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too $hort - short dog’s in the house - get on down - vinyl

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Genre: Hip Hop

1. Short Dog's In The House
2. It's Your Life
3. The Ghetto
4. Short But Funky
5. Dead Or Alive
6. Punk Bitch
7. Ain't Nothin' But A Word To Me (Feat. Ice Cube & Sir Jinx)
8. Hard On The Boulevard
9. Paula & Janet
10. Rap Like Me

“In my category, I’m the one and only,” proclaimed Oakland legend Too $hort on his 1990 single “Short But Funky.” Few disagreed then, and even fewer would do so decades later.

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First appearing in the mid-1980s slinging homemade tapes out
of his car trunk, the man born Todd Shaw has always stayed true
to himself. And although he is known more for the dirty side of
his rap game, on “Short But Funky” he also reminds listeners of
an important fact: “There’s a serious side to everything I say.”
Short Dog’s In The House was $hort’s sixth album, and his
second for the Jive label. By the time it hit, he was a West Coast
legend, but his rep was growing Eastwards, as the rest of the
country started opening its ears to new sounds. Peaking at #20
on the national Billboard 200 chart, the album was exactly what
his dedicated fans expected – funky, 70s-drenched beats made
for cars on the boulevard; and no-nonsense lyrics that made
more sense and dropped more knowledge than he was ever
given credit for. For examples of his conscious side, look no
further than the P-Funk fueled “It’s Your Life” or the album’s lead
single, “The Ghetto.”

The album’s second single “Short But Funky” landed somewhere
in the middle of $hort and Todd Shaw, talking about
where he was at as the new decade broke, and making it clear
that he wasn’t going anywhere. His mortality was particularly on
his mind after rumors had surfaced the year before that he had
died in a crackhouse. He speaks directly to this crazy episode on
“Dead Or Alive.”

And although it’s mostly a solo affair, he brings in some heavy
artillery – and a lot of not-for-the-kids profanity – on “Ain’t
Nothin’ But A Word To Me,” featuring none other than Ice Cube