Todd Anthony Shaw, better known as Too $hort, is a rapper, producer and actor from Oakland, California. He and his family moved up to Oakland from Los Angeles in the early 1980s, and he established himself as an artist selling “special request” custom tapes, leading into his first official album Don’t Stop Rappin' on the independent 75 Girls label.

He got a major label deal with Jive Records, first releasing his 1987 album Born To Mack before going on to release a number of albums and popular singles such as “Gettin' It,” “Shake That Monkey,” “Blow the Whistle,” “The Ghetto,” and “I’m a Player” among others. After five decades in the rap game, Too $hort joined his first group, the supergroup MOUNT WESTMORE with E-40, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg, and they released the albums Bad MF’s and Snoop Cube 40 $hort in 2022.