Consumer Guide Album

Too Short: Shorty the Pimp [Jive, 1992]
In his fourth book, Iceberg Slim--who invented Short Dog's schtick as surely as Dr. Funkenstein--boasted about escaping "the terrible emptiness of the pimp game." He considered old pimps "contemptible," "pathetic." On his seventh album, Too Short boasts that he's "a player for life." Who you believe? C+