsolete [01:49.86]Now they buying all the houses [01:51.69]In the ghetto streets [01:52.48]They way we live now [01:54.39]We can't last long [01:55.68]'Cause everyday niggaz gettin' [01:58.05]They blast on [01:58.67]Funerals and court dates [01:59.38]Plea bargain for your life [02:01.37]You'll be out in twelve years [02:02.94]Once a month see your wife [02:04.59]Now how that sound [02:06.80]You killed the black man [02:07.95]Now they got you locked down [02:09.50]They let you learn a trade [02:11.13]Working years for pennies [02:12.28]All that sh*t you building [02:14.15]Was making white man plenty [02:15.73]Got the game f**ked up [02:17.21]And you'll never be rich [02:18.59]It's all about respect [02:19.75]And they treat you like a b**ch [02:21.63]Survivin' the game [02:23.01] [02:23.52]Survivin' the game [02:24.64] [02:26.36]Survivin' the game [02:27.42] [02:29.08]Survivin' the game [02:30.04] [02:32.73]I was born with the skills of a black man [02:35.25]To survive in the streets and keep stackin' [02:38.15]I'm thirty years old and far from done [02:41.05]I don't care what you think [02:42.58]I ain't forgot where I'm from [02:44.20]East Oakland [02:45.48]That's where I learned [02:46.79]Everything I know [02:47.99]And when I got my turn [02:49.78]I never came fake on a microphone [02:51.83] [02:52.41]I always let 'em know [02:53.90]That the town is home [02:55.13]I wasn't born in Oakland [02:56.71]I was born a mack [02:58.05]Stay true to the game [02:59.37]Always stating the facts [03:00.35]B**ch you can't stop my mack attack [03:03.58]I know you love this sh*t [03:05.31]When I rap like that [03:06.60]You never would get me to change my style [03:09.18]I spent 20 million dollars [03:10.86]On a brand new house [03:12.07]I got bills to pay no time to be fake [03:14.88]Eating top rump don't f**k with steak [03:17.77]Don't be jealous of me [03:19.07]'Cause it's well known [03:20.46]I could slip in a minute after hella songs [03:23.30]Make one fake album and I'm through [03:25.58]I be a broke a** ni**a like you [03:28.50]So I just try to stay focused [03:30.15]And do my job [03:31.84]Turn that sh*t up loud [03:33.20]And watch a b**ch head bob [03:35.17]'Cause I'm the Too S H O R T [03:37.30]I take a square a** b**ch [03:39.05]And turn her into a freak [03:40.50]Survivin' the game [03:41.83] [03:42.55]Survivin' the game [03:43.94] [03:45.32]Survivin' the game [03:46.22] [03:48.13]Survivin' the game [03:49.05] [03:51.58]Now growing old in the streets [03:52.94]Ain't no easy task [03:54.34]Losing homeboys every time [03:56.14]The season pass [03:57.40]Gettin' phone calls another soldier dead [04:00.22]Sittin' in the car got four in the head [04:03.16]Rush to his mama house the sh*t is real [04:05.94]Trying to find out why a ni**a got killed [04:08.22]I'm about to hurt somebody [04:09.85]Give a f**k who [04:11.21]'Cause you already know [04:12.64]What you need to do [04:14.47]Kill another black man [04:15.80]That's what you figure [04:17.34]Just what we need [04:18.64]Another dead ni**a [04:19.43] [04:20.08]Got your guns you don't want none [04:22.84]You stupid motherf**ker [04:23.83]Where they come from [04:25.51]From the white man [04:26.64]Get 'em like fast food [04:28.16]With an attitude to make a ni**a blast you [04:30.97]You little violent motherf**ker [04:32.93]Don't play with me [04:33.81]'Cause they ain't never ended slavery [04:36.18]Survivin' the game [04:37.50] [04:39.02]Survivin' the game [04:39.96] [04:41.89]Survivin' the game [04:42.95] 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