Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28, 1966), better known by the stage nameToo Short (stylized as Too $hort), is an American rapper, producer, and actor. He is best known for his hit songs like "The Ghetto" and "Blow the Whistle". Too Short is one of the very few musicians to have been able to collaborate with both 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. during the height of their careers.
Too Short is credited as being one of the pioneer rappers of West Coast hip hop. Many of his rap lyrics are about pimping, drug use & sexual antics.
Career
Shaw was born and grew up in South Central Los Angeles, California. In the early 1980s, Shaw and his family moved to Oakland, California. He was a drummer in the band at Fremont High School in Oakland. In the mid 1980s, Shaw produced custom songs (called "special requests") for people with his high school friend, Freddy B. In 1985, Too Short had his first release, Don't Stop Rappin' which, along with the following three releases, featured raw, simple drum beats from a LinnDrum drum machine. 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 nothing but a word to me.
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Charlie Major (born December 31, 1954) is a Canadian country music artist. He has recorded seven studio albums and released more than twenty singles.
Musical career
Born in Aylmer, Quebec, Charlie Major knew he wanted to be a musician since he was 19 years old. He was blinded in one eye as a result of a pellet gun accident when he was 12. He spent 15 years traveling as far as Spain writing songs and putting country bands together, which eventually led to a record deal with Arista Records. Major released his debut album in Canada, The Other Side, in 1993. All six singles released from the album went to No.1 on the RPM Country chart.
Through the 1990s, he won the Juno Award as Country Male Vocalist of the Year for two years in a row (Juno Awards in 1994 and 1995). Five major Canadian Country Music Awards followed, along with songwriting honours from SOCAN, and a BMI Award in 1993 for "Backroads", recorded by Ricky Van Shelton in 1991 on his Backroads album, as the “Most Performed Song in America.” In 2006 he made an appearance on the television show "Holmes on Homes."
Life's Too Short is a British sitcom mockumentary created and written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, from an idea by Warwick Davis, about "the life of a showbiz dwarf". Davis plays a fictionalised version of himself, and both Gervais and Merchant appear in supporting roles as themselves. The show began airing on BBC Two on 10 November 2011. Premium cable channel HBO, which co-produced the series with the BBC, have the US rights and began airing the series on 19 February 2012.
In January 2013, it was announced that Life's Too Short would end later in the year with a special that would bring the series closure. The one-hour special aired on 30 March 2013 in the UK and 5 July 2013 in the US.
Background
The genesis of the show came when Davis worked with Gervais and Merchant in an episode of the second series of Extras, when he co-starred with Daniel Radcliffe. Gervais said that real Warwick is funny and tells great stories and Stephen Merchant commented of Davis that he helped come up with the idea. Gervais and Merchant approached the BBC about developing a show centred on a character based on Davis.
Six Feet Under, an American television drama series created by Alan Ball, premiered on the premium cable network HBO in the United States on June 3, 2001, and ended its original run of five seasons and 63 episodes on August 21, 2005. The series chronicles the Fishers, a family of funeral directors who struggle with relationships and their own personal demons, while trying to maintain a small funeral home. All five seasons are available on DVD in individual box sets and in a collected volume.
Official HD video for “Blow The Whistle” by Too $hort
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Lyrics:
I go on and on
Can't understand how I last so long
I must have super powers
Rap two hundred twenty five thousand hours
Get it calculated do the math
I made a thousand songs that made you move your ass
And for the last three hundred months
I made sixteen albums with me on the front and the bump
Where you get your beats?
I heard ninety three rappers say bitch l...
published: 25 Oct 2009
Gettin' It
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Gettin' It · Too $hort · Parliament Funkadelic
Gettin' It (Album Number Ten)
℗ 1996 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1996-05-20
Associated Performer: Too $hort feat. Parliament Funkadelic
Mixing Engineer, Producer: Shorty B
Composer, Lyricist: George Clinton Jr.
