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Well, I was doing platinum albums back-to-back with Jive when they were the hottest hip-hop label. There was a time when Jive made a lot more money than Def Jam. They had KRS-One, Too $hort, E-40, Mystikal, UGK and Keith Murray. They had Will Smith when he was still the Fresh Prince.
- Too Short
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#Hip-Hop
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#Time
#Will
If Too $hort and Freddy B DJed your party, you were gonna get a rap show during the party.
- Too Short
#Get
#Gonna
#Rap
#Show
#Your
Not even if we were sitting next to each other talking about life would I tell you all of my story. I just don't throw it out there like that.
- Too Short
#Life
#Sitting
#Story
#Talking
#Tell
Most songs are not true. They're just to be entertaining.
- Too Short
#Entertaining
#Just
#Most
#Songs
#True
We can all admit this - women do it better when it comes to planning and shot calling, running households, raising kids.
- Too Short
#Better
#Calling
#Planning
#Shot
#Women
When I'm on the microphone and I'm recording, or onstage, or shooting a video, I'm doing my job. When I'm not, I'm being myself.
- Too Short
#Being Myself
#Being
#Doing
#Job
#Myself
Mac Dre has been around a long time. E-40's been around a long time. JT the Bigga Figga, Rappin 4-Tay. There's been a lot of guys that been around a long time, but they all grew up listening to Too $hort.
- Too Short
#Listening
#Long Time
#Long
#Time
#Up
I love Vegas. I come to Vegas all the time... Check into a hotel for a day or two and enjoy the city.
- Too Short
#City
#Day
#Hotel
#Love
#Time
I think hip-hop brought it on itself. When rappers got a chance to talk to the media, they would get in the interview and say, 'It's all real life.' They play these characters, and then they can't stop playing the character when they're not working.
- Too Short
#Chance
#Character
#Hip-Hop
#Life
#Media
When you come to the Bay, we always had this slick talk. E-40 made it real famous. We make up words. We talk real funny. When you hang around a bunch of Bay cats, you're like, 'You guys are funny.' But that's our way.
- Too Short
#Famous
#Funny
#Real
#Way
#Words
I've always looked like I have a sort of bad-boy image as Too Short. People take that for face value. I kind of like that. I like the image. It suits me well.
- Too Short
#Face
#Me
#People
#Short
#Value
Don't do this ageism thing in Hip Hop. Don't be an OG and tell me these young, rich cats ain't doing it right. Don't tell me that, man.
- Too Short
#Doing
#Man
#Me
#Rich
#Young
I didn't tell anybody anywhere on planet Earth that I support Donald Trump as a candidate.
- Too Short
#Candidate
#Earth
#Planet
#Support
#Tell
If you listen to Too Short over the years, that's me - I'm not hitting every key or every drum or singing every track - but that's me telling everybody what to do. I like to work with creative people. But when it all comes back, and we're mixing down Too Short songs, I'm right there.
- Too Short
#Back
#Me
#People
#Singing
#Work
I grew up in L.A., I moved to Oakland when I was 14.
- Too Short
#Grew
#Moved
#Oakland
#Up
Twenty-two's my lucky number.
- Too Short
#Lucky
#Number
#Twenty-Two
When I work with Lil Jon, as soon as I come in the studio, he already knows what we're gonna do. He's one of those producers where when you know you've got a session booked with them, you're job is easier because they're probably already going to have an idea or a hook.
- Too Short
#He
#Job
#Know
#Studio
#Work
It's not a passion of mine to follow politics. When I deal with political issues in my songs, I just say stuff that's current, only as a songwriter.
- Too Short
#Follow
#Passion
#Political
#Politics
The Too Short albums are not the autobiography of Todd Shaw.
- Too Short
#Albums
#Autobiography
#Short
#Todd
#Too
My engineer on the 'Life is Too $hort' album was Al Eaton. Al Eaton had a studio called One Little Indian Studios, and he was a pretty good guitar player. He would suggest certain songs. Al was the force behind 'Life is Too $hort' and definitely the force behind songs like 'The Ghetto.'
