Too Short

Released in '92, Shorty The Pimp delivers the heady funk and humorous pimp raps that made Too Short a star. He also gets serious on several cuts, addressing wannabe gangstas and various social ills. Sports production from Ant Banks and the Wiggins brothers (Tony! Toni! Tone!).

In his fourth book, Iceberg Slim--who invented Short Dog's schtick as surely as Dr. Funkenstein--boasted about escaping "the terrible emptiness of the pimp game." He considered old pimps "contemptible," "pathetic." On his seventh album, Too Short boasts that he's "a player for life." Who you believe? (Grade - C+)