City of D**e-Too $hort

[ti:City of D**e] [ar:Too $hort] [al:The Essential] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]City of D**e - Too $hort [00:20.88]City of D**e I call it Oak [00:23.57]Can't be broke selling coke [00:26.36]Fat ropes shattered hopes [00:28.79]Fresh cars and all that d**e [00:31.61]Baseheads keep the trade alive [00:33.86]Nobody know about a 9 to 5 [00:36.78]Everybody's just trying to survive [00:39.26]You need a gun can't use those knives [00:41.82]You got a bullet Well just pull it [00:44.53]And if you trip get pistol-whipped [00:46.51]By a psychomaniac sick in his head [00:49.18]Wanna be a gangster now he's dead [00:51.83]His brother took over ain't no sweat [00:54.43]Bought a new drop-top white Corvette [00:56.83]Now he's buying keys making G's [00:59.79]And all the girls say Won't you please [01:02.08]Take me In the City of D**e [01:12.16]See I'm hard as hell no ghetto tale [01:15.34]You play a gun but the game is real [01:17.90]You want to stop my money how [01:20.47]You keep smoking I'm selling out [01:22.11]It's called the City of D**e might be your town [01:25.11]Get a piece of the rock turn your life around [01:27.71]So cool don't even trip [01:30.89]You got the sack get on the tip [01:33.47]A resident in the City of D**e [01:35.91]And every day I'm selling coke [01:38.49]I'm never broke I don't smoke [01:40.84]I sold a rock and made you have a stroke [01:43.16]Pay cold cash you know I won't need Bruno [01:45.89]I'll hit you with my gat and then I won't come back [01:48.43]Like ym peanut butter top with the candy paint [01:50.93]All the high school tenders drop down and faint [01:53.44]In the City of D**e [02:04.09]Life in a coke town heard it before [02:06.34]Think it's all been said but it's so much more [02:08.81]It's like midnight slanging rock [02:10.26]Task force just hit the block [02:12.29]Time to make a move the spot got hot [02:17.16]You chase a cop homeboy why not [02:19.39]She lit the match and light the crack [02:21.81]Ain't giving no b**ches no kind of slack [02:24.46]Or if you're playing the game you're thinking the same [02:27.59]Goddamn that rock coc*ine [02:29.53]I've seen a lot of my friends go off that pipe [02:32.56]And every night smoke coke that's white [02:34.76]So when you get up man there you go [02:37.48]You and that pipe just dogging the hoes [02:39.85]In the City of D**e and the story goes [02:42.43]Want to be like free breaking millions of loaves [02:44.98]In the City of D**e where the color is gold [02:47.59]On your neck and your fingers and your brand new Rolls [02:50.19]Enough said but my rap won't end [02:52.77]It's on a one way trip to San Quinten [02:55.29]Like you my friend ain't nothing new [02:57.48]You want to grind that boat til it's way past two [03:00.52]You say it's not easy that you're so hard [03:03.07]Sporting gold tone Z's not credit cards [03:05.55]Got clout turn 'em out you got b**ches [03:08.21]You say you're not fake but I'm telling you this is [03:10.89]The City of D**e might be your world [03:13.38]Get a beeper homeboy and just sell that girl [03:16.02]I'm from the town called The City of D**e [03:18.61]It couldn't be saved by John the Pope [03:20.91]So go on live your life of crime [03:23.77]The beat'll keep beating while I say my rhyme [03:26.27]In the City of D**e [03:36.60]Smoking w**d rolling 'em fat [03:39.28]You wonder where the boy learned to act like that [03:41.74]Hey was raised in the ghetto and felt the need [03:44.36]To roll a fat joint and smoke that w**d [03:46.88]But the tale goes on and years went by [03:49.57]Another ** came and the boy got high [03:52.05]Ever since that day he just wasn't the same [03:54.70]Where I come from we call it rock coc*ine [03:57.32]Where you come from you might call it crack [03:59.73]But wherever he went you see he never came back [04:02.27]I tried to tell the motherf**ker but he don't know [04:05.37]I say to coke Pimp that how [04:07.47]I don't live in a mansion but I drive a Benz [04:10.30]Cut to the turf and collect my ends [04:12.69]Say Look here freak kick me down [04:15.33]I don't have time to talk right now [04:17.78]Got to go to my next hoe [04:20.49]And get kicked down a little more [04:23.07]Left right left down the street [04:25.65]Getting paid freak by freak [04:28.37]There you see me there you don't [04:30.82]You wonder will I or won't [04:33.47]Is it yes is it no [04:35.84]But does it really matter you freaky hoe [04:38.42]In the City of D**e