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9 unusual facts about Too Short


Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies

I mean, how many people ask Too Short about how the records instead of asking about the more sensational parts of his personality?

Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts

Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts influenced contemporary artists such as Too Short and Ol' Dirty Bastard.

G-funk

Although G-funk originated in Los Angeles, the sub-genre drew a large amount of influence from the earlier Bay Area-based sound known as Mobb music of the mid- to late 1980s, pioneered by Oakland rappers like Too Short.

Give It 2 You

The song's promotional music video featured appearances from Jermaine Dupri, MC Lyte, The Notorious B.I.G., Sean "Puffy" Combs, Keith Murray, Too Short, T-Boz and Bill Bellamy, among others.

Life Is Too Short

Life's Too Short, a BBC2 television observational comedy sitcom series;

PatchWerk Recording Studios

The walls in the hallways are decorated in Gold and Platinum plaques from the likes of Ras Kass, OutKast, Goodie Mob, TLC, 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Missy Elliott, Beyoncé, Madonna, Too $hort, Lil Jon, Ludacris, T.I., Young Jeezy, Birdman and Lil Wayne, to name a few.

Too Short

In the early 1980s, Shaw produced custom songs (called "special requests") for people with his high school friend, Freddy B. In 1983, 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.

Too Short voiced the main character Fillyacup on the animated sitcom The Siccness Network from 2000-2001.

Uptown Anthem

As well as NBN the soundtrack included songs from numerous other well-known hip-hop artists such as Eric B. & Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Too Short, Teddy Riley, EPMD, Salt-N-Pepa, and Cypress Hill.


GhettoPhysics

The film includes interviews with notable entertainers and thinkers such as Dr. Cornel West, Ice-T, Norman Lear, Cynthia McKinney, KRS-One, John Perkins (author), Byron Katie, Too Short, and William Arntz.

Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: The Player Years, 1983–1988

1: The Player Years, 1983–1988 is a double disc that contains some of the contents of Too Short's first CDs ever, recorded locally in the Bay Area back around 1983-1986.

Stalag version

The rhythm also influenced early hip-hop, and can be discerned on Public Enemy's hit 'Don't Believe the Hype' as well as on Too Short's Blowjob Betty.


see also

A Life too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke

A Life too Short:The Tragdey of Robert Enke is a 2012 biography by Ronald Reng about Hannover 96 captain and Germany goalie Robert Enke, who committed suicide on 10 November 2009.

Black Iberian pig

The bulk of the acorn harvest comes from the holm oak (from November to February), but the season would be too short without the earlier harvests of Spanish oak and gall oak and the late cork oak season, which, between them, stretch the acorn-production period from September almost to April.

Camp Toccoa

Initially, Camp Toccoa used the Toccoa municipal airport for jump training, but following a transport accident, it was abandoned for having too short a runway for safe C-39 and C-47 operations.

Donald Hall

In addition to poetry, he has also written several collections of essays (among them Life Work and String Too Short to be Saved), children's books (notably Ox-Cart Man, which won the Caldecott Medal), and a number of plays.

Richard John Taylor

In June 2013, he shot an independent short film Life's Too Short on location in New York featuring legendary movie icon Lloyd Kaufman as well as his daughter, Charlotte.

The D'oh-cial Network

This is followed by a short entitled "A Simpsons 'Show's Too Short' Story", animated in the dark, grim style of American artist Edward Gorey.

The EP

Extended play, a musical recording that contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album

Webbing stretcher

Plier-type stretchers are sometimes used, particularly with leather strapping that is too short to allow a loop through a traditional stretcher.