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Untraditionally Lala

and Too $hort

Untraditionally Lala

iHeartPodcasts

Tv & Film, Fashion & Beauty, Kids & Family, Arts

3.413.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Too $hort drops by to talk about his days playing in his high school band, the unconventional way he learned the ropes of the music industry, how a conversation with a homeless man inspired his name, and recording with Biggie, Tupac, and Jay-Z. $hort also explains how he managed to stay neutral during the whole East Coast-West Coast rivalry, and the last conversation he had with Tupac just hours before Tupac was killed in Las Vegas. Plus, $hort speaks to his own experiences with the police and systemic racism growing up in Oakland, California, and how that inspired his work with the local community group, Youth Uprising. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Hello, my loves. It is Lala Kent with Randall.

0:17.5

And if you guys have forgotten, this is the Give Them La La with Randall

0:22.5

podcast. We've taken a couple weeks off. Yes. And we are glad to be back. I can tell you that.

0:28.5

The thing is, you know, we were going to come back last week and we didn't really know.

0:35.1

I actually don't think we were ready. We just did know I I didn't know I didn't know

0:40.4

I couldn't start I couldn't like sit in this room with a microphone in front of me and just

0:46.8

fucking speak when I knew that there were things going on outside of this room that I could be a

0:53.4

part of well you went you went to a lot of that I could be a part of. Well, you went, you went to a lot

0:55.8

of protests. I went to a couple, but you were at a lot of them. I mean, and, uh, and I just think it

1:02.6

would have just been irresponsible of us to come back in here when we were still processing,

1:08.7

when we were still having conversations. I definitely was having a lot,

1:12.7

and I know you were. We've been doing a lot of listening and a lot of reflection, and we think

1:17.7

the best thing for us to do is to continue listening. I agree. So having said that, we are back

1:24.9

today, and I am very excited about our guest because our guest is

1:30.7

the amazing, insightful, incredibly talented, and friend of ours, I always say that long. I always say

1:39.2

everybody's a fucking friend of ours, but too short. Too short. Someone who I've been a fan of since I was a young kid

1:47.9

living in Utah turning up to his music and you've been asking you've been actually actually since

1:54.5

I introduced you to too short what about I don't know a year ago or something yeah you were asking

2:00.1

when we get our podcast going you got to get them on the air.

2:03.4

And I was like, of course he'll come on.

2:04.6

So it's just really cool that, you know, he has become a friend.

2:09.0

But at the same time, I think too short is like in my age demographic.

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