The Early Years

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Copyright: ℗ 2007 Up All Nite Music

Annotation last modified on 2026-05-06 06:49 UTC.

Tracklist

1▼Digital Media
#	Title	Rating	Length
1	Oakland recording of: Oakland, California writer: Too $hort		6:49
2	Don’t Stop Rappin recording of: Don’t Stop Rappin’ (1985, “Don’t Stop Rappin’” version) writer and arranger: Dean Hodges (California producer) and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) publisher: 75 Girls Publishing		9:28
3	Short Rap engineer: Howard Johnston (engineer, co-owner “Different Fur Recording”) producer: Dean Hodges (California producer) and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) drum machine [Linn Drum]: Dean Hodges (California producer) and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) vocals: Too Short (Too $hort) phonographic copyright (℗) by: 75 Girls Records and Tapes (in 1985) produced for: 75 Girls Productions engineered at: Different Fur Recording in San Francisco, California, United States recording of: Shortrapp writer and arranger: Dean Hodges (California producer) and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) publisher: 75 Girls Publishing		7:09
4	Wild Wild West		7:04
5	Everytime		5:01
6	Coke Dealers		6:54
7	Female Funk engineer: Howard Johnston (engineer, co-owner “Different Fur Recording”) producer: Dean Hodges (California producer) and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) drum machine [Linn Drum]: Dean Hodges (California producer) and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) vocals: Too Short (Too $hort) phonographic copyright (℗) by: 75 Girls Records and Tapes (in 1985) produced for: 75 Girls Productions engineered at: Different Fur Recording in San Francisco, California, United States recording of: Female Funk writer and arranger: Dean Hodges (California producer) and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) publisher: 75 Girls Publishing		5:25
8	Girl That’s Your Life engineer: Howard Johnston (engineer, co-owner “Different Fur Recording”) producer: Dean Hodges (California producer) and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) drum machine [Linn Drum]: Dean Hodges (California producer) and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) vocals: Too Short (Too $hort) phonographic copyright (℗) by: 75 Girls Records and Tapes (in 1985) produced for: 75 Girls Productions engineered at: Different Fur Recording in San Francisco, California, United States recording of: Girl (Cocaine Rap) writer: Dean Hodges (California producer), Greg Levias and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) arranger: Dean Hodges (California producer) and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) publisher: 75 Girls Publishing		8:58
9	Invasion of the Flat Booty B*tches phonographic copyright (℗) by: 75 Girls Records and Tapes (in 1987) recording of: Invasion of the Flat Booty Bitches (1987, “Raw, Uncut and X‐Rated” version) lyricist: Too $hort composer: Dean Hodges (California producer) publisher: Gemini II (BMI), Promuse Inc. (BMI) and Spydo Music Co. (BMI)		5:08
10	Playboy Short engineer: Howard Johnston (engineer, co-owner “Different Fur Recording”) producer: Dean Hodges (California producer) and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) drum machine [Linn Drum]: Dean Hodges (California producer) and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) vocals: Too Short (Too $hort) phonographic copyright (℗) by: 75 Girls Records and Tapes (in 1985) produced for: 75 Girls Productions engineered at: Different Fur Recording in San Francisco, California, United States recording of: Playboy Short (1985, “Don’t Stop Rappin’”) writer and arranger: Dean Hodges (California producer) and Todd Shaw (Too $hort) publisher: 75 Girls Publishing	4	9:24
11	She Sucks recording of: The Bitch Sucks Dick		6:30
12	She’s Just a B*tch recording of: She’s a Bitch		9:50
13	Shortside Part 2		6:23
14	Shortside	3	5:44
15	Divide and Conquer		4:49

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Release information

Barcode:: 881034063793
Format:: Digital Media
Length:: 1:44:36

Additional details

Type:: Album + Compilation
Packaging:: None
Status:: Official
Language:: English
Script:: Latin
Data quality:: Normal

Labels

Up All Nite
UAN12

Release events

[Worldwide]
2007-06-05

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