Too Short Net Worth (2025)
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Too Short Debut Album and Own Record Label

Together with his high school friend, Freddy B., they created the label Dangerous Music to distribute music throughout their region. The two also created “special requests,” a collection of produced custom songs in the 1980s. 

Eventually, they added more people to the label and created The Dangerous Crew rap group. The original Dangerous Music became Short Record and, eventually, Up All Nite Records.

As for his first solo album…

Not long after, he released his debut album, Don’t Stop Rappin’. The album had simple and raw drum beats and became the first hip-hop album to use the word “bitch,” which became one of his trademarks. 

Just three years later, he followed this with his second album, Life Is…Too Short. Here, he started infusing replayed established funk riffs with his beats. 

You’ll be surprised with the people he had worked with…

His following projects mainly collaborated with big rap names like Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., Scarface, UGK, Jay-Z, E-40, Snoop Dogg, and Diddy. The World Is Filled… became one of his great tracks during this time, which is heard on Life After Death, Notorious B.I.G. album.

Moreover, he did a feature for TWDY’s Player’s Holiday single from the 1999 album Derty Werk and Priority Records’ Nuthin but a Gangsta Party. 

Too Short’s just starting…

He focused on working on his eleventh album, Can’t Stay Away. Then, he narrowed down his engagements, involving guest appearances by 8Ball & MJG, Jay-Z, Jermaine Dupri, Sean Combs, E-40, Daz Dillinger, Lil’ Jon, Soopafly, Scarface, and B-Legit. 

At the start of the 1990s, he used TR-808 in making most of his beats and switched to TR-909 in the late 2000s.

Too Short moved to Atlanta in 1994. However, his pieces didn’t get to work with more diverse groups of Southern talents until he collaborated with Lil Jon. He came completely out of retirement with his album, Can’t Stay Away in 1999.

Too Short’s Return and the West Coast Hip Hop

After his return, he put out new albums over the following years. Most of these new albums have a Dirty South or crunk-type sound as he gained more familiarity with Southern rap. Even with his unique rap style, he didn’t let go of his signature funk or sexually explicit style. 

From 2000 to 2003, he released You Nasty, Chase the Cat, What’s My Favorite Food?, and Married to the Game.

The following year, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas featured his 1990 single The Ghetto. It was heard on Radio Los Santos, a hip-hop radio station for West Coast.

Continuing to soar in the 2000s…

His 2006’s album Blow the Whistle that resurfaced brought Too Short at #14 on the Billboard Hot 200. The album was a hit and much better than his past releases. However, Get Off the Stage wasn’t as successful as his previous releases. 

Later in 2008, Too Short became one of the VH1’s honorees during the fifth annual Hip-Hop Honors and Cypress Hill, De La Soul, Slick Rick, and Naughty By Nature. 

The following year, he made Lil Jon, B-Legit, Scarface, Soopafly, and Daz Dillinger. Two years later, he got featured in rapper Wiz Khalifa hi-song On My Level. He also got to work with Snoop Dogg on his track Take U Home from his Doggumentary album. Lastly, he was part of 50 Cent’s song, First Date. 

We’re not done yet…

Too Short and E-40 released a couple of collaboration albums. The albums were called History: Mob Music and History: Function Music. Both reached the top 100 spots on Billboard’s 200 album chart. 

According to Too short, his best verse can be heard on Man’s Best Friend (Pussy) from Dr. Dre’s Detox album.

We’re almost through glimpsing…

In 2012, he released his most recent studio album, No Trespassing. The following year, he worked with Lady Gaga on Jewels n’ Drugs for the album Artpop. Twista and T.I were also part of the song.