Too $hort Replies To Arrest Reports; Due In Court In August

Too $hort Replies To Arrest Reports; Due In Court In August


Monday, July 19, 2010 6:53 PM


By Roman Wolfe

(AllHipHop News) Oakland, California rapper Too $hort will appear in court August 4th to answer three misdemeanor assault charges stemming from an altercation backstage at the Knitting Factory in Boise, Idaho last week.



Too $hort and an associate were arrested on July 15th, for allegedly punching and kicking several employees of The Knitting Factory, after they allegedly refused to admit two 18-year-old women backstage during a concert.



"The accusations against me regarding my arrest in Idaho on July 15th, were untrue and exaggerated,” Too $hort said in a statement released earlier today. “Normally I would ignore rumors, but because of the nature of the story that's being spread I had to say something.”



Too $hort, born Todd Shaw, admitted his raunchy lyrics may have cast him in a negative light, but took offense to reports that the women involved in the altercation were “under age girls.”



“Due to my work with young people in Oakland I am extremely outraged at the way I am being portrayed,” Too $hort stated. “The incident that night was completely taken out of context and I have not and never will take advantage of any woman that is under age. Never that!



Too $hort said that he was outraged at the way his arrest was being portrayed in the media, especially in light of his community work, most notably with the renowned East Oakland community center, Youth UpRising.



“Due to my work with young people in Oakland I am extremely outraged at the way I am being portrayed. The incident that night was completely taken out of context and I have not and never will take advantage of any woman that is under age. Never that!”



“These days people believe everything that they see on TV and these blogs,” Too $hort continued. “I have been dedicated to youth organizations and wish to continue to support them and I do not want my community and especially young people that look up to me to think that this is the type of thing that I would do."
 
From AllHipHop.com
 
http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2010/07/19/22302314.aspx

Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation Preps Birthday Concert

Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation Preps Birthday Concert
June 14, 2010 03:25:00 PM CDT

by Sean Ryon

This coming June 16 marks the 39th birthday of fallen soldier Tupac Shakur, and the charitable foundation that bears his name and legacy is planning to celebrate it to the fullest. For their second annual birthday concert, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation has enlisted the likes of Rick Ross, Bun B, Too $hort, Roscoe Dash and Pill, with even more artists yet to be announced. Handling the hosting duties will be comedian Mike Epps and Pac's own mother Afeni Shakur.



The concert is slated to begin at 7 PM on June 16, with ticket prices starting at $25. For more information, please visit the Tupac Shakur Foundation's website.

From HipHopDX.com
 
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.11471/title.tupac-amaru-shakur-foundation-preps-birthday-concert

E-40, Too Short, Brotha Lynch Hung, Spice 1, All To Release Spring Albums

E-40, Too Short, Brotha Lynch Hung, Spice 1, All To Release Spring Albums
February 27, 2010 10:02:00 AM CST | by Salima Koroma

The Bay Area's own Hip Hop ambassador, E-40 announced earlier this month that he plans to release two separate albums on the same day. Titled Revenue Retrievin' The Day Shift and Revenue Retrievin' The Night Shift, the pair will make up his 11th and 12th full-length albums respectively.

E-40 took a small hiatus after releasing The Ball Street Journal in 2008, and will work with independent label Heavy On The Grind Entertainment to release his upcoming albums. Mistah Fab, Clyde Carson, Gucci Mane, and Messy Marv are just a few names who will appear on the project.

Revenue Retrievin' The Day Shift and Revenue Retrievin' The Night Shift are expected to hit shelves on Mar. 30.

East Oakland Rap veteran Too Short, who will also feature on one of E-40's thirty-eight tracks, recently announced that his upcoming studio album Still Blowin' will see an April 6 release. The project will be added to Short's impressive list of 18 other albums, six of which went platinum or higher. It will be the first full-length LP released on his independent label Dangerous Music, and will feature Cash Money's Baby, Lil Jon, Jazze Pha, and others.

Still Blowin' will be a full digital release.



Sacramento emcee Brotha Lynch Hung is also coming off of a long hiatus with his newest album, Dinner and A Movie. The project will be his first since 2003's Lynch By Inch. It will also be the first of a conceptual trilogy that he will release in the fall.

Inspired by the Horror genre, the album presents Hung as possessing a split personality. He acts as an average man by day, and a rapper-killer by night, a none-too-inconspicuous ode to the Jekyll and Hyde complex. In addition, the rapper has teamed with director Dan Gedman to film several videos for the series.

"This is the first time this has ever been done," Gedman said in a statement. "We are visually bringing this character to life, and then Lynch is going to write the next two albums. It's an interactive process. Now he has to lyrically revisit the character and story, knowing what it all looks like."

The first installment of Hung's three-part series, Dinner and A Movie, will release under Tech N9ne's Strange Music label in March.

Additionally, Andre Nickatina's Khan: The Me Generation, Spice 1's Home Street Home and Richie Rich's Town Bidness are due, however details are sparse on all three at this point. HipHopDX will keep you updated.

From HipHopDX.com

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.10724/title.e-40-too-short-brotha-lynch-hung-spice-1-all-to-release-spring-albums