Okay, back. Pretty solid video overall. I'd just like to throw out a few things (sorry, I'm a super geek) before ever hooking up with Jerry and Dean Hodges/75 Girls who put out his first 3 tapes, Short was already making home recordings and selling those in the streets. He was also doing, what I think of as one of the most ingenious things at the time...the "special request" tapes. He would get paid by a pretty well off drug dealer, or just someone with bread, and he'd make a song about that individual. I doubt many are still around, but there are 1 or 2 I know I've heard of Short and Freddy B pre-1983 rhymes on youtube. These weren't proper songs, like a lot of us at the time, we'd record over established instrumentals. The proper first rap record out of Oakland was actually back 1980 by Motorcycle Mike and funded by (then) heroin kingpin Mickey Mo. But that was really more like the late 70s hippity-hop Sugar Hill style and really a novelty. Short was clearly more in-tune with the streets and performing at house parties....and probably why he was able to transition into a major artist. I'd also like to add, Short has always had a few, if not conscious or political records...at least records that leaned more in that direction. The Ghetto probably being his most famous. But even on Born To Mack he had "You Know What I Mean" and Life Is on this album. I think that part gets left out of his legacy. Last, Ted Bohannon (aka Joe The Boss) was the money and muscle, not really a producer. You can hear Too Short rap about him on the song That's Why on the Getting It album....talking about their falling out. Okay, enough geeking out for today 😂

Stumbled on to this. Just wanted to say, as a kid in Oakland, it's difficult to overstate just how monumental this album was for me. I'd been listening to Short since 1985 (4th Grade) and I still didn't know what he looked like before the video for LifeIs....This album, even more than Born To Mack was his introduction to the world...but he was already a giant to us. I remember "borrowing" my uncles Freaky Tales white tape (on 75 Girls, before JIVE re-released it in 87) with the instrumental on one side. I wore that tape out 😂 And being born in 1976, I was raised on NY hip hop. I worshipped Run DMC, Whodini and the Fat Boys. Later LL, T La Rock, Shan, Rakim and KRS would dominate my boom box, and even later still NWA, Rodney O and Joe Cooley from the west coast, but I always had a space for Short. I haven't listened to the review of the actual music yet, so I look forward to hearing your perspective...

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Facts, back then it was common to hear a rappers music long before you seen them. I'm from Louisiana & I remember the first time I seen too $hort & krs1 & nwa after listening to them for a few years lol

Bruh, if u weren't around when this album came out , you just missed out lol. This was one of them albums that was EVERYWHERE. Music isn't played/made like that anymore. Good video though - respect