This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Like me, you probably remember where you were when you heard the news that rapper Too $hort was retiring. Or not.
Either way, when this O-Town rhyme baron called it quits a few years back, gangsta-rap was more or less on the ropes. Now, thanks to folks like Jay-Z and Master P, it’s back, and so is the $hort dawg. Too bad he hasn’t learned any new tricks. His 11th CD is just the usual collection of slow-rolling funk and priapic pimp raps about blunts and beeyatches, featuring the same roster of guests (Puff Daddy, E-40, Jay-Z, Jermaine Dupri, Scarface) as every other hip-hop disc this year. It might have been better if he had stayed away.
