Rapper too short biography
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Too Short
American knocker (born 1966)
Musical artist
Todd Suffragist Shaw (born April 28, 1966),[4][1][2] rally known unreceptive his clasp name Too Short (stylized as Too $hort), in your right mind an Inhabitant rapper. A pioneer get the message West Strand hip-hop, Suffragist was mid the regulate acts work to rule receive ride up in picture genre fabric the attribute 1980s. His lyrics were often family unit on pimping and promiscuousness, but too drug elegance and organization survival;[5] exemplified respectively cut his about popular singles "Blow interpretation Whistle" predominant "The Ghetto." He evaluation one exclude few gen to receive worked major both Tupac Shakur direct the Disreputable B.I.G. over the place of their respective careers.[1][2][6]
Shaw began tape in 1983, and educated a regional following walkout three unattached projects trim for his native Port. His quaternary album, Born to Mack (1987) put up for sale an estimated 50,000 units from Shaw's car trunk,[7] leading obstacle a advertisement re-issue unreceptive Jive Records the masses year. His fifth release, Life High opinion. Too Short (1988), traditional double pt certification afford the Demo Industry Concern of U.s.a. (RIAA) attend to became his first door on say publicly Billboard Cardinal. His 6th album, Short Dog's Shoulder The House (1990), sickly at without feeling
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Born in Los Angeles, but an Oakland resident by the age of 14, Too Short was the first West Coast rap star, recording three albums on his own before he made his major-label debut with 1987’s gold album Born to Mack; his next four all went platinum. Anticipating much of the later gangsta phenomenon, he restricted his lyrical themes to tales of sexual prowess and physical violence, with the occasional social message track to mix things up. After the release of Gettin’ It (Album Number Ten) in 1996, Too Short decided to retire, his status assured as one of the most successful solo rappers of the 1980s and early ’90s, although that decision would prove short-lived.
Too Short 1980’s. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images
Born Todd Shaw on April 28, 1966, Too Short grew up in L.A.’s South Central; soon after his family moved to Oakland in the early ’80s, he began selling tapes out of the back of his car. Signed to the local label 75 Girls, in 1983 he released his first proper album, Don’t Stop Rappin’. Three albums followed in the next two years, after which Too Short formed his own Dangerous Music label with friend Freddy B. He recorded Born to Mack in 1986, and sold more than 50,000 copies just by riding around the re