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1.1 Life Is... Too Short1.2 Rhymes1.3 I Ain't Trippin'1.4 Nobody Does It Better1.5 Oakland1.6 Don't Fight the Feelin'1.7 Cusswords1.8 City of Dope1.9 Pimp the Ho1.10 Bonus Track 1 |
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| Number of discs: |
1 |
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| Description: | A pioneer of hardcore rap music, one cant talk about
the West Coast hip-hop scene without mentioning
Todd Anthony Shaw, better known by the stage name
Too $hort. A veteran of the genre, Too $hort’s
discography is one filled with tracks about pimping,
drug use, promiscuity, and unapologetically explicit
language. (His 1985 record Don't Stop Rappin is
notoriously one of the first to use the word bitch on a
track.) He's released nearly 20 albums over the
course of his 35-year career and collaborated with
artists as varied as Jay-Z, UGK, 50 Cent, Lil Jon, he's
even been one of the few musicians to work with both
2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G., in the middle of their
infamous feud.
Too $horts works were largely a cult phenomenon
during the early years of his career, but 1988’s Life Is...
broke him into a mainstream audience, and gave him
his most critically acclaimed release. (Not to mention
his highest-selling to date.) The album stood out in its
field, at a time when re-sampling old-school funk and
R&B singles was the name of the game, Too $hort
instead opted to take established riffs and hooks from
those singles and re-create them with studio
musicians and drum machines. The album cemented
Too $horts status among MCs, and the title track itself
would even be re-sampled in tracks by rappers UGK,
hip-hop-influenced rock group Sublime, and even Too
$hort himself on later singles. - First pressing which had the Dangerous Music "playboy bunny" logo on rear + inner artwork, and disc label side.
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| Producer: |
Al Eaton, Todd Shaw |
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| No. of tracks: |
10 |
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| Manufacturer No.: |
11492J |
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