Too Short

My engineer on the 'Life is Too $hort' album was Al Eaton. Al Eaton had a studio called One Little Indian Studios,…

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Jive never saw any value in me as a long-term artist. Even as I was doing it they were like, 'You're not…

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I don't see a problem with looking at women as beautiful objects. I'm an artist. I don't know how to paint, but…

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You have to be accountable for what you do.

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I don't want to be on any major labels.

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I think the whole world is one big misogynist. Even a lot of women are.

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I think the first big chance I ever got was I was one of the opening acts for UTFO and 'Roxanne Roxanne,'…

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The only thing that private school did for me was give me this foundation where, if I choose to, I can speak…

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I'm a businessman. Making records is my business. I have a big operation and I employ a lot of people.

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I've been taking it in stride, man. I'm not the kind of person who goes around bragging to everybody, 'I did a…

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Most songs are not true. They're just to be entertaining.

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I grew up in L.A., I moved to Oakland when I was 14.

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Hip-Hop is a voice.

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I did not dream of being an entertainer in the sense of being the one out front. I dreamed of being in…

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If Too $hort and Freddy B DJed your party, you were gonna get a rap show during the party.

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I've always looked like I have a sort of bad-boy image as Too Short. People take that for face value. I kind…

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Twenty-two's my lucky number.

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I think hip-hop brought it on itself. When rappers got a chance to talk to the media, they would get in the…

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Oakland has always been my muse.

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If you listen to Too Short over the years, that's me - I'm not hitting every key or every drum or singing…

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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…

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Young and dumb is something you gotta go through, but you've got to be a student.

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If I'm around a bunch of people that's sad, I gotta try to make them laugh or come up with something positive…

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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…

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Eazy-E was the person to take me on my first tour, and there was nobody telling him to do it.

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