Nervous Rex, we're here with the one and only too short aka Todd Shaw

aka the O.G from the bay actually you know what wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute you told me you're from LA moved to the bay is that correct you

were from LA as a child I was born on sunset boulevard what Kaiser hospital

okay and I moved What? Kaiser Hospital. Okay.

And I moved, I've born in LA, but I moved to the bay right after ninth grade.

Okay, so you had some formative years in LA and why did you go to the bay what brought you to the bay area

where you learned the game and became an MC?

My mother worked for Internal Revenue Service.

She basically just transferred her job and I went up there to the bay.

This was like an eighth grade and I went up there and I'm like, I think I want to stay in LA.

Why didn't you like the bay initially?

Just too different?

Well, you know, you're cold.

Just leaving home, friend school.

Right. So I stayed in LA and I stayed with my father and he was super strict and then my brother

my older brother is with my mother for one year saying I'm having a time of my life.

Like he's like this is different than what we were doing before like it was

he was talking about the school and the friends and everything his whole new lifestyle so I come up there and visit and I'm like he's not lying

But then I I kicked up a big fuss about not moving not staying in the bay

So now you know your parents like, well you got what you want it. So I had to undo it.

Got it. And the undoing was probably like the birth of too short.

Right. I had a similar experience, but it was within the bay when I was in eighth grade. No, I'm sorry, sixth grade. I moved from San Francisco to Alameda, which is Oakland adjacent. Two different planets. Two different planets. planets.

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