Name: Life Is...Too $Hort
Brand: Too Short

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

GET51467LP

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "GET51467LP"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

Colour

blue

Colour details

Blue Swirl Vinyl

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "Blue Swirl Vinyl"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-06-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

664425146714

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "664425146714"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

Artist

Too Short

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

Get On Down

A pioneer of hardcore rap music, one cant talk about the West Coast hip-hop scene without mentioning Todd Anthony Shaw, better known by the stage name Too $hort. A veteran of the genre, Too $hort’s discography is one filled with tracks about pimping, drug use, promiscuity, and unapologetically explicit language. (His 1985 record <i>Don't Stop Rappin</i> is notoriously one of the first to use the word bitch on a track.) He's released nearly 20 albums over the course of his 35-year career and collaborated with artists as varied as Jay-Z, UGK, 50 Cent, Lil Jon, he's even been one of the few musicians to work with both 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G., in the middle of their infamous feud. 

Too $horts works were largely a cult phenomenon during the early years of his career, but 1988’s <i>Life Is... </i>broke him into a mainstream audience, and gave him his most critically acclaimed release. (Not to mention his highest-selling to date.) The album stood out in its field, at a time when re-sampling old-school funk and R&amp;B singles was the name of the game, Too $hort instead opted to take established riffs and hooks from those singles and re-create them with studio musicians and drum machines. The album cemented Too $horts status among MCs, and the title track itself would even be re-sampled in tracks by rappers UGK, hip-hop-influenced rock group Sublime, and even Too $hort himself on later singles.

Life Is...Too $Hort

Music GB