Too $hort has been honored with his own day in his hometown of Oakland and where a street on the city’s Eastside has been renamed “Too $hort Way” as well.
According to TMZ, the West Coast rapper received a proclamation from Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf officially making December 10 “Too $hort Day” during a rainy ceremony over the weekend. The event also marked the unveiling the new street sign, which now appears along a portion of Foothill Boulevard .
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“You have told the stories of Oakland’s streets,” Schaff told Too $hort, “so it’s only right that Oakland gives you a street!!!”
Plenty of the “Blow the Whistle” rapper’s friends were in attendance including Ice Cube, Mistah F.A.B., radio host Sway and many more.
Ice Cube even hopped on the mic at the ceremony at Fremont High School — where $hort once roamed the hallways years ago — to give the rapper his flowers for carving out his own lane in the Hip Hop industry.
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“He decided to put his energy, his time, his creativity into something positive and something constructive,” Cube said. “He took the whole industry by himself in a lot of ways by being the spearhead and letting people know about Oakland, California and The Bay Area.”
The hometown honors have been a long time coming for the Bay Area native.
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Too $hort’s built his career on salacious, sinister rhymes through a string of platinum and gold albums in the ’80s and ’90s, leading to a decorated résumé containing a boatload of albums that have charted in each of the past five decades.
With the release of his 22nd album titled Ain’t Gone Do It in December 2020, $hort became the only active rap artist to have released an album in five different decades.
The proclamation of Too $hort Day coincides with the release of Snoop, Cube, 40, $hort, his debut LP alongside Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube and E-40 as the West Coast super group, Mount Westmore. The highly anticipated 16-track album arrived last Friday (December 9).
