Too $hort is known as a diehard Golden State Warriors fan alongside fellow Bay Area rap legend E-40.
Even with the rocky start and Steph Curry’s shoulder injury, $hort remains confident the Dubs can continue their dynasty (four championships in eight years) and repeat as champions this season.
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“What happened last year pissed a lot of people off,” he said of the 2022 NBA Finals title in an interview with TMZ. “A season like right now, you only got a .500 record and you kinda sit there and feel good. You know my team ain’t bout to fall off and we got a chance.
“When people hate on the Warriors, us Warrior fans don’t care because we spent a lot of years at the bottom of the division. Now that we coming to yo town and your team plays their best game of the season against us, as a fan we like that’s how it’s supposed to be.”
For the music heads to understand, Too $hort even made a music analogy when translating how the Warriors pulled off an unlikely run to the 2022 NBA Finals to defeat the Boston Celtics while other teams were clearly better during the regular season, but they didn’t have the same championship DNA as the Dubs.
“In the music terms, I could tell you we make a lot of dope songs, but when it’s time to mix those songs down and master them and put them on an actual project, all that stuff you were loving in the studio and when you was on the road, it might not fly when you put it out to the public if you don’t put it out properly,” he said.
After dropping five out of their last six games, the Warriors returned to form to throttle their rival Memphis Grizzlies in blowout fashion by a score of 123-109 on Christmas evening.
They got the win to up their record to 16-18 without superstar guard Steph Curry, who will reportedly remain sidelined for the next two weeks with a shoulder injury.
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In a recent interview with HipHopDX, Short revealed that he is still an old school guy when it comes to creating in the studio. $hort Dog prefers to keep it old school with writing his rhymes out, but he has at least migrated from pen and paper to an iPad.
“I’m a songwriter, man. Just for the sport of it,” $hort told DX. “I never knew how to freestyle back in the day. Never could fucking freestyle so even in the booth, the idea of letting it flow freely…
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“I watched Earl work, I watched him do songs over the years,” he continued, referring to E-40. “The idea of doing it that way to me is like, I kinda wanna go in the booth already knowing where I’m going. I don’t want to find my way while I’m in the booth. Me personally. I have a way of writing songs that I need to say this, and I need to say that. So I can’t really start here and end up there in real time.
“I don’t use paper man. I got a old shitty iPad I keep in the studio,” Too $hort added. “It’s got a million rhymes in it. I’m like, at least I’m going digital. I type it in the iPad, but it’s on the cloud so it pops up on my phone too. So my rhymes go with me. It works.”
