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pp-move-indefInfobox musical artist| name = Too $hort| image = Tooshort (300dpi).jpg| caption = Too $hort at Martin Luther's Rebel Soul Fest at DNA Lounge in San Francisco, July 2008| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Todd Anthony Shaw| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1966|4|28 Los Angeles , California , U.S.}cite web|url= http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Too_Short/Biography/ |title=Too Short Biography |publisher=Starpulse.com |date= |accessdate=November 22, 2011cite web|last=Bush |first=John |url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/too-short-p132295/biography |title=Too Short: Biography |publisher=AllMusic |date= |accessdate=November 22, 2011| origin = East Oakland , Oakland, California , U.S.| genre = Hip hop music|Hip hop | occupation = Rapper , songwriter , actor , Record producer|producer | years_active = 1980-present| label = Jive Records|Jive , Up All Nite | associated_acts = Biz Markie , Slick Rick , Kool Moe Dee , De La Soul , Snoop Dogg , Busta Rhymes , Bushwick Bill , Geto Boys , Ant Banks , MC Breed , Rappin' 4-Tay , Lil' Jon , E-40 , Travis Porter (group)|Travis Porter , Git Fresh , Snow (musician)|Snow , George Clinton (musician)|George Clinton , Wiz Khalifa , Jay-Z , Cee Lo Green , Tupac Shakur|2Pac , The Notorious B.I.G. , 50 Cent , Layzie Bone , Scarface (rapper) , Wu-Tang Clan | website = Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28, 1966), better known by the stage name Too Short (stylized as Too $hort ), is an United States|American rapper , record producer|producer , and actor who started his career at the age of fourteen in Oakland, California .
Career
In the early 1980s, Shaw produced custom songs (called "special requests") for people with his high school friend, Freddy B. In 1985, Too Short had his first release, '' Don't Stop Rappin' which, along with the following three releases, featured raw, simple drum beats from a LinnDrum drum machine. In the early 1990s his beats came from mostly a TR-808 and from mid-to-late 2000s, a TR-909 was used. In 2005, Too Short and Freddie B. formed the label Dangerous Music to regionally distribute his music.Bush, John. Allmusic|class=artist|id=p132295|pure_url=yes Too Short - Biography. Allmusic . Retrieved Sept. 16, 2007. Dangerous Music became Short Records, and then Up All Nite Records. With his 1989 release, Life Is...Too Short , he began used replayed established funk riffs (rather than samples) with his beats.
Subsequent work was primarily collaborative, including work with Tupac Shakur , The Notorious B.I.G. , and Scarface (rapper)|Scarface . One of his noticeable collaborations during this period was on the track "The World Is Filled..." on the classic Notorious B.I.G. album Life After Death ; he comes in on the third verse after Diddy and Biggie. Being featured on the album introduced him to a wider audience as well, due to his typical style contrasting greatly with the Mafioso theme of the album. He also appeared on TWDY's hit single "Player's Holiday" from their 1999 debut album Derty Werk Allmusic|class=song|id=t3234194|pure_url=yes TWDY - "Player's Holiday" - Allmusic . as well as the Priority Records compilation Nuthin but a Gangsta Party .Wilson, MacKenzie. Allmusic|class=album|id=r487431|pure_url=yes "Nuthin' but a Gangsta Party" - Overview. Allmusic After these appearances, he began working on his eleventh album, '' Can't Stay Away ''. The album included guest appearances by 8Ball & MJG , Jay-Z , Jermaine Dupri , Sean Combs , E-40 , Daz Dillinger , Lil' Jon , Soopafly , Scarface (rapper)|Scarface and B-Legit . http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1427330/19990629/puff_daddy.jhtml Too $hort Adds Puffy Track To Upcoming LP. MTV : June 29, 1999. Too Short relocated to Atlanta in 1994, but he did not begin working with a more diverse variety of Southern artists until 2000, when he collaborated with Lil Jon . With the 1999 release of '' Can't Stay Away '', Too Short fully came out of retirement and released a number of new albums within the next few years, most of them taking on a crunk or Dirty South (music)|Dirty South type sound, as he had become involved in the Southern rap scene. However, he didn't totally give up on his trademark funk grooves or sexually explicit style. New albums released 2000-2003 were You Nasty (2000), Chase the Cat (2001), '' What's My Favorite Word? (2002), and Married to the Game '' (2003). These albums all charted fairly well, as they all were in the top 71 of the Billboard 200 , but they didn't do quite as well as Too Short's earlier 1990s releases as none of them reached the top 10.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p132295|pure_url=yes allmusic ((( Too Short > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))
In 2004, his earlier 1990 single "The Ghetto" appeared on popular video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas , playing on West Coast hip hop radio station Radio Los Santos . Given that this was an incredibly popular game at the time, the featuring was acclaimed as a success for Too $hort, both in publicity and in the fame generated by the song.
