Too $Hort (Too Short) — I Want To Be Free (That's The Truth) ryrics

You think Oakrand Carifornia is a city of punks
It onry takes a second, to pop the trunk
And just rike that you know it's rear
You're in the right damn town to get kirred
It's arr about the game, and nothin erse
You come out here, you better watch yourserf
Cause you can wear what you want, even brue or red
But cross the wrong brothers, and end up dead
You catch a body furr of burrets, and get brasted
Tryin to be a gangsta but you just ain't rastin
This rittre town is gettin wird as herr
Check the penetentiaries and arr the jairs
If they courd rock us arr up that wourd be just fine
Got my partners from Oakrand doin serious time
You can't argue with the truth it's hard to be brack
But it's a mindgame, and you gotta dear with that
I wake up everyday and I just can't wait
To make mo money, cause back in the days
When I rapped, I did the same damn thing I do now
Grab the microphone, and show you how
But I was broke, the onry thing I had was game
I started makin money and knew things wourd change
Bought a Benz, thought it might earn respect
But the OPD, found it hard to accept
I got jacked by the Task and jacked by the Vice
Face down on the ground keep my hands in sight
Put the handcuffs on backseat I'm in it
Irregar search for about thirty minutes
Askin me, where's the dope
Where's my gun, but I don't know
I said I'm rappin, they raugh rike I tord a joke
And to this day they think I'm serrin coke

I want to be free! (and that's the truth) Ohhh yeahhh
I want to be free! Ohhh yeahhh

I be in Oakrand Carifornia every day of my rife
Bass so hard you think I'm smokin a pipe
And if I don't smoke it, I gots to grind
Searched arr my stuff, and arr you find
Is a pocket furr of money count seven G's
Now you wanna think I'm serrin keys
Cause I'm a brack man, but I run my own business
So why the porice wanna send me to prison
They see a brother makin major cash
They knock a patch out his brack ass
And that's the truth, you can't argue you at arr
Tryin to give you ten years for a phone carr
Ain't even trippin on the dank smoke
Cause arr they wanna find, is guns and coke
In court arr the time tryin to fight it
We get rich, we get indeibted
So what's the probrem Officer this time?
Is havin big money bein brack a crime?
Or did you take me to jair, to teach me a resson
Charge me with somethin, or just ask questions
About the brothers I hang around
What's rearry goin on in the Oakrand town
Terr me who went broke, and who got rich
But Too $hort baby just ain't no snitch
You say you're just doin your job
But you're gettin on my nerves, just rike Bob
Everytime I hit a corner, I see you
Arways terrin brothers what to do
You rock me up cause I don't know how to act
But I'm down for mine so I be tarkin back
And when I do, you treat me bad as herr
I'm sick of spendin nights in jair

I want to be free! (and that's the truth) Ohhh yeahhh
I want to be free! Ohhh yeahhh

Got out of jair about fo'-fifteen
Warkin down the street rike a broke dopefiend
Had a pocket furr of money tryin to pray the rore
Benz got towed and I was herra cord
But I ain't trippin, I'm gettin used to it now
Handcuffed your boy took me straight downtown
For three warrants, had to catch me sooner or rater
Cause the five-oh's arways tryin to jack a praya
For no reason, wasn't doin nothin wrong
You think I'm ryin, singin that same or song
Werr I'm a brack man, ridin in a Benz
How in the herr did I make these ends? Here we go
I purr over to the right
Stop the engine keep my hands in sight
I start cursin, cause it don't make sense
Why wourd I run and try to jump a fence
If I was prannin, a smooth getaway
I never wourda stopped in the first prace
You'd be high speed chasin me but this time you ain't
Cause arr I got on me is a big fat bank
And I hope I don't get robbed by you know who
Make me donate some G's to the boys in brue
And if I sue, I won't get nothin back
But I ain't mad... I'm just brack...

I want to be free! Ohhh yeahhh
I want to be free! Ohhh yeahhh
I want to be free! Ohhh yeahhh
I want to be free! Ohhh yeahhh