{"id":427847,"date":"2022-04-07T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/rapper-too-hort-talks-tupac-and-mc-hammer-with-jalen-rose\/"},"modified":"2022-04-07T07:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T04:00:03","slug":"rapper-too-hort-talks-tupac-and-mc-hammer-with-jalen-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rapper-too-hort-talks-tupac-and-mc-hammer-with-jalen-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"#Rapper Too $hort talks Tupac and MC Hammer with Jalen Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c4658c9e9c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c4658c9e9c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rapper-too-hort-talks-tupac-and-mc-hammer-with-jalen-rose\/#%E2%80%9CRapper_Too_hort_talks_Tupac_and_MC_Hammer_with_Jalen_Rose%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Rapper Too $hort talks Tupac and MC Hammer with Jalen Rose&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CRapper_Too_hort_talks_Tupac_and_MC_Hammer_with_Jalen_Rose%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Rapper Too $hort talks Tupac and MC Hammer with Jalen Rose&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Jalen-Rose-Final-web-crop.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Jalen Rose\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Jalen-Rose-Final-web-crop.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Jalen-Rose-Final-web-crop.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Jalen-Rose-Final-web-crop.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Jalen-Rose-Final-web-crop.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Jalen-Rose-Final-web-crop.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you were writing the hip-hop dictionary, this Bay Area legend would be responsible for a large portion it. And listening to Todd Shaw, also known as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2018\/10\/29\/too-short-i-dont-necessarily-agree-eazy-e-died-from-aids-complications\/?_ga=2.247235332.1206727846.1649009245-853071939.1565019379\">Too $hort<\/a>, on this \u201cRenaissance Man\u201d episode is like taking in a history lecture on the rap culture and the slang that just rolls off the tongue today.<\/p>\n<p>He came around in the \u201980s, when he planted seeds of inspiration that would manifest itself in the work of so many huge r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ers like Snoop Dogg and Outkast.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, his earliest influences came from New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight when I moved to Oakland, that\u2019s when Sugar Hill Records started dropping a lot of stuff,\u201d Too $hort told me. \u201cIt was Grandmaster Flash, Sugarhill Gang, the other records after \u2018Rapper\u2019s Delight\u2019 \u2026 It\u2019s like 1980 \u2026 I\u2019m hearing all this hip-hop, and I\u2019m thinking to myself, \u2018Man, I could do this.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Too $hort took what he was hearing from the East Coast and added his East Oakland flavor, adopting the language of the colorful pimps in his neighborhood. He coined words like \u201cbiatch\u201d and \u201cmack,\u201d calling his 1987 album \u201cBorn To Mack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe word play was important. You have to be using it or creating it,\u201d he said of his style.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-acast wp-block-embed-acast\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Positive Intellectual Motivated Person ft. Too $hort\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/jalen-rose-renaissance-man\/positive-intellectual-motivated-person-ft-too-hort#?secret=kR23heQP91\" data-secret=\"kR23heQP91\" width=\"618px\" height=\"750px\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe slick OGs in the streets dropping a little rhyme, the little one liner, a little slick punch line on you \u2026 We interpreted that s\u2013t into hip-hop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another example: the phrase \u201cheezy fo scheezy,\u201d which he and his fellow Bay Area pioneer E-40 dropped in \u201cRappers\u2019 Ball\u201d as they were playing around in the studio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was something going around the Bay. It was coming from the pimps \u2026 Then Snoop Dogg did \u2018fo shizzle,\u2019 and it took on its own life. \u2018Player hater\u2019 is a Bay Area phrase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I met Too $hort in college and got to hang around him and his colorful cast of characters. Let me tell you, he\u2019s living that life. I always considered him the Hugh Hefner of rap, and a certain lyric about toes cemented that. He\u2019s still churning out those clever songs about the ladies, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MR0pvQMc_K0\">just released \u201cBig Sexy Thang\u201d with Lil Duval<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly on, I realized that saying something real slick would get you a reaction if you say something funny \u2026 All of those reactions are like reoccurring themes in Too $hort songs.\u201d He thinks \u201ca lot of rappers have their strong points with vocabulary delivery.\u201d But wacky lingo and clever lyrics became his calling card.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get to Atlanta and I show up, I got big rims on my car,\u201d he said. Guys like Young Jeezy and T.I. were kids hanging around where he was, whether it was outside his house or the barbershop.<\/p>\n<p>But back to his roots. There was a time when the Bay Area had some of the most distinct acts in hip-hop, from <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2010\/08\/11\/will-i-am-mc-hammer-have-rap-revival\/\">MC Hammer<\/a> to Tupac Shakur and Mac Dre, so I wanted to hear his thoughts on them. <\/p>\n<p>And it turns out, \u201cPlease Hammer Don\u2019t Hurt \u2019Em\u201d wasn\u2019t that far-fetched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMC Hammer, man, self-made. Hammer is a marketing genius, the way he came in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. He literally invented himself as a superstar. [He didn\u2019t start] as a star. [He] played the role before it happened.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Too $hort added that Hammer is \u201csometimes mistaken to be like \u2018the dancing dude\u2019 \u2026 But [he\u2019s] definitely not the guy you want to disrespect, face-to-face or, really, back in the day, step to his crew and treat them like R&amp;B singers or something. The Oakland was going to instantly come out, and you were going to find out, \u2018Oh, Hammer isn\u2019t playing around.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>As for Tupac, Too $hort felt worried he\u2019d burn too bright too fast. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis dude \u2026 If I take this dude to the deep Oakland hood, he\u2019s going to die \u2026 And he did exactly that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe dug too deep,\u201d Too $hort said of the late legend. \u201cHe wanted to be all of it. He was 100% for the ladies. He was 100% activist. He was a 100% gangster. He was a 100% poet. He was 100% everything he did \u2026 I felt like his talent was going to get sidetracked \u2026 I felt very protective of him. And when he got to LA, we wasn\u2019t protecting him like this. But you couldn\u2019t hold him back \u2026 When we got to LA, he was already there. He found his own way down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Mac Dre, who died in 2004, Too $hort wishes he could have seen him reach his full potential. \u201cI always felt like Dre was the people\u2019s champ.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>And I consider Too $hort to be the rapper\u2019s champ. He\u2019s a godfather of the genre and an icon who refuses to pump the brakes on his creative flow. He\u2019s still got his, ahem, infamous toes on the gas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Detroit native\u00a0Jalen Rose\u00a0is a member of the University of Michigan\u2019s iconoclastic Fab Five, who shook up the college hoops world in the early \u201990s. He played 13 seasons in the NBA, before transitioning into a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> personality. Rose is currently an analyst for \u201cNBA Countdown\u201d and \u201cGet Up,\u201d and co-host of \u201cJalen &amp; Jacoby.\u201d He executive produced \u201cThe Fab Five\u201d for ESPN\u2019s \u201c30 for 30\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, is the author of the best-selling book, \u201cGot To Give the People What They Want,\u201d a fashion tastemaker, and co-founded the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy, a public charter school in his hometown.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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