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People's Party with Talib Kweli

Too $hort Talks #MeToo Vs. Pimpin', 2Pac, Biggie, And How Dope Money Financed Rap

People's Party with Talib Kweli

UPROXX

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4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of People's Party, Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with Bay Area Rap Legend Too $hort. The trio touch on a range of topics including the evolution of the Bay Area hip hop sound, his multiple retirements, the huge success he found working with artists outside his genre like Lil' Jon and Biggie, and his trademark persona as a pimp rapper and why that seems to translate to such a wide audience.

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0:00.0

What's up party people? It's Tyler and Kuala Lita, host of the People's Party.

0:03.4

I know you've been enjoying it so far. We thank you for your love and support.

0:06.8

We got more people's party coming up. We got all types of situations that you're

0:10.6

gonna want to tune into and never forget to watch. Tyler and Kuala Lita, Jasmine Lee,

0:14.8

it is the People's Party. Let's go.

0:16.5

What's up party people? It's Tyler and Kuala Lita, BKMC, the MCEO. Welcome to another fantastic

0:34.5

edition of the People's Party Show. I got my wonderful co-host Jasmine Lee and the

0:39.5

house. How you doing Jasmine? I am chilling over here getting high feet.

0:43.7

You getting high feet? Yeah baby. Are you sound like you from California? I am.

0:47.3

Now today is a very Callie episode because this gentleman that we have today, he is from

0:52.8

California. He's born in Los Angeles but he quickly moved from Los Angeles to the Bay Area

0:58.2

and he is synonymous with the Bay Area. This is the OG that your OG's respect.

1:05.2

This is the OG that your OG's want to do songs with. You understand what I'm saying?

1:10.3

Ladies and gentlemen, we got the Bay Area's own two short and the mother-fucker house.

1:22.1

What's up short? How you feeling? Doing good man out here, surviving the game,

1:28.1

doing it. A lot of people don't know that you and I work together on a strong arms

1:32.1

daddy song. We've done stuff. We've done some things together. We spent some time hanging out

1:36.3

on nightclubs. Exactly DJ Boussa. That stuff. I was shot out the strong arms steady,

1:42.3

filled the agony, Cron Don, Micheal Slick. Okay. Short was featured on the song and

1:46.4

in the video on point that I put out when I was rocking with Blacksmith. So yeah, you were born

1:51.7

in Los Angeles? Yeah, I spent the young years in LA and then right when that time,

1:57.2

it was actually like right when I first heard hip hop. I heard hip hop for the first time in

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