For his next album, 2006's Blow the Whistle , Too Short now took advantage of the new hyphy rap music that was emerging out of his original home base in Oakland. This saw somewhat of a resurgence for Too Short as it peaked at #14 on the Billboard 200 , much better than each of his previous three releases. However, his subsequent releases, such as 2007's Get Off the Stage , have not been as successful. On October 7, 2008 Too Short was honored by VH1 at the fifth annual " Hip-Hop Honors " along with Cypress Hill , De La Soul , Slick Rick and Naughty By Nature .cite web|url= http://www.vh1savethemusic.com/node/145 |title=Hip Hop Pioneers Honored |publisher=VH1 Save The Music |date=August 12, 2008 |accessdate=November 22, 2011
In 2009, Too Short recorded for Daz Dillinger , Lil' Jon , Soopafly , Scarface (rapper)|Scarface and B-Legit . In 2011, the rapper was featured on Wiz Khalifa 's song " On My Level ". He also collaborated in Snoop Dogg 's 2011 album, Doggumentary in the song "Take U Home".
Up All Nite Records
Redirect|Up All Nite|the DJ Maj song|BoogiRoot|other uses with similar names|Up All Night (disambiguation)Too Short runs his own record label—Up All Nite Records. Artists on the label include The Pack (group)|The Pack ,Montgomery, James; Richards, Yasmine. http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/the_pack/ You Hear It First: The Pack. MTV : October 10, 2006. Dolla Will, Boo Ski, Eyob Fantay and Li'l J & Boi Payton, FX. In addition to creating Up All Nite Records, Too Short has been a mentor at Youth UpRising, a group serving at-risk youths for several years.
Too Short in film
Too Short played the role of Lew-Loc in the film Menace II Society .
Too Short has also worked in the adult film industry, with the 2003 film Get In Where You Fit In.cite web|url= http://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=Get+In+Where+You+Fit+In+1/year=2003/Get_In_Where_You_Fit_In_1.htm |title=Get In Where You Fit In 1 (2003) |publisher=Internet Adult Film Database |date= |accessdate=November 22, 2011
Too Short was an interviewee in American Pimp .
Too Short starred in and performed the music for '' America's Sexiest Girls (film)|America's Sexiest Girls 2003.
Too Short has also appeared in an episode of The Game (U.S. TV series)|The Game .cite web|title=Too $hort|url= http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790001/|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=November 22, 2011
Too Short made a cameo appearance in Jay-z's video for the hit single Big Pimpin'.
Too Short was in VH1's Rock Doc, "Planet Rock"
2012 Controversy
On February 10, 2012, a video by Too Short was posted on XXLMag.com, a hip-hop website published by Dennis Page. In the video, Too Short gives "Fatherly Advice" to late middle-school and high-school boys. Specifically, he offers "a couple of tricks" for "when you start feeling a certain way about the girls." The video caused immediate outcry cite web|title=Too Short: 'I Don't Do Rape...I Love Black Women'|url= http://www.loop21.com/entertainment/too-short-apologizes-xxl-magazine-interview? utm_source=feedburner& utm_medium=feed& utm_campaign=Feed28TheLoop21.com+Comprehensive+Feed%29 and was soon taken down by XXL, which issued an apologycite web|title=XXL Editor-in-Chief Speaks about Too $hort Video|url= http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2012/02/xxl-editor-in-chief-speaks-about-too-hort-video-2/. Too Short also Tweeted statements in response to the criticism.
2012: The History Channel (album)|The History Channel (with E-40 )cite web|last=Ryon |first=Sean |url= http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.13395/title.e-40-and-too-short-to-release-joint-lp |title=E-40 and Too Short to Release Joint LP |publisher=HipHop DX |date=December 19, 2010 |accessdate=November 22, 2011
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External links
myspace|tooshortworld
http://www.riotsound.com/hip-hop/rap/interviews/Too-Short/index.php Too Short interview
http://www.gslaps.com/2010/07/too-short-interview-with-nick-fury-part.html Too Short interview with GSlaps.com
http://globalgrind.com/music/two-xxl-staffers-suspended-over-explicit-too-hort-video-details Two XXL Staffers Suspended Over Explicit Too $hort Video
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