Gettin' It Lyrics

That's right, album number ten, Short Dawg's in the house
It's gettin close to the end y'all
But we gonna kick it like this on the last album


Verse One: Too $hort

Now let me holler at ya partner, spit this game
In you ear for a minute, quit
Complaining
Bout how you can't spend it cause you ain't got it
You got what it takes but not enough to get started
I hope you get the message, no it's not a test it's
Just me ridin legit, they can't arrest me or bust me
I'm still hungry, I want some more stuff
Get fat and watch my whole crew blow up
So get yours, and buy my new album
Peep the game and don't be like Calvin
Get everything you want, get real, get you mail
Get your girl to make bail and get your ass out of jail
You should be gettin it, everything you want
Everything you dreamed of, never have to front
You should be gettin it, gettin money
I'm talking bout you black, don't laugh it ain't funny
You should get a good lawyer, like Johnny Cochran
Swear to tell the truth, hell no I didn't pop him
Get your kids in school, so they can get an education
Get a degree, and take a vacation
You see I got all my game from the streets of California
Young millionaire with no high school diploma
Livin real good, taking care of my folks
Roll up a fat one for the players to smoke
Short Dawg in the house, I know you ain't trippin
Cause Life is Too $hort you gotta Get In Where You Fit In
Stop looking for what you never seem to find
It ain't what you think you got to read between the lines
Cause life ain't long, for a young black man
Tryin to make money doing all he can
Sellin dope don't ya hope he would go to classB
But the boy makes money and he makes it fast
With the twenties on top and the fifties on the bottom
A flock a top notches oh yes we got'em
It's been a long time since I first got down
But I still keep makin these funky sounds
Get your money man
Get yours

Chorus: P-Funk

You should be gettin it
Get it while the gettin is good, get it while you can
You should be gettin it
Get it while the gettin is good (repeat as necessary)

Verse Two: Too $hort

I know you tired of being broke just hanging out
You gotta lot a dreams but you can't get out
The first thing you need to do is set your self some goals
Think positive, everything else is old
And work hard, never stop hustlin
Cause they just love to see the black man strugglin
(So what are you saying Todd?)
It's time to come up, put your dollar bills in the air
He said meet me at the White House and I was there
Cause I'm one in a million, black man rising
They wanna keep me down but I always surprise em
Spend my money in the hood, I know it's all good
And you should do the same I told you peep the game
Too $hort, you know I'm the man
I lend my brother a hand cause I know I can
I keep going and goin but I'm not the pink bunny
I'm not beatin on a drum I never stop thinkin money
I'm gettin all I can if you don't ya slip
I can't wait to get to heaven just to have a grip
When I was broke, I couldn't afford a meal
But now I'm now rich I can't be fake I gots to keep it real
It's been a long time baby since I first got down
But it still keep making these funky sounds

Chorus

(I earned my respect in the street
The ghetto's been good to me
I'm never going to turn my back
The true and living so I got to kick the facts)

Featuring: Funkadelic, Parliament

Produced By: George Clinton, Shorty B

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1.   Gettin' It
2.   Survivin' the Game
3.   That's Why
4.   Bad Ways
5.   Fuck My Car
6.   Take My Bitch
7.   Buy You Some
8.   Pimp Me
9.   Baby D
10.   Nasty Rhymes
11.   Never Talk Down
12.   I Must Confess
13.   So Watcha Sayin'

Gettin' It Meaning

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Gettin' It

Another Classic track from short dawg.

The track samples, Bootsy’s Rubber Band,
“I’d Rather Be With You”

Other westcoast veterans that sampled the same track includes,
2pac with “Rather be ya nigga”
And NWA with “Id rather F*** You.

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That's right, album number ten, Short Dawg's in the house
It's gettin close to the end y'all
But we gonna kick it like this on the last album

Around 1996, Too Short jokingly stated that his 10th album was his last. In reality, this was a massive publicity stunt.

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So get yours, and buy my new album

Buy my album learn the recipe so we both can get paid. Iron sharpening Iron. Check snoop and Too Short convo on GGN on how he wanted to balance his music out.

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I keep going and goin but I'm not the pink bunny

In 1989, Energizer batteries started a TV advertising campaign featuring a battery-powered toy pink bunny that beat a drum. The main idea was that Energizer batteries lasted so long, that the toy could keep “going and going”. The first advertisement that featured the bunny had it march right off the set of the commercial. This was immediately followed by what looked to be an ad for another product, but part way through, the bunny marched across the screen. This pseudo-ad was then immediately followed by a third that followed suit. The campaign featured several more ads in the following months that had the bunny interrupting what seemed to be a “real” commercial by marching across the screen.