Too Short Honoured With His Own Day In Oakland At Street Naming Ceremony

A street on Oakland’s East side has also been renamed “Too Short Way” in honor of Too Short, who also has a day named after him.

In a soggy ceremony over the weekend, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf presented the West coast rapper with a proclamation designating December 10 as “Too Short Day,” according to TMZ, The new street sign, which can now be seen along a section of Foothill Boulevard, was also unveiled at the occasion.

“You have told the stories of Oakland’s streets,” Schaff told too short, “so it’s only right that Oakland gives you a street!!!”

There were numerous friends of the “Blow the whistle” rapper’s friend’s were in attendance including Ice Cube, Mistah F.A.B, radio host Sway and many more.

Ice Cube even hopped on the mic at the ceremony at Frentmont High School, where Short once roamed the hallways years ago, to give the rapper his flowers for carving out his own lane in the Hip Hop industry.

“He decided to put his energy, his time, his creativity into something positive and something constructive,” Cube said. “He took the whole industry by himself in a lot of ways by being the spearhead and letting people know about Oakland, California and the Bay Area.”

The hometown honors have been a long time coming for the Bay Area native.

Too Short’ built his career on salacious, sinister rhymes through a string of platinum and gold albums in the 80s and 90s, leading to a decorated resume containing a boatload of albums that have charted in each of the past five decades.

With the release of his 22nd album titled “Ain’t Gone Do it” in December 2022, Short became the only active rapper to have released an album in five different decades.

What are your thoughts on this? Let us know in the comments section.