Testing Too $hort's Music Knowledge

All right, so I'm going to play you some songs and you have to tell me who the artist is just the artist I have to name this song just the artist if I don't know the artist you're gonna tell me yeah, I'll tell you all right cool I might want to know That is a Marvin Gaye song introduce yourself. What's up, y'all this is too short in the house on the street with Jack Jack, yeah, Jack I thought you just said I'm track track track track track start jack all right You're one for one tell me about Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye um, I grew up in a household that Played a lot of motel music and Marvin Gaye was a big part of that I'm Marvin Gaye temptations. That was some of my pops favorite so as I got older being in my car Like bump into Marvin Gaye like Marvin Gaye great as it's something for sure All right, I know that that is Rick James And yes, we love that song right there very funky you like funky. I am music funk is like my favorite of all Anything why why don't we go down a little bit of a funk path and they will turn the corner and you get no one turn the corner You can tell me a little bit. I mean Rick James is yeah, I mean Rick James came out and some of his early songs Making like marijuana references and you know young people kind of loved his new young flavor He was a motel artist at a time when you know the motel sound was a little aging And he came in there and breathed some fresh air into the building he brought a little Tina Marie and it just a lot of You know the Rick James catalog is filled with funky songs This song was made by It's a tricky one because it could either be zapped or it could be Roger. I'm gonna say it's a zapsong. Yes. Yeah, explain the zapping Roger thing Well, you know I'm Roger Troutman. I guess you would have considered the leader of the group zapped It was a family type situation. I know they came about Ohio. I think Dayton could have been the city Dayton Ohio probably had Dayton Roger later on made some solo joints with some songs that we know and love But we also love the zapsong suit more bounce to the house See if you can play me any Roger zapsong. I would say wasn't that wasn't Roger I don't know but as a collective I love everything they did get points for either okay a little bit So we'll do this one first and then I'll I have a question Yeah That'd be the gal band. Yes, gal band. You're getting these quick too. Yeah, yeah, I'm a music guy Funk music starts getting really weird in the 80s like really extra funky. What do you think that was about? Is it the technology shifting when it was just all bands and real musicians playing instruments I think it had a certain feel James Brown. Yeah, James Brown was a big artist. Yeah, and he's making this stuff called funk And he's making everybody dance and it sounds great and it's just like in the moment it is everything So then you got all these bands from everywhere trying to be funky like the king But then later you get near the late 70s early 80s and it starts becoming more and more synthesized funk with drum machines and keyboards instead of like guitar players and actual drummers I just think it's it gets a little more electronic. Yeah, the funk expanded earthwind and fire is a good example of like with the regular instruments and then introducing the synthesizers stuff and some of their later 80s were weird man The 80s are weird things so a lot of a lot of culture. I should end that technology and it just You know, it was a lot of things going on outside of that too. Yeah, it had to find this place. Yeah It's ice cube. Yeah, not the original. What's the original? The original is probably um, I keep hearing footsteps baby. I see brothers Oh He's like come on me. You know everything. I know everything bro. That's the point. That's the point This is a digital underground Actually, no, this is two-packed featuring money B. Yeah. Yeah, come on. I heard money be told a story This was a digital underground song that never got recorded and then one day two Pock just yeah, it's kind of a unique beat for him. Mm-hmm, right? It's like a little bit outside the norm But when you hear shock G and money be due their part you understand this is Two-pack in the in the digital underground in their world. Yeah, he's doing their thing not his thing That happens all the time in hip-hop, but this was early two-pack Who probably hadn't had his say so yet? Yeah, he's still an employee so to speak in the digital underground family He's under shock G and money B. He's trying to get in and this is a great foot in the door That's a problem with hip-hop in this game is a lot of times they say their name I knew what it was when he's when he started talking because I know a ball's voice And I probably played a song a million times You know our vice president Kamala Harris was on this show and I played her Your song. I did not know that yeah, well, she flashed a