[ti:Gettin' It]
[ar:Too $hort]
[al:Gettin' It (Album Number Ten)]
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[00:00.00]Gettin' It - Too $hort/Parliament Funkadelic
[00:02.13]That's right album number ten Short Dawg's in the house
[00:07.50]It's gettin close to the end y'all
[00:09.32]But we gonna kick it like this on the last album
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[00:45.93]Now let me holler at ya partner spit this game
[00:48.74]In you ear for a minute quit complaining
[00:51.43]Bout how you can't spend it cause you ain't got it
[00:54.69]You got what it takes but not enough to get started
[00:57.44]I hope you get the message no it's not a test it's
[01:00.38]Just me ridin legit they can't arrest me or bust me
[01:04.19]I'm still hungry I want some more stuff
[01:07.19]Get fat and watch my whole crew blow up
[01:09.88]So get yours and buy my new album
[01:12.62]Peep the game and don't be like Calvin
[01:15.38]Get everything you want get real get you mail
[01:17.94]Get your girl to make bail and get your a** out of jail
[01:20.88]You should be gettin it everything you want
[01:23.12]Everything you dreamed of never have to front
[01:26.07]You shoulf be gettin it gettin money
[01:28.94]I'm talking bout you black don't laugh it ain't funny
[01:31.62]You should get a good lawyer like Johnny Cochran
[01:34.00]Swear to tell the truth hell no I didn't pop him
[01:37.38]Get your kids in school so they can get an education
[01:40.31]Get a degree and take a vacation
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[01:43.50]You see I got all my game from the streets of California
[01:46.69]Young millionaire with no high school diploma
[01:49.69]Livin real good taking care of my folks
[01:52.32]Roll up a fat one for the players to smoke
[01:55.08]Short Dawg in the house I know you ain't trippin
[01:58.08]Cause Life is Too $hort you gotta Get In Where You Fit In
[02:01.01]Stop looking for what you never seem to find
[02:03.89]It ain't what you think you got to read between the lines
[02:06.64]Cause life ain't long for a young black man
[02:09.46]Tryin to make money doing all he can
[02:12.20]Sellin d**e don't ya hope he would go to classB
[02:15.26]But the boy makes money and he makes it fast
[02:18.01]With the twenties on top and the fifties on the bottom
[02:20.70]I f**k the top notches oh yes we got em
[02:23.70]It's been a long time since I first got down
[02:26.39]But I still keep makin these funky sounds
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[02:33.85]Get your money man
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[02:38.72]Get yours
[02:39.85]You should be gettin it
[02:42.72]Get it while the gettin is good get it while you can
[02:45.79]You should be gettin it
[02:48.65]Get it while the gettin is good
[03:03.74]It's time to come up put your dollar bills in the air
[03:06.43]He said meet me at the White House and I was there
[03:09.18]Cause I'm one in a million black man rising
[03:12.25]They wanna keep me down but I always surprise em
[03:15.12]Spend my money in the hood I know it's all good
[03:17.87]And you should do the same I told you peep the game
[03:21.12]Too $hort you know I'm the man
[03:23.43]I lend my brother a hand cause I know I can
[03:26.24]I keep going and goin but I'm not the pink bunny
[03:29.31]I'm not beatin on a drum I never stop thinkin money
[03:32.06]I'm gettin all I can if you don't ya slip
[03:34.87]I can't wait to get to heaven just to have a grip
[03:37.68]When I was broke I couldn't afford a meal
[03:40.55]But now I'm now rich I can't be fake I gots to keep it real
[03:43.68]It's been a long time baby since I first got down
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[03:46.51]But it still keep making these funky sounds
[03:48.76]You should be gettin it
[03:51.08]Get it while the gettin is good get it while you can
[03:54.45]You should be gettin it
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[03:56.70]Get it while the gettin is good
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