these are the tales

these are the tales

these are the tales that i tell so well

these are the tales

these are the tales that i tell so well

i'm thinkin' way back

it's been a long long time

in 1980 i wrote my first rhyme

i like to spit a lot of game

but back then

i was just sayin' my name

i had a record player

on my stereo

got down on my knees with my radio

from oakland california with some new shit

i'm sir too $hort i'm bout to do this

in 1981

that's where it all begun

we do it for the money we don't rap for fun

five dolla's fo' a tape

too $hort and freddy b

money in my pocket's all i ever need

it was me

fred b

and freddy brack

dipped the sermon sticks then we smoked them phat

while we rapped about the bitches and all the ho's

can't be in the hole tryin' to ball without vogues

in '82 you was in the game

with a falcon

cougar or a mustang

me and freddy b used to hit the turfs

with a bag of tapes puttin in work

biatch

in '83 you hit a house party

a dolla' get you in and a dolla' fo' a drink

i'm on the turntable smokin' get-right

and at mid-night i'll be rappin' on the mic

i did the same thang

for the next two years

that's why they say my name

when i come through here

when i was 16

i want'd to be a mack

i went to fremont high with lil' d and black

young ballers in the town livin' real phat

never had the sack but i smoked a little crack

crushed up in the weed

we call em bass rock caddies

goin' on them grimmies make them ho's call me daddy

these are the tales

these are the tales that i tell so well

these are the tales

these are the tales that i tell so well

it's been 15 years since that shit happened

but too $hort don't stop rappin'

in '85

i was on the right page

ten thousand niggaz

$hort live on stage

underground tapes was all they ever heard

but the whole crowd sang along with me word for word

and that changed everything

went to seventy five girls and hooked up with dean

real player-ism and that's no joke

snort a lot of coke with ho's that like to smoke

i was makin' records but wasn't makin' money

you can take it seriously or you can think its funny

by '87

i was on my own

started dangerous music

and i made the song these are the tales