It’s impossible to overstate just how influential Too Short is to hip-hop culture. He is the only rapper to have worked with all of The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z and 2Pac, and over the span of his ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The older brother of rapper Too Short was shot and killed in Oakland this week during an attempted robbery, police said. The shooting occurred around 7 a.m. Wednesday when the suspects tried to ram a ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland police have arrested a 33-year-old man in connection with the death of rapper Too Short's brother. Jail records show Maijji Jackson was booked into Santa Rita Jail with no ...

Cops nabbed a man in connection with the slaying of rapper Too Short’s older brother in a possible shootout at an urban pot farm in Oakland, authorities announced Friday. Maijji Jackson was arrested ...

Bay Area rap legend Too Short recently opened up about meeting fellow icon Tupac Shakur after his move to Oakland, Calif. in the early 1990s, saying he actually avoided the budding rap star for ‘Pac’s ...

*Bay Area rapper Too Short has been accused of rape, according to TMZ. The alleged victim is said to be one of his protégés, who has participated in his videos and other projects. The woman claims ...

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - Rapper Too Short has been cited at a Southern California airport a day after fleeing a security checkpoint when a screener found a loaded handgun in his carry-on luggage.