- Too Short
#Behind
#Ghetto
#Good
#Guitar
#Life
While I was young, getting money, a hustler, I was sharp. But I never thought I was too smart to learn something new. Keep your receptors open, and don't get too egotistical to think you know more than everybody else in the room.
- Too Short
#Know
#Money
#New
#Smart
#Young
As a Raider fan, I'll say we never want the Raiders to ever leave Oakland.
- Too Short
#Fan
#Leave
#Never
#Say
#Want
Everything in New York ain't always what it seems.
- Too Short
#Always
#Everything
#New York
#New
#Seems
The formula to my music is that it has to have comedy in it. The vulgarness cannot be digested without a little comedy.
- Too Short
#Cannot
#Comedy
#Little
#Music
#Without
When I finish contributing, I feel like I've left enough to where people are gonna say, 'They got that from Too $hort.' I'm not gonna fade away.
- Too Short
#Enough
#Feel
#Finish
#People
#Say
I'm not the one to pat myself on the back or even need somebody else to give me credit, but I listen to a lot of Hip Hop now and I hear the Too $hort influence.
- Too Short
#Back
#Credit
#Influence
#Me
#Myself
I wanna make more songs than anybody, I wanna be the oldest rapper who is active.
- Too Short
#Active
#Make
#More
#Wanna
#Who
Oakland has always been my muse.
- Too Short
#Always
#Been
#Muse
#Oakland
I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland.
- Too Short
#Artist
#Love
#Painting
#Pictures
#Would
I don't have a lot of stage antics. I don't try to get attention through my animated body movements.
- Too Short
#Attention
#Body
#Stage
#Through
#Try
People who really know me say it's funny I'm Too Short.
- Too Short
#Funny
#Know
#Me
#People
#Short
I definitely don't wanna be in a fight with Nancy Grace. She look like she might can throw them thangs.
- Too Short
#Fight
#Grace
#Like
#Look
#She
I can't tell you how many times I've turned to Parliament Funkadelic for inspiration and actually just outright and replayed or sampled a song.
- Too Short
#How
#Inspiration
#Parliament
#Song
#Tell
Hip Hop is very addictive.
- Too Short
#Addictive
#Hip
#Hop
#Very
Gettin' It' is another song that means a lot to me because I got to work with George Clinton who's always been my musical hero.
- Too Short
#Always
#Hero
#Me
#Song
#Work
If you had no Eazy-E, you got no N.W.A., no Dr. Dre, no Ice Cube, no Tupac Death Row years... no Bone Thugs. No Aftermath, no 50 Cent, no Eminem - the way we know them. The branch that is called Eazy-E on the Hip Hop tree is massive.
- Too Short
#Bone
#Death
#Know
#Tree
#Way
If I'm around a bunch of people that's sad, I gotta try to make them laugh or come up with something positive out of the emotion that's making you feel negative. I'm not a negative person. I don't hang around negative people.
- Too Short
#Laugh
#Negative
#People
#Person
#Positive
#Sad
I had eight years of a career before I even saw any fame outside of the Bay. I was famous in the Bay for eight years before that.
- Too Short
#Before
#Career
#Fame
#Famous
#Outside
Eazy-E was the person to take me on my first tour, and there was nobody telling him to do it.
- Too Short
#First
#Me
#Nobody
#Person
#Take
I make songs all the time, I make 'em really fast, and I really felt when I made 'Don't Stop Rappin' in '85 that I could do this forever.
- Too Short
#Fast
#Forever
#Make
#Stop
#Time
New Yorkers never really liked Too $hort.
- Too Short
#Liked
#Never
#New
#Really
#Too
I've never been competing with rappers about who's the best rapper. I've been making songs that people like.
- Too Short
#About
#Best
#Like
#Never
#People
I really do respect and appreciate all the Bay Area artists and all the love they always give me.
- Too Short
#Always
#Give Me
#Love
#Me
#Respect
I'll go in the studio and hear a track that I don't like, and they're trying to pay me to rap over it. But I'll tell them I just can't do it. And when they ask why, I say, 'Because then somebody's gonna hear it... damn, find another track.'
- Too Short
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#Go
#Me
#Trying
#Why
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