[Too $hort]
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These are the tales
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These are the tales that I tell so well
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(tune in to the history channel)
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These are the tales (learn a lesson biatch)
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these are the tales that I tell so well (Short Dog)
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I'm thinkin' way back, it's been a long long time
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In 1980 I wrote my first rhyme
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I like to spit a lot of game
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but back then, I was just sayin' my name
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I had a record player, on my stereo
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Got down on my knees with my radio
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From Oakland California with some new shit
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I'm Sir Too $hort I'm bout to do this
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In 1981, that's where it all begun
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We do it for the money we don't rap for fun
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Five dolla's fo' a tape, Too $hort and Freddy B
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Money in my pocket's all I ever need
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It was me, Fred B, and Freddy Brack
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Dipped the sermon sticks then we smoked them phat
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While we rapped about the bitches and all the ho's
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Can't be in the hole tryin' to ball without vogues
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In '82 you was in the game
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with a Falcon, Cougar or a Mustang
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Me and Freddy B used to hit the turfs
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with a bag of tapes puttin in work, Biatch
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In '83 you hit a house party
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a dolla' get you in and a dolla' fo' a drink
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I'm on the turntable smokin' get-right
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and at mid-night I'll be rappin' on the mic
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I did the same thang, for the next two years
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That's why they say my name, when I come through here
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When I was 16, I want'd to be a mack
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I went to Fremont High with Lil' D and Black
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Young ballers in the town livin' real phat
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Never had the sack but I smoked a little crack
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Crushed up in the weed, we call em bass rock Caddies
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Goin' on them grimmies make them ho's call me daddy
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[Hook]
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These are the tales, these are the tales that I tell so well
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These are the tales, these are the tales that I tell so well
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[Too $hort]
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It's been 15 years since that shit happened
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But Too $hort don't stop rappin'
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In '85, I was on the right page
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Ten thousand niggaz, $hort live on stage
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Underground tapes was all they ever heard
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but the whole crowd sang along with me word for word
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And that changed everything
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Went to Seventy Five Girls and hooked up with Dean
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Real player-ism and that's no joke
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Snort a lot of coke with ho's that like to smoke
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I was makin' records but wasn't makin' money
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you can take it seriously or you can think its funny
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By '87, I was on my own, started Dangerous Music
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and I made the song "These are the tales, the freaky tales"
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No radio or video or CD sales
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Six platinums in a row Ice Cube and Cool J
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Who else did that shit? $hort Dog from the Bay
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These ho's try to play it safe
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but I been mackin' hard since eighty-eight
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And from eighty-nine to ninety-six
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I was rappin' on the mic talkin' shit about a bitch
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I'll retire 10 times and I'll still be here
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My old records sell about a half a mil' a year
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I say "bitch get naked" so pimpishly
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spit rhymes through decades and centuries
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And bitches just love my dirty mouth
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when I see you again I'ma cuss you out, BIATCH!
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That's my gift, now all you rappers get to say that shit
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I wont sue you, but that's the trademark
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I was a grown ass man when you was playin' in the park lil' nigga
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[Hook]
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[Too $hort]
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Now I'm in Atlanta I still love the O
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I gave you my bitch but you can't have my flow
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I guest appeared on 47 albums
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Fuck McDonalds and fuck Calvin
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I get money with Erick Sermon when I'm in New York
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I get respect, they call me Too $hort
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I live swell in A.T.L. cause I'm a player
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We fuckin' hella ho's at X House in Decatur where it's greater
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You know how we ride
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I got love for all niggaz from the EastSide
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It was me, Ant Banks and Shorty B
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All we need to do is find my nigga PeeWee
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We used to be on Murdel Street makin' funky songs
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if you see him tell him Short said its back on
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Lets get this money, midwest down South
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East coast West coast ride out, BIATCH
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[Too $hort talking over Hook]
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That's my gift to rap, you can have that word
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Say bitch all you want, all you regular fake ass niggas
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You finally get to have Too $hort's bitch, trick
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[Hook]
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These Are the Tales
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Too Short |