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Last updated on December 24, 2024.

Todd Anthony Shaw, better known by the stage name Too Short, is an American rapper and record producer. He became famous in the West Coast hip hop scene in the late 1980s, with lyrics often based on pimping and promiscuity, but also drug culture and street survival; respectively exemplified in his most popular songs "Blow the Whistle" and "The Ghetto".

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We can all admit this - women do it better when it comes to planning and shot calling, running households, raising kids.

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I grew up in L.A., I moved to Oakland when I was 14.

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I think hip-hop brought it on itself. When rappers got a chance to talk to the media, they would get in the interview and say, 'It's all real life.' They play these characters, and then they can't stop playing the character when they're not working.

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Gettin' It' is another song that means a lot to me because I got to work with George Clinton who's always been my musical hero.

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People who really know me say it's funny I'm Too Short.

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If you had no Eazy-E, you got no N.W.A., no Dr. Dre, no Ice Cube, no Tupac Death Row years... no Bone Thugs. No Aftermath, no 50 Cent, no Eminem - the way we know them. The branch that is called Eazy-E on the Hip Hop tree is massive.

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Eazy-E was the person to take me on my first tour, and there was nobody telling him to do it.

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Most songs are not true. They're just to be entertaining.

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I've got a core audience, so regardless of what I put out, I can sell 100,000 records on an independent.

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I really do respect and appreciate all the Bay Area artists and all the love they always give me.

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I definitely don't wanna be in a fight with Nancy Grace. She look like she might can throw them thangs.

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Oakland had a lot of pride attached to the Panthers. A lot of people were connected to it in some kind of way and a lot of people who weren't Panthers supported the Panthers. You'd see Huey P. Newton around, and people would be like, 'That's Huey right there.'

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I'll go in the studio and hear a track that I don't like, and they're trying to pay me to rap over it. But I'll tell them I just can't do it. And when they ask why, I say, 'Because then somebody's gonna hear it... damn, find another track.'

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I think the whole world is one big misogynist. Even a lot of women are.

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Well, I was doing platinum albums back-to-back with Jive when they were the hottest hip-hop label. There was a time when Jive made a lot more money than Def Jam. They had KRS-One, Too $hort, E-40, Mystikal, UGK and Keith Murray. They had Will Smith when he was still the Fresh Prince.

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When I'm on the microphone and I'm recording, or onstage, or shooting a video, I'm doing my job. When I'm not, I'm being myself.

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When I work with Lil Jon, as soon as I come in the studio, he already knows what we're gonna do. He's one of those producers where when you know you've got a session booked with them, you're job is easier because they're probably already going to have an idea or a hook.

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Mac Dre has been around a long time. E-40's been around a long time. JT the Bigga Figga, Rappin 4-Tay. There's been a lot of guys that been around a long time, but they all grew up listening to Too $hort.

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It's not a passion of mine to follow politics. When I deal with political issues in my songs, I just say stuff that's current, only as a songwriter.

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Although I have made my career on dirty raps, I have worked over the years to somewhat balance the content of my music with giving back to the community.

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Hip Hop is very addictive.

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All I can tell you is, all of the good product you got from E-40 with all the good product you got from Too $hort - it's almost impossible for us to make a terrible album together. We're both opinionated, so I damn sure am not co-signing a song that I think is wack.

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I wanna make more songs than anybody, I wanna be the oldest rapper who is active.

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Not even if we were sitting next to each other talking about life would I tell you all of my story. I just don't throw it out there like that.

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This is the biggest misconception about the Bay - people think that we're L.A... Very different stuff. L.A. has its swag.

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While I was young, getting money, a hustler, I was sharp. But I never thought I was too smart to learn something new. Keep your receptors open, and don't get too egotistical to think you know more than everybody else in the room.

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Twenty-two's my lucky number.

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Don't do this ageism thing in Hip Hop. Don't be an OG and tell me these young, rich cats ain't doing it right. Don't tell me that, man.

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As a Raider fan, I'll say we never want the Raiders to ever leave Oakland.

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I've never been competing with rappers about who's the best rapper. I've been making songs that people like.

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I've always looked like I have a sort of bad-boy image as Too Short. People take that for face value. I kind of like that. I like the image. It suits me well.

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I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland.

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If you listen to Too Short over the years, that's me - I'm not hitting every key or every drum or singing every track - but that's me telling everybody what to do. I like to work with creative people. But when it all comes back, and we're mixing down Too Short songs, I'm right there.

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I'm not the one to pat myself on the back or even need somebody else to give me credit, but I listen to a lot of Hip Hop now and I hear the Too $hort influence.

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Oakland has always been my muse.

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If I'm around a bunch of people that's sad, I gotta try to make them laugh or come up with something positive out of the emotion that's making you feel negative. I'm not a negative person. I don't hang around negative people.

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I can't tell you how many times I've turned to Parliament Funkadelic for inspiration and actually just outright and replayed or sampled a song.

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I had eight years of a career before I even saw any fame outside of the Bay. I was famous in the Bay for eight years before that.

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In my opinion, the Bay is a trendsetting area.

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That song, 'Couldn't Be A Better Player,' was a major turning point in my life.

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I don't see a problem with looking at women as beautiful objects. I'm an artist. I don't know how to paint, but I know how to make music, and women are art.

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I don't know what they had against collabos. I have no idea, but I look back on it and a lot of Jive artists have really never collaborated with each other.

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I don't think I've ever been just like, happy with life. I live life as a realist.

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There have been numerous times when my career was supposed to be over because of mathematics, you know, age and numbers,' he says. 'How many times can you go platinum? How many times can you rap about the same subject? How many times can you say, 'Oakland?'

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I was in my teens when Too $hort was getting popular in the Bay Area on the local scene. So when somebody says to me, 'I grew up on Too $hort,' I say, 'I did too.'

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I don't want to be on any major labels.

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When I finish contributing, I feel like I've left enough to where people are gonna say, 'They got that from Too $hort.' I'm not gonna fade away.

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The number-one thing about the hyphy isn't the sideshow or doing donuts. It's the music.

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When you come to the Bay, we always had this slick talk. E-40 made it real famous. We make up words. We talk real funny. When you hang around a bunch of Bay cats, you're like, 'You guys are funny.' But that's our way.

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I didn't tell anybody anywhere on planet Earth that I support Donald Trump as a candidate.

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You can be in the Bay and sell 10,000 copies of independent records and make 50 grand and that's your job for the year. The shows you do off of that and them 10,000 sales is gonna feed you and your homies.

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The biggest lesson to me is that I got the music from somewhere else - the notes, the music my parents listened to, and the stuff I listened to at every age. All of that inspired the music that I made.

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The formula to my music is that it has to have comedy in it. The vulgarness cannot be digested without a little comedy.

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The Too Short albums are not the autobiography of Todd Shaw.

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New Yorkers never really liked Too $hort.

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Young and dumb is something you gotta go through, but you've got to be a student.

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I love Vegas. I come to Vegas all the time... Check into a hotel for a day or two and enjoy the city.

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I have four favorite places for womanizing: L.A., Miami, New York, and Vegas.

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I don't have a lot of stage antics. I don't try to get attention through my animated body movements.

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I don't think any other hip-hop artist has achieved what I've achieved or the numbers I've sold without commercial radio. MTV and BET have never supported me.

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