Hip-hop icon Too Short is making a major return to the big screen with a role in the upcoming film "Freaky Tales," a drama set in 1980s Oakland. The movie, which opens in theaters on April 4, features ...

Speaking to Okayplayer, Otis Redding’s grandson, Justin Andrews, discusses his role in the Otis Redding Foundation. By the early ‘80s, Short was already famous for rapping. In the early ‘90s, he ...

Spend enough time in Oakland and you're bound to eventually hear the hefty bass line and crisp, biting flow of Too Short's "Blow the Whistle." Whether it's bumping on a dance floor, blasting from ...

The West Coast rapper is an unsung pioneer of some of the genre’s most central elements. Too Short onstage in Washington State in July.Credit...Abdi Ibrahim for The New York Times Supported by By Tom ...

Hip-hop pioneers Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, E-40 and Too Short have nothing left to prove. In Los Angeles, Ice Cube sparked the rise of gangsta rap as part of N.W.A in the late ‘80s, before Snoop Dogg ...