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The Questlove Show

QLS Classic: Too Short

The Questlove Show

iHeartPodcasts

Music, Society & Culture

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

Rapper, record producer and Hip Hip icon Too $hort talks about getting his start in Oakland, his legendary collaborations and breaks down the trinity/triumvirate of Bay Area hip hop from which all hyphy flows.

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Any musician will tell you they do what they do out of love,

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but it's not always pretty.

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That's like the only black person in the room I looked around like,

0:09.0

is everybody equally appalled?

0:11.0

And she said to me,

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Kevin, did you not see it?

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I'm Terrence McKnight, host of Every Voice,

0:16.0

a new podcast that interrogates the culture of our classical music

0:20.0

and looks at ways to make it beautiful for all of us.

0:22.0

Listen, wherever you get podcasts.

0:30.0

Of course, Love Supreme is a production of I Heart Radio.

0:33.0

This classic episode was produced by the team at Pandora.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to QLS Classic Episode 49

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with the King of All Freaky Tales,

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Too Short, September 2017.

0:47.0

The joys of doing this show y'all

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is being able to nerd out on our favorites,

0:51.0

and Todd Too Short Shaw is no exception y'all.

0:55.0

He's an example of a self-made millionaire

0:58.0

upstart, literally starting his own empire,

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selling out the truck of his car.

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And the tellsiest of tellboy?

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