Too Short never had the skills or technique of L.L. Cool J or Big Daddy Kane, but what the Oakland rapper lacks in technique, he's always more than made up for with...
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A little less impressive than $horty The Pimp, but the grooves (some live) again gave Too $hort an entertaining platform for the usual tales of balling and...
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The spare sound of Born To Mack had gone stale by 1988, but it filled this poor follow-up effort. However, the vivid, vulgar attack on Nancy Reagan on "Cusswords" likely...
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Too Short never had the skills or technique of LL Cool J or Big Daddy Kane, but what the Oakland rapper lacks in technique, he's always more than made up for with...
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Once again, the seductive, multi-dimensional sound of this effort-- courtesy of emerging star Ant Banks--was the story; Too $hort's rhymes held the status...
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Shorty the Pimp was Too Short's seventh album. As one would expect from an entertainer with six albums behind him, Too Short had by now perfected his craft. Though his focus...
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An anti-censorship duet with Ice Cube was this collection's most entertaining cut, but the other attempts at topicality may make one nostalgic for Too $hort's sex...
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With Short Dog's in the House, Oakland's most sexually explicit MC gave his followers more of what he was known for -- X-rated lyrics, a relaxed style of rapping, and...
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With Short Dog's in the House, Oakland's most sexually explicit MC gave his followers more of what he was known for -- X-rated lyrics, a relaxed style of rapping, and...
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Shorty the Pimp was Too Short's seventh album. As one would expect from an entertainer with six albums behind him, Too Short had by now perfected his craft. Though his focus...
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The X-rated rhymes had become interchangeable by this point, but the music here--crafted by a team of hotshot producers, including Ant Banks, and featuring a guest shot...
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Nine years and nine albums later, Oakland's
Too $hort still won't go away. With Cocktails, he's once again defied critics with his slow, libidinous raps and...
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Album number nine from Too Short carries on his tradition of lyrics about the joys of pimping, rapped moderately to groovy, funky, jazzy beats. Delete the raps from Too...
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Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Not lyrically, although Too $hort embraced G-funk here as though he'd invented it. And given the derivative outlook of G-funk...
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With the release of his platinum-plus 10th studio album, 1996's Gettin' It, rap industry veteran Todd Shaw, known to the masses as Too $hort, shocked the world with the...
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TooShort was 33 when Can't Stay Away came out in 1999, and for a rapper, that's old age. Many MCs have seen their fortunes decline considerably by the time they hit 30,...
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Not great music, but the less-vile bits of Too $hort's major label debut may have you laughing in spite of yourself. The bare-bones rhythms now sound dated, but--like...
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By the time Jive Records released Born to Mack, Too Short's major-label debut, the young rapper was already a music industry veteran, having released several albums on the...
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Too Short was 33 when Can't Stay Away came out in 1999, and for a rapper, that's old age. Many MCs have seen their fortunes decline considerably by the time they hit 30,...
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Oakland, Cal-I-Forn-I-A, home to the original Mack Daddy, Todd 'Too Sheezy' Shaw, is about to be right back on the musical map. With his follow-up to his platinum-plus,...
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On the appropriately titled You Nasty, the ever-pimpin' Too Short continues to do what he does best: drop commentary rhymes about relations between powerful men and...
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On the appropriately titled You Nasty, the ever-pimpin' Too Short continues to do what he does best: drop commentary rhymes about relations between powerful men and...
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Over a dozen albums into his career by the time Chase the Cat came out in 2001, Too Short had exhausted his ideas years before. However, just because Short doesn't have...
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Ever since Too Short returned from his brief retirement in 1999 with Can't Stay Away, he's sounded increasingly comfy with letting his supporting cast flavor his albums, and...
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Too $hort continues to cast a long shadow over the pimp-obsessed hip-hop industry, even if he gets little respect for his influence and amazing longevity. In a notoriously...
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For his umpteenth album, Married to the Game, the original player, Too Short, keeps on keeping on, spitting pimp game over well-produced tracks, never breaking a sweat. As...
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Ever since Too Short returned from his brief retirement in 1999 with Can't Stay Away, he's sounded increasingly comfy with letting his supporting cast flavor his albums, and...
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