标题：The ghetto
歌曲介绍
The ghetto是Rap歌手Too short的歌曲。
类型：Hip-Hop Gangsta-Rap
Too short介绍
生于洛杉矶，本名Todd Shaw的Too Short在Oakland成长，年仅17岁的他因对音乐的狂热而DIY了个人第一张专辑〈Don't Stop Rappin'〉，而且当下放在自己的后车箱沿街叫卖起来，始料未及的是，他的作品竟在当地卷起一股小旋风甚至被女孩们索取签名；随后Too $hort仍马不停蹄地创作延续至80末，便和好友Freddy B.合资成就独立厂牌「Dangerous Music」，发行label下首张唱片《Born To Mack》，光靠他们骑车巡回的贩售方式五万张就没了。
好运当头，他被美国音乐大厂「Jive Records」相中缔结盟约，在尚无电台强力播放的情况下《Born To Mack》还是卖到黄金片数，恐怖的是尔后「Jive」替他发的《Life Is...Too $hort》、《Short Dog's In The House》、《Shorty The Pimp》、《Get In Where You Fit In》到95年的《Cocktails》无一不攻占各大杂志的Hip-Hop / R&B榜或拿下重白金，'96末期随著第五张白金《Gettin' It (Album Number Ten)》宣告退休，两年后《Can't Stay Away》的他重返沙场一跃登上榜单前十大再次狂卖，对一个嘻哈乐手来说…没有人了。
歌词
Talking bout the ghetto funky funky ghetto
Trying to survive, trying to stay alive
The ghetto
{Talking bout the ghetto}
The ghetto
The ghetto
The ghetto
{Funk funky ghetto}
Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
Old school buddies not doing it right
Every day it's the same
And it's the same every night
I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool
If he played me close and tried to test my cool
Every day I wonder just how I'll die
Only thing I know is how to survive
There's only one rule in the real world
And that's to take care of you, only you and yours
Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
Might deal me some dope but then crime don't pay
Black man tried to break into my house again
Thought he got off early doing time in the pen
Even though my brothers do me just like that
I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the
The ghetto
The ghetto
So just peep the game and don't call it crap
Cause to me, life is one hard rap
Even though my sister smoked crack cocaine
She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed
600 million on a footbal team
And her baby dies just like a dope fiend
The story I tell is so incomplete
Five kids in the house and no food to eat
Don't look at me and don't ask me why
Mama's next door getting high
Even though she's got five mouths to feed
She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T
I always tell the truth about things like this
I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
Instead of adding to the task force send some help
Waiting on him I'd better help myself
Housing Authority and the O.P.D.
All these guns just to handle me in the
The ghetto
The ghetto
Even though they put us down and call us animals
We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
Drive fancy cars, make love to stars
Never really saying just who we are
We use alias names like TOOSHORT
Sell you stuff you might kill for
Young kids grow up and that's all they know
Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin dope
Only thing he knows is how to survive
But will he kill another brother before he dies?
In the ghetto, you keep one eye open
All day long, just hoping and hoping
You can pay your bills and not drink too much
Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up
Like me, but you don't see
Ten years from now, where will you be?
The ghetto
The ghetto
So much game in a Too rap
Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black
Why you wanna act like someone else?
All you gotta do is just be yourself
We're all the same color underneath
Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me
Never be ashamed of what you are
Proud to be black stand tall at heart
Even though some people give you no respect
Be intelligent, when you put em in check
Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way
And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say
So if you don't listen it's not my fault
I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost
Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth
While me and my peoples try to get out
The ghetto
The ghetto