clip up Too short unexpected now for you From the back there we go we go and I mean she guessed it in one second. Hey Well, we are from the same town. She's like everybody in the bay like flattered Cool. Let's go uh, let's go forward But you're in 2019 if I had to to just listen to what I'm hearing I would say like some Tyler the creator. Yes, that's what it comes. Yes. I wanted to say it in the beginning But I'm like let me hear you guys. Come on. You guys suck it out a little bit But you know, I actually don't know this song. I just know his energy. What do you think? That's dope. Yeah, he and he has A braveness that you hear his song and it's working. He like it has to be somebody like him to make this work You know, so respect as an artist You Big shot in 40 crazy crap. It was just announced that it went diamond. It's crazy It went diamond after all these years. It makes sense because it's always in my head It is a kind of song that you will sing at Starbucks in your own mind when somebody pisses you off. You like Bitch, I don't fuck with you. The beat is undeniable too. That part. Yeah. I think mustard. I think it could be a mustard beat But I heard he 40 they were celebrating to go and diamond with With big shine and has some people at the table and they were like cheers in the song when diamond and 40 was like telling the story about how you got the phone call and how you came recorded how it came to be And he was like then Kanye did his little woo pop on it and I don't know what that meant But it sounds like a DJ mustard beat so maybe Mustard did it they laid the vocals and then Kanye did the woo pop whatever that is maybe the intro Oh, yeah, the intro sounds very Kanye-ish like the speed of the speed of the speed of the big shine was signed to Kanye at the time So Kanye Fast Jack Jack on the track. All right. This is a tricky one Finally jack Music is so friendly for me Justin be me to know it. Yeah, I was like it's so friendly for me to know it's a fever and And low B. I'll show you my text from a little B. He's like I'm with beaver I'm with beaver man. I like you should he's like you got to listen to my beats now make beats now I think he made those beats the bass guy Peace to the bass guy You know that we know that voice we know that that's nipsy nipsy hustle right off the rip what's up with nipsy hustle nipsy hustle It's very influential uh-huh to his community into his fan base and to you know hip-hop in general came in preaching that independent Spirit he came in you know from the ground up You know self built and just was the kind of guy who um he always You know opening door for the next cat was like come on in let me show you how to get it Let me show you what you're doing wrong. Let me show you how to do it right. And he was just that kind of person It was like we all gonna make it. We're all gonna make it and you know Sometimes in this world we lose we lose the ones we really need we lose them that thing though Other people see that the next generation someone else may come on carry that legacy Yeah, well, that's the impact you can have what a nipsy legacy is big shoes to feel. I hope somebody goes for it Yeah, maybe not the whole thing but little pieces come on little pieces of nipsy come on We need to we need to vote trying to nipsy hustle up together come on y'all we can do it all right We're gonna go deep on the on the fun You think I noticed The group is called lakeside if I don't say it fast enough they gonna say it come on how about this one This is ltd function wow from the bay. Yeah It's a barrier song The layout california. Get out. Come on. I do know the song though. I was first. I was gonna say I thought it was on average white band. I love your own. I was like no, I don't think that and I just do the ltd It just got that ltd vibe give me like one or two Down the funky train that people should to listen just a real funk. Yeah, I would go Anything that says a Ohio players greatest hits. Yeah listen to that and just listen to the blend of funk and jazz We did you discover Ohio players at a very young age? He saw the album covers. I know all the album covers, but I don't know what their first album was. I probably um The first one I probably know is pain. Yeah, but then the first one I got to know was to skintide out. ♪ Skintide, skintide, wow ♪ ♪ Skintide, skintide ♪ - And that was from Nino on the Skintide Fire. Everything they did was just like. - That was the introduction. - Yeah. - Outstanding. - Yeah, I did pretty good. - You did really good. - You can give me all day with that friendly shit. - That fucking friendly shit, what are you doing today? - Today I am enjoying the city of New York. - Yeah, we're going around a lot of people, we spread in the gospel. - So too short, man. 2020-26, still rapping. - It is a complete album from Front to Back, produced by Little John, and it's funky. - Legend. Good to meet you. - Jack On The Track. (upbeat music)