Composer, Lyricist: G.J. Cooper
Composer, Lyricist: Todd Shaw
Composer, Lyricist: Belita Woods
Mixing Engineer: Ant Banks
Composer, Lyricist: William Collins
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published: 09 Apr 2017
TOO SHORT - I'M A PLAYER
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published: 14 Jul 2010
Too $hort - Ain't My Girlfriend ft. Ty Dolla $ign, Jeremih, French Montana, Joyner Lucas
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Official music video by Too $hort feat. Ty Dolla $ign, Jeremih, French Montana & Joyner Lucas performing Ain't My Girlfriend. 2018 Dangerous Music / EMPIRE
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published: 23 Aug 2018
Too $hort - The Ghetto (Official Video)
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Lyrics:
Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouth
Old school buddies not doing it right
Every day it's the same and it's the same every night
I wouldn't shoot you, bro, but I'd shoot that fool
If he played me close and tried to test my cool
#TooShort #Theghetto #shortdogsinthehou...
published: 24 Mar 2011
Just Another Day
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Just Another Day · Too $hort
Get In Where You Fit In
℗ 1993 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1993-10-26
Producer: QD III
Engineer: Rob Chiarelli
Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Ant Banks
Composer, Lyricist: Quincy D. Jones
Composer, Lyricist, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Todd Shaw
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published: 25 Jan 2017
Too $hort - I'm A Player (Official Video)
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Lyrics:
And we sure do like to play
I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play
And we sure do like to play
I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play
#TooShort #ImAPlayer #OfficialVideo
published: 23 Mar 2011
Don't Fight the Feelin'
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Don't Fight the Feelin' · Too $hort · Rappin' 4-Tay
Life Is... Too $hort
℗ 1988 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1989-01-31
Associated Performer: Too $hort ft. Rappin' 4-Tay
Composer, Lyricist: Todd Shaw
Mixing Engineer, Producer: Todd Shaw
Co- Producer: R. Austin
Composer, Lyricist: T. Goins
Co- Producer: Ted Bohanon
Mixing Engineer: Al Eaton
Composer, Lyricist: J. Brown
Composer, Lyricist: Anthony Forté
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Official HD video for “Blow The Whistle” by Too $hort
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Official HD video for “Blow The Whistle” by Too $hort
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Lyrics:
I go on and on
Can't understand how I last so long
I must have super powers
Rap two hundred twenty five thousand hours
Get it calculated do the math
I made a thousand songs that made you move your ass
And for the last three hundred months
I made sixteen albums with me on the front and the bump
Where you get your beats?
I heard ninety three rappers say bitch like me
Two singers and ten comedians
And I'm still gon' yell it every time you see me in
What's my favorite word?
Bitch!
Why they gotta say it like $hort?
Bitch!
You know they can't play on my court
Can't hang with the big dogs
Stay on the porch
Blow the whistle [x4]
#TooShort #BlowTheWhistle #HD #Remastered #HipHop
Official HD video for “Blow The Whistle” by Too $hort
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Lyrics:
I go on and on
Can't understand how I last so long
I must have super powers
Rap two hundred twenty five thousand hours
Get it calculated do the math
I made a thousand songs that made you move your ass
And for the last three hundred months
I made sixteen albums with me on the front and the bump
Where you get your beats?
I heard ninety three rappers say bitch like me
Two singers and ten comedians
And I'm still gon' yell it every time you see me in
What's my favorite word?
Bitch!
Why they gotta say it like $hort?
Bitch!
You know they can't play on my court
Can't hang with the big dogs
Stay on the porch
Blow the whistle [x4]
#TooShort #BlowTheWhistle #HD #Remastered #HipHop
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Gettin' It · Too $hort · Parliament Funkadelic
Gettin' It (Album Number Ten)
℗ 1996 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1996-05-20
...
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Gettin' It · Too $hort · Parliament Funkadelic
Gettin' It (Album Number Ten)
℗ 1996 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1996-05-20
Associated Performer: Too $hort feat. Parliament Funkadelic
Mixing Engineer, Producer: Shorty B
Composer, Lyricist: George Clinton Jr.
Composer, Lyricist: G.J. Cooper
Composer, Lyricist: Todd Shaw
Composer, Lyricist: Belita Woods
Mixing Engineer: Ant Banks
Composer, Lyricist: William Collins
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Gettin' It · Too $hort · Parliament Funkadelic
Gettin' It (Album Number Ten)
℗ 1996 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1996-05-20
Associated Performer: Too $hort feat. Parliament Funkadelic
Mixing Engineer, Producer: Shorty B
Composer, Lyricist: George Clinton Jr.
