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Bay Area rapper Too $hort is getting a portion of Foothill Boulevard in Oakland named after him as we speak (Saturday). The three-block stretch of Foothill Boulevard, between High Street and forty seventh Avenue, can be renamed \u201cToo $hort Way\u201d in honor of the rapper, who moved to Oakland from Los Angeles within the early Eighties together with his household and launched his 1983 debut LP Don\u2019t Stop Rappin\u2019<\/em> on the Oakland label 75 Girls Records And Tapes. <\/p>\n \u201cI have felt like I owe a debt to Oakland, and that nothing I do will ever repay it because of the life that I was given through Oakland,\u201d Too $hort instructed SFGATE<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s a few things that happened in my life that, if they didn\u2019t happen, Too Short wouldn\u2019t happen, and going to Fremont High is one of those things,\u201d he added. \u201cIt was like our home base; we\u2019d meet up at school and then we\u2019d go to the house and make tapes, then we\u2019d go out into the neighborhoods and sell the tapes.\u201d<\/p>\n Too $hort additionally stated about his legacy within the Oakland rap scene: \u201cI was standing up on a foundation that was already solid, it was already built. So I really had to uphold the legacy of Oakland and the bay. It wasn\u