TOO $HORT – Short Dog’s In The House (Reissue) – LP – Blue & Ruby Colour-In-Colour Vinyl [MAY 30]

LP – Limited Edition Blue & Ruby Colour-In-Colour Vinyl (2025 Repress).

In my category, Im the one and only, proclaimed Oakland legend Too $hort on his 1990 single Short But Funky. Few disagreed then, and even fewer would do so decades later. First appearing in the mid-1980s, slinging homemade tapes out of his car trunk, the man born Todd Shaw has always stayed true to himself. Although he is known more for the dirty side of his rap game, on Short But Funky, he also reminds listeners of an important fact: Theres a serious side to everything I say.

Short Dogs In The House, was $horts sixth studio album, and his second for the Jive label. By the time it hit, he was a West Coast legend, but his rep was growing Eastwards, as the rest of the country started opening its ears to new sounds. Peaking at #20 on the national Billboard 200 chart, the album was exactly what his dedicated fans expected funky, 70s drenched beats made for cars on the boulevard, and no nonsense lyrics that made more sense and dropped more knowledge than he was ever given credit for. For examples of his conscious side, look no further than the P-Funk fuelled Its Your Life or the albums lead single, The Ghetto. The albums second single Short But Funky landed somewhere in the middle of $hort and Todd Shaw, talking about where he was at as the new decade broke, and making it clear that he wasnt going anywhere. His mortality was mainly on his mind after rumours had surfaced the year before that he had died in a crack house. He speaks directly to this crazy episode on Dead Or Alive. And although its mostly a solo affair, he brings in some heavy artillery and a lot of not for the kids profanity on Aint Nothin But A Word To Me, featuring none other than Ice Cube. In between, $hort distributed plenty of tales and charisma for fans to eat up, continuing to build his legendary status as one of the rap trailblazers of the era.

Get On Down has repressed this 1990 Bay Area classic album on Blue and Ruby Colour-In-Colour vinyl.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Short Dogs In The House
2. Its Your Life
3. The Ghetto
4. Short But Funky
5. Dead Or Alive

Side B
1. Punk Bitch
2. Aint Nothin But A Word To Me feat Ice Cube
3. Hard On The Boulevard
4. Paula & Janet
5. Rap Like Me