Composer, Lyricist: G.J. Cooper
Composer, Lyricist: Todd Shaw
Composer, Lyricist: Belita Woods
Mixing Engineer: Ant Banks
Composer, Lyricist: William Collins
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From the project, The Pimp Tape.
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Official music video by Too $hort feat. Ty Dolla $ign, Jeremih, French Montana & Joy...
From the project, The Pimp Tape.
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Official music video by Too $hort feat. Ty Dolla $ign, Jeremih, French Montana & Joyner Lucas performing Ain't My Girlfriend. 2018 Dangerous Music / EMPIRE
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From the project, The Pimp Tape.
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Official music video by Too $hort feat. Ty Dolla $ign, Jeremih, French Montana & Joyner Lucas performing Ain't My Girlfriend. 2018 Dangerous Music / EMPIRE
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Official Video for “The Ghetto” by Too $hort
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Official Video for “The Ghetto” by Too $hort
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Lyrics:
Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouth
Old school buddies not doing it right
Every day it's the same and it's the same every night
I wouldn't shoot you, bro, but I'd shoot that fool
If he played me close and tried to test my cool
#TooShort #Theghetto #shortdogsinthehouse #HipHop #Rap
Official Video for “The Ghetto” by Too $hort
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Ask your voice device to play Too $hort!
Lyrics:
Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouth
Old school buddies not doing it right
Every day it's the same and it's the same every night
I wouldn't shoot you, bro, but I'd shoot that fool
If he played me close and tried to test my cool
#TooShort #Theghetto #shortdogsinthehouse #HipHop #Rap
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Just Another Day · Too $hort
Get In Where You Fit In
℗ 1993 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1993-10-26
Producer: QD III
Engine...
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Just Another Day · Too $hort
Get In Where You Fit In
℗ 1993 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1993-10-26
Producer: QD III
Engineer: Rob Chiarelli
Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Ant Banks
Composer, Lyricist: Quincy D. Jones
Composer, Lyricist, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Todd Shaw
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Just Another Day · Too $hort
Get In Where You Fit In
℗ 1993 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1993-10-26
Producer: QD III
Engineer: Rob Chiarelli
Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Ant Banks
Composer, Lyricist: Quincy D. Jones
Composer, Lyricist, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Todd Shaw
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Official Video for "I'm A Player" by Too $hort
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Official Video for "I'm A Player" by Too $hort
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Lyrics:
And we sure do like to play
I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play
And we sure do like to play
I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play
#TooShort #ImAPlayer #OfficialVideo
Official Video for "I'm A Player" by Too $hort
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Lyrics:
And we sure do like to play
I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play
And we sure do like to play
I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play
#TooShort #ImAPlayer #OfficialVideo
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Don't Fight the Feelin' · Too $hort · Rappin' 4-Tay
Life Is... Too $hort
℗ 1988 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1989-01-31
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Don't Fight the Feelin' · Too $hort · Rappin' 4-Tay
Life Is... Too $hort
℗ 1988 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1989-01-31
Associated Performer: Too $hort ft. Rappin' 4-Tay
Composer, Lyricist: Todd Shaw
Mixing Engineer, Producer: Todd Shaw
Co- Producer: R. Austin
Composer, Lyricist: T. Goins
Co- Producer: Ted Bohanon
Mixing Engineer: Al Eaton
Composer, Lyricist: J. Brown
Composer, Lyricist: Anthony Forté
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Don't Fight the Feelin' · Too $hort · Rappin' 4-Tay
Life Is... Too $hort
℗ 1988 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1989-01-31
Associated Performer: Too $hort ft. Rappin' 4-Tay
Composer, Lyricist: Todd Shaw
Mixing Engineer, Producer: Todd Shaw
Co- Producer: R. Austin
Composer, Lyricist: T. Goins
Co- Producer: Ted Bohanon
Mixing Engineer: Al Eaton
Composer, Lyricist: J. Brown
Composer, Lyricist: Anthony Forté
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Official HD video for “Blow The Whistle” by Too $hort
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Lyrics:
I go on and on
Can't understand how I last so long
I must have super powers
Rap two hundred twenty five thousand hours
Get it calculated do the math
I made a thousand songs that made you move your ass
And for the last three hundred months
I made sixteen albums with me on the front and the bump
Where you get your beats?
I heard ninety three rappers say bitch like me
Two singers and ten comedians
And I'm still gon' yell it every time you see me in
What's my favorite word?
