Too $hort is an American rapper and record producer. He began selling tapes out of the trunk of his car in Oakland in the mid-1980s and had released numerous albums by 1996, including Life Is...Too $hort, Get In Where You Fit In, and Blow The Whistle. Too $hort has also appeared in the films Menace II Society and the documentaries Ghostride the Whip and Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told. Among his most popular songs are Blow the Whistle, Shake That Monkey, and Gettin' It.