TOO SHORT Life Is… Too Short LP NEW VINYL 8th Records reissue
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TOO SHORT Life Is… Too Short / LP NEW VINYL / 8th Records 2017
A pioneer of hardcore rap music, one can't 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 Don't Stop Rappin' 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 $hort's works were largely a cult phenomenon during the early years of his career, but 1988's Life Is... 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&B singles was the name of the game, Too $hort instead opted to take established riffs and hooks from from those singles and re-create them with studio musicians and drum machines. The album cemented Too $hort's status among MC's, 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.
Side AAA
A1 Life Is...Too Short 4:34
A2 Rhymes 4:17
A3 I Ain't Trippin' 6:41
A4 Nobody Does It Better 6:15
Side XXX
B1 Don't Fight The Feelin' 8:18
B2 CussWords 7:45
B3 City Of Dope 5:32
B4 Pimp The Ho 5:52
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