Too $hort breaks down his new ‘DRINK & SMOKE’ album with Lil Jon and its impact on Bay Area Hip Hop. Go deeper with exclusive ...

On this day in Hip-Hop history, Oakland legend Too $hort dropped his fourth studio album, Shorty The Pimp, via Jive Records in 1992. The album, inspired by the 1973 ...

The West Coast came together in a massive way on Tuesday night, April 28, 2026, as Bay Area icons Too $hort and Marshawn Lynch hosted a joint birthday celebration at ...

Fans have come to appreciate Too $hort as more than the narrator of inappropriate freaky tales but also as a calculating businessman and hugely successful rapper ...

One of the privileged treats for art collectors and aficionados during Armory Week is the annual viewing of the Hort Family Collection, a new hanging of a selection of the 3,000-plus artworks owned by ...

Few artists can say they built an empire from the trunk of a car, but this rap legend did exactly that. Long before platinum plaques and mainstream fame, this journey started on the streets of Oakland ...

In 1993, as the hip-hop scene was growing in Atlanta around Freaknik parties and HBCUs, he moved to the Southeast and brought his bold Northern Cali lifestyle. “I get to Atlanta and I show up, I got ...

He could have advanced toward a title when his opponent, Boris Spassky, took ill. Instead, he displayed one of the game’s greatest acts of sportsmanship. By Dylan Loeb McClain In the winter of 1977, ...

LOS ANGELES — At 60, Too $hort might have officially reached senior citizen status. Just don’t expect him to rap like one. The Oakland hip-hop pioneer is still ...