Short Dog's In The House
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Short Dog's in the House is the sixth studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Too Short. This album also features Ice Cube
Ice Cube
O'Shea Jackson , better known by his stage name Ice Cube, is an American rapper and actor. He began his career as a member of the hip-hop group C.I.A. and later joined the rap group N.W.A. After leaving N.W.A in December 1989, he built a successful solo career in music, and also as a writer,...

 and the Doggy style of the album inspired many upcoming rappers including Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...

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This is the explicit version's track listing. The edited removes two songs. On the edited version, "Ain't Nothin' but a Word to Me" was censored with bleep sound effects. Swearing is removed from others as well.

Track listing

  1. "Short Dog's in the House"
  2. "It's Your Life"
  3. "The Ghetto
    The Ghetto
    "The Ghetto" is a 1990 single by Oakland rapper Too Short from his album Short Dog's in the House. The song was featured on the fictional radio station Radio Los Santos in the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The instrumental was based on the Donny Hathaway song of the same name...

    "
  4. "Short But Funky"
  5. "In the Oaktown"
  6. "Dead or Alive"
  7. "Punk Bitch"
  8. "Ain't Nothin' but a Word to Me" (featuring Ice Cube
    Ice Cube
    O'Shea Jackson , better known by his stage name Ice Cube, is an American rapper and actor. He began his career as a member of the hip-hop group C.I.A. and later joined the rap group N.W.A. After leaving N.W.A in December 1989, he built a successful solo career in music, and also as a writer,...

    )
  9. "Hard on the Boulevard"
  10. "Pimpology"
  11. "Paula & Janet"
  12. "Rap Like Me" (dis of MC Hammer
    MC Hammer
    Stanley Kirk Burrell , better known by his stage name MC Hammer , is an American rapper, entertainer, business entrepreneur, dancer and actor. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s...

    )
  13. "The Ghetto" (Reprise)


Note: On the cassette version of the album, "The Ghetto" is extended to 5:58, which features a segment of one of the Last Poets' speeches "Die Nigga". After Too Short's 4th verse, he says "For all you brothas runnin' around here usin' that "n-word", lets the original rappers kick the last verse", for which then the segment comes in.

Chart positions

Chart Position
Billboard 200 # 20
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums # 3

The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA

Singles

Short But Funky
Chart Position
Hot R&b/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks # 36
Hot Rap Singles # 14

The Ghetto
Chart Position
Hot Rap Singles # 3
Hot Dance Musica/Maxi-Singles Sales # 23
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks # 12
Billboard Hot 100 # 42
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