| Product Summary | | Label: Bmg/jive/silvertone | | UPC: 00012414171122 | | Release Date: 9/12/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 60431974 | | Item#: MCWHDM | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2000 Zomba Recording LLC (C) 2000 Zomba Recording LLC
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Too Short (rap vocals); Torrance Scott (guitar, bass); Erick Sermon (keyboards); Kokaine, Mike D, Dionne Jackson, Tye Samples, Val Young, Murda One (background vocals); Nation Riders, E-40, Chyna, Captain Save 'Em. | | Producers include: Prowla, Quint Black, DJ Silk, Sonny B, Mike D. | | Recorded at Blue Basement Recordings and Backyard Beats, Atlanta, Georgia. | | Personnel includes: Too Short (rap vocals); Torrance Scott (guitar, bass); Erick Sermon (keyboards); Kokaine, Mike D, Dionne Jackson, Tye Samples, Val Young, Murda One (background vocals); Nation Riders, E-40, Chyna, Captain Save 'Em. | | Producers include: Prowla, Quint Black, DJ Silk, Sonny B, Mike D. | | Recorded at Blue Basement Recordings and Backyard Beats, Atlanta, Georgia. | | Personnel: Torrance Scott (guitar); Erick Sermon (keyboards); Mike D , Val Young (background vocals). | | Recording information: Backyard Beats, Atlantic City, GA; Bad Ass Beat Lab, Oakland, CA; Blue Basement Recordings; Mirror Image Studios, Long Island. | | You Nasty, the follow-up to Too Short's comeback album Can't Stay Away is an above-average latter-day effort by the industrious rapper. Strong production work by Ant Banks, Erick Sermon, and Jazze Pha is a highlight, as are a few notable songs such as "2 Bitches," "Anything Is Possible," and the title track. There's a good serving of filler here, of course, yet overall You Nasty is one of Too Short's more inspired, if sharply jaded, post-retirement albums. ~ Jason Birchmeier | | In the mercurial world of hip-hop, there are precious few things one can count on, but one of them is the pimp-rap of Oakland's Too Short. A true veteran, Too Short's been at it since the '80s, a fact he's not too shy to remind us of on YOU NASTY. Too Short has never had any qualms about portraying himself as a pimp/player, a true cynic who eschews any form of romanticism in favor of the old wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am, perhaps minus the "thank you." Throughout YOU NASTY he remains consistent with his reputation, detailing the ways in which he uses women for both sex and profit. Clearly, he won't win the hearts of PC listeners, but anyone interested in sonic missives straight from the heart of down-and-dirty pimp culture, delivered over funky west coast beats, will find just what they want here. | | In the mercurial world of hip-hop, there are precious few things one can count on, but one of them is the pimp-rap of Oakland's Too Short. A true veteran, Too Short's been at it since the '80s, a fact he's not too shy to remind us of on YOU NASTY. Too Short has never had any qualms about portraying himself as a pimp/player, a true cynic who eschews any form of romanticism in favor of the old wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am, perhaps minus the "thank you." Throughout YOU NASTY he remains consistent with his reputation, detailing the ways in which he uses women for both sex and profit. Clearly, he won't win the hearts of PC listeners, but anyone interested in sonic missives straight from the heart of down-and-dirty pimp culture, delivered over funky west coast beats, will find just what they want here. |
Engineer: Don Brown; Don "DJ Snake" Brown; Robin Mays |
Musical Guests | | E-40 | | Chyna | | The Nation Riders | | Captain Save 'Em |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/12/2000 | | Original Release Date : 2000 | | Catalog ID : 41711 | | Label : Jive Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00012414171122 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Spin (10/00, pp.180-2)
- 6 out of 10 - "...Contentedly freaky....He's milked the same boobs'n'bass on 6 platinum albums and he's still around to tell the tall, unexpurgated tales..."Spin (10/00, pp.180-2)
- 6 out of 10 - "...Contentedly freaky....He's milked the same boobs'n'bass on 6 platinum albums and he's still around to tell the tall, unexpurgated tales..." Vibe (10/00, pp.165-6)
- 3 records of 5 - "...When it comes to pimp-hop-ology, he's the theme, the variation, and anything else one could claim royalties on....[He] has a formula as familiar as the sunrise: Sex plus funk plus beats equals precious metals...it will satisfy hardcore Short fans..." Vibe (10/00, pp.165-6)
- 3 records of 5 - "...When it comes to pimp-hop-ology, he's the theme, the variation, and anything else one could claim royalties on....[He] has a formula as familiar as the sunrise: Sex plus funk plus beats equals precious metals...it will satisfy hardcore Short fans..." Rap Pages (7/00, p.55)
- "...[He] brings that Bay area nastiness we love him for - with authority this time....the beats will pound and the pimped-out lyrics will cause more than a few raised eyebrows....with rhymes that never fall short of hilarious and production too heated to ever get luke warm." Rap Pages (7/00, p.55)
- "...[He] brings that Bay area nastiness we love him for - with authority this time....the beats will pound and the pimped-out lyrics will cause more than a few raised eyebrows....with rhymes that never fall short of hilarious and production too heated to ever get luke warm." |
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| | Bio | | Whoever coined the phrase "you can't keep a good man down," obviously had Bay Area rap pioneer Too $hort in mind. He has overcome tremendous obstacles in his quest to be the best player/rapper in a game he largely invented. For the past ten years, Todd Shaw (AKA Too $hort), the man who was quite literally "born to mack," has been rap's original pimp lyricist of the year--selling his unique blend of laid-back folk poetry to millions of die-hard fans around the globe. Beginning with his classic underground Born To Mack on through LPs like $hort Dog's In The House, and Get In Where You Fit In, Too $hort has released an unprecedented ten straight LPs (seven on Jive Records). In a world where the average rapper is lucky to see three records hit the shelf, Too $hort has seen each of his Jive releases either go gold or platinum with little or no major support from major media outlets. Back in the day, the average fan learned about the new Too $hort record strictly by word of mouth traveling from street to street, hood to hood. What's the secret to $hort's winning streak? Well, to let him tell it, it's all about staying true to the game by being yourself and never switching your game plan to be like the next man. And $hort's game plan is simple--take the game that he learned form observing Oakland's infamous pimps and players and lay it down over some infectious bass-heavy mid-tempo funk known throughout the Bay area as "Dope Fiend" beats. "In my case the 'dope' is the music and the 'fiend' is the one that listens to it," explains Too $hort. "I first conceived it as this kind of infectious music that you didn't hear on the radio or TV. Basically, I wanted to create music that the real players bump." But in 1996, after a ten year reign of spitting game on the mic, $hort shocked the world and retired from doing solo recordings. Yet after announcing his retirement and dropping the stellar platinum Gettin' It (Album Number Ten), $hort's trademark high pitch voice began to pop on almost every major recording you can think of, proving that the sultan of Black Exploitation's reign on wax was far from being over. In the past year or so, he has blessed the mic with the likes of Jay-Z, E-40, Lil' Kim, Scarface and Jermaine Dupri. Due to tremendous popular demand from his fans and Too $hort's own love for the rap game, he returned with the stunning Can't Stay Away (a title that is derived from the Bootsy Collins' hit of the same name), his eleventh recording. The original player-pimp makes it a "dirty dozen" with the release of his latest album, You Nasty, his eighth on the Jive label. Pimps, players, playettes and player-haters, prepare for the next chapter by the original mack of hip hop.
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