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Dead or Alive - Too $hort |
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I heard there was a rumor Too $hort was dead |
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Walked in the house and got shot in the head |
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I know you don't believe it if you do you're wrong |
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How can I die and rock it all night long |
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I'm Too $hort baby spit that rap |
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I put Oakland California on the map |
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It's so hard got you telling lies |
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Can't hold me back so you say I died |
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It's incredible I came back to life |
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I never let 'em bury me without my mic |
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I keep breathing don't stop that breath |
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Now everybody's talking about Too $hort's death |
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Am I a zombie or something close |
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I'm not Casper I mack all the ghosts |
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Oaktown style is the only way |
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I catch a new freak every day |
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It's not the Yellow Brick Road it's called the Foothill Strip |
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Stand on your toes make your heels go click |
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Three times it's no place like home |
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So why you wanna bury me all alone |
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I bring a new meaning to underground rap |
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Dead or Alive I'm still Born to Mack |
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Always on the pop charts straight rapping |
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I'm not dead I'm just macking |
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So as the word turns I'm a living soul |
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I even heard a rumor that I overdosed |
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I'm not a reincarnation of something old |
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Like King Tut I was buried in gold |
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Why you wanna cry when I'm still living |
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Word got out and the rumors started spreading |
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My momma called one night |
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Said "Todd are you all right |
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The whole family's got the Too $hort blues |
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I heard it last night on the evening news" |
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And that's bad it's not even true |
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I told my momma like this "Let's sue" |
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So many times I heard I died |
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I guess I'm like a cat and I got nine lives |
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Well I'm the P-L-A Y-E-R |
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I lay bunnies like Hugh Heffner |
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I'm her flavor kinda saucy |
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I lay back and let the young freak toss me |
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Even if she don't like serving a pimp |
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I'm still living so let's do it again |
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I keep rapping hard as hell |
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Cause your rumors make my records sell |
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If you continue I'll soon be rich |
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Riding around town going "Biiiitch " |
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People always say "Too $hort can't rap" |
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Now I drive a Benz and my bank is fat |
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It's like crap put a "c" on a rhyme |
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Ain't nothing left homie but a scandalous crime |
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I'm the best damn rapper you could ever hate |
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Say I died on the freeway in the earthquake |
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Say I'm washed up say I'm through |
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But the fact still stands I'm better than you |
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You got rhymes Well I got more |
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I take you on a trip to my rappin' store |
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You find rhymes and raps poems and caps |
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Way more raps than any rapper could rap |
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Cause if you rap like me he wouldn't have to be |
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Weak on the mic like my boy MC |
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It don't stop to the funky beat |
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I know you like dancing with a real big freak |
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I can't dance but I sure can rhyme |
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I sold a million in '89 |
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And if you didn't know baby it's the 90's now |
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Old Short Dog got a new breakdown |
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I went to Miko's fresh candy paint |
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Now I'm doing things that the suckers can't |
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If I was dead they'd call it "Dead Man's Rap" |
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But on the real Short Dog is back |
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Funk funky off the Parliament |
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I'm still living so let's do it again |
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It's incredible even if I die |
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I never let 'em bury me without my mic |
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I bring a new meaning to underground rap |
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Dead or alive I'm still Born to Mack |
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I say "What's up" to my homies in Santa Rita |
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Right about now I know you need a |
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Too $hort rhyme to get you through the day |
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Oaktown style is the only way |
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I came up and now I've sworn |
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To rock this mic til I can't no more |
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And that's game straight pop the most |
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MC rapper from the West Coast |
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Too $hort dead or alive |
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I still chill on the Eastside |
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Cause I remember how it all began |
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House parties in East Oakland |
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Now it's on the pop charts still rapping |
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I'm not dead I'm just macking |
