Too $hort Talks Blow the Whistle, Working with Biggie & Tupac and New Album "Sir Too $hort, Vol. 2"

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Too $hort joins us to look back on more than four decades in hip-hop and the stories behind one of the genre’s most enduring careers. He takes us back to Oakland in the ’80s, when he was selling $20 custom raps on cassette to local drug dealers, and explains how his voice and name became famous around the Bay Area before people even knew what he looked like. He also gets into the stories behind songs like “Freaky Tales” and “Blowjob Betty,” his mother’s reaction to his music, the meaning of being a “player,” and why his supposed retirement in 1996 was never quite what it seemed.Now 60 years old and still going strong, he breaks down his place in hip-hop history, from the ’90s East…