Bitch!
Why they gotta say it like $hort?
Bitch!
You know they can't play on my court
Can't hang with the big dogs
Stay on the porch
Blow the whistle [x4]
#TooShort #BlowTheWhistle #HD #Remastered #HipHop
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Gettin' It · Too $hort · Parliament Funkadelic
Gettin' It (Album Number Ten)
℗ 1996 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1996-05-20
Associated Performer: Too $hort feat. Parliament Funkadelic
Mixing Engineer, Producer: Shorty B
Composer, Lyricist: George Clinton Jr.
Composer, Lyricist: G.J. Cooper
Composer, Lyricist: Todd Shaw
Composer, Lyricist: Belita Woods
Mixing Engineer: Ant Banks
Composer, Lyricist: William Collins
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From the project, The Pimp Tape.
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Official music video by Too $hort feat. Ty Dolla $ign, Jeremih, French Montana & Joyner Lucas performing Ain't My Girlfriend. 2018 Dangerous Music / EMPIRE
http://vevo.ly/KL3qlY
Official Video for “The Ghetto” by Too $hort
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Ask your voice device to play Too $hort!
Lyrics:
Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouth
Old school buddies not doing it right
Every day it's the same and it's the same every night
I wouldn't shoot you, bro, but I'd shoot that fool
If he played me close and tried to test my cool
#TooShort #Theghetto #shortdogsinthehouse #HipHop #Rap
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Just Another Day · Too $hort
Get In Where You Fit In
℗ 1993 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1993-10-26
Producer: QD III
Engineer: Rob Chiarelli
Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Ant Banks
Composer, Lyricist: Quincy D. Jones
Composer, Lyricist, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Todd Shaw
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Official Video for "I'm A Player" by Too $hort
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Lyrics:
And we sure do like to play
I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play
And we sure do like to play
I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play
#TooShort #ImAPlayer #OfficialVideo
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Don't Fight the Feelin' · Too $hort · Rappin' 4-Tay
Life Is... Too $hort
℗ 1988 Zomba Recording LLC
Released on: 1989-01-31
Associated Performer: Too $hort ft. Rappin' 4-Tay
Composer, Lyricist: Todd Shaw
Mixing Engineer, Producer: Todd Shaw
Co- Producer: R. Austin
Composer, Lyricist: T. Goins
Co- Producer: Ted Bohanon
Mixing Engineer: Al Eaton
Composer, Lyricist: J. Brown
Composer, Lyricist: Anthony Forté
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Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28, 1966), better known by the stage nameToo Short (stylized as Too $hort), is an American rapper, producer, and actor. He is best known for his hit songs like "The Ghetto" and "Blow the Whistle". Too Short is one of the very few musicians to have been able to collaborate with both 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. during the height of their careers.
Too Short is credited as being one of the pioneer rappers of West Coast hip hop. Many of his rap lyrics are about pimping, drug use & sexual antics.
Career
Shaw was born and grew up in South Central Los Angeles, California. In the early 1980s, Shaw and his family moved to Oakland, California. He was a drummer in the band at Fremont High School in Oakland. In the mid 1980s, Shaw produced custom songs (called "special requests") for people with his high school friend, Freddy B. In 1985, Too Short had his first release, Don't Stop Rappin' which, along with the following three releases, featured raw, simple drum beats from a LinnDrum drum machine. 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 nothing but a word to me.
Baby look at me I've been livin' in the dark so long Hard to remember when it was the last time I saw some light I've got a hungry heart Its been starvin' for a love so long Lookin' for someone who can fill this empty space in my life Baby there ain't nothin' but one & only When you're standin' on the side of lonely So would ya take that step? With me, you cross that line tonight And for a little while I could walk on the other side. Baby look at you You've been livin' in the past so long Tryin' to hold onto a dream you know will never come true You've got a hungry heart That's been achin' for a love so long In need of someone who can loose these ties that are holding you Baby there ain't nothin' but one & only When you're standin' on the side of lonely So would ya take that step? With me, you cross that line tonight And for a little while you could walk on the other side Baby there ain't nothin' but one & only When you're standin' on the side of lonely So would ya take that step? With me, you cross that line tonight And for a little while we could walk on the other side For a little while we could walk on the other side, ohh-right