In 2011, the rapper was featured on Wiz Khalifa's song " On My Level". In 2009, Too Short recorded for Daz Dillinger, Lil Jon, Soopafly, Scarface and B-Legit. On October 7, 2008, Too Short was honored by VH1 at the fifth annual "Hip-Hop Honors" along with Cypress Hill, De La Soul, Slick Rick and Naughty By Nature. However, his subsequent releases, such as 2007's Get Off the Stage, have not been as successful. 14 on the Billboard 200, much better than each of his previous three releases.
This saw somewhat of a resurgence for Too Short as it peaked at No. įor his next album, Blow the Whistle (2006), Too Short now took advantage of the new hyphy rap music that was emerging out of his original home base in Oakland. These albums all charted fairly well, as they all were in the top 71 of the Billboard 200, but they did not do as well as Too Short's earlier 1990s releases, as none of them reached the top 10. New albums released 2000–2003 were You Nasty (2000), Chase the Cat (2001), What's My Favorite Word? (2002), and Married to the Game (2003). With the 1999 release of Can't Stay Away, Too Short came out of retirement, continuing his sexually explicit, relaxed style of rap. Too Short relocated to Atlanta in 1994, but he did not begin working with a more diverse variety of Southern artists until 2000, when he collaborated with Lil Jon. The album included guest appearances by 8Ball & MJG, Jay-Z, Jermaine Dupri, Sean Combs, E-40, Daz Dillinger, Lil Jon, Soopafly, Scarface and B-Legit. After these appearances, he began working on his eleventh album, Can't Stay Away. He also appeared on TWDY's hit single "Player's Holiday" from their 1999 debut album Derty Werk as well as the Priority Records compilation Nuthin but a Gangsta Party. Being featured on the album introduced him to a wider audience as well, due to his typical style contrasting greatly with the Mafioso theme of the album. album Life After Death he comes in on the third verse after Diddy and Biggie. One of his notable collaborations during this period was on the track "The World Is Filled." on the Notorious B.I.G. Subsequent work was primarily collaborative, including work with Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Scarface, and Pimp C. With his 1989 release, Life Is.Too Short, he began using replayed established funk riffs (rather than samples) with his beats. Dangerous Music became Short Records, and then Up All Nite Records. formed the label Dangerous Music to regionally distribute his music, and with others formed rap group the Dangerous Crew. In the early 1990s, his self-produced beats came from mostly a TR-808 and from mid-to-late 2000s, a TR-909 was used. This was also one of the first hip hop records to use the word " bitch" – a word which became one of the rapper's trademarks and was the focus of subsequent raps such as "Ain't Nothin' but a Word to Me". In 1985, Too Short started his solo career and released his debut album, Don't Stop Rappin' on Oakland record label 75 Girls Records And Tapes which, along with four 12" releases, featured raw, simple drum beats from a LinnDrum drum machine. In the mid-1980s, Shaw along with a high school friend Freddy B, produced custom songs (called "special requests") locally on cassette for people in Oakland and the Bay Area. He was a drummer in the band at Fremont High School in Oakland. In the early 1980s, he and his family moved to Oakland, California. Shaw was born and grew up in Los Angeles, California.
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