Too $hort

Released: February 28, 2012

Featuring: Snoop Dogg

Songwriter: Elijah Baker Too $hort Snoop Dogg

Producer: Elijah Baker

[Intro]
Ooh, respect the pimpin'
Ooh, respect the pimpin'

[Verse 1: Too $hort]
I'll never forget the Ward Brothers, player
Old school pimps like Roosevelt Taylor
The list goes on for like three generations
Oakland pimp shit, all in your face, man
Some other cities take pride in trickin'
You can hear it when their rappers start spittin'
Instead of you and your woman gettin' money together
You do all the hustlin' and she gets all the cheddar
You tell her go shop but she ain't got a job
Then you brag in your raps, to me it sounds odd
'Cause I was raised by pimps in the O
They taught me real good how to send a ho
And now you niggas tryin' to bend the rules
You must have came up around some friendly dudes
You need to stop doin' all that extra simpin'
And change the words in your song and respect the pimpin'

[Chorus]
You've got money but you got no game
Think all the ladies wanna love you?
Probably gotta make it rain, take her shoppin'
Respect the pimpin'
You been frontin' for the cameras, posin'
Got your Gators and you're super cute, can you feel me?
Respect the pimpin'

[Verse 2: Snoop Dogg]
All I wanna be is well known now
Drive a 'Lac, big mack and do my own style
Keep a freak on the street that fit the profile
At the pad, money stack, watchin' dough pile
Reminiscin' of a player that I once knew
He had it all, went broke but he still kept it true
Bounced back like a real mack, got a new sack
New hoes, new clothes and found a new track
Now that's a player that I always wanna be like
Did dirt, went to church and lived the street life
Ask Short, ask Snoop, we gon' tell you the truth
A real pimp keep a prostitute, and she get lots of loot
Do what she gots to do
Come back with moolah like she 'posed to do
And stay close to you
So if you ever fell
Here's the one most important thing about this tale
Ask Michelle, Tammy and Nell when they went to jail
They know who came through with that bail - it was me
'Cause I respect the P, do the same
Don't be no lame, respect the game

[Outro]
Respect the pimpin'
Ooh, respect the pimpin'
Ooh, respect the pimpin'
Ooh, respect the pimpin'

Todd Anthony Shaw, better known as Too $hort, is a rapper, producer and actor from Oakland, California. He and his family moved up to Oakland from Los Angeles in the early 1980s, and he established himself as an artist selling “special request” custom tapes, leading into his first official album Don’t Stop Rappin' on the independent 75 Girls label.

He got a major label deal with Jive Records, first releasing his album Born To Mack before going on to release a number of albums and popular singles such as “Gettin' It,” “Shake That Monkey,” “Blow the Whistle,” “The Ghetto,” “I’m a Player” and many more in his career spanning over 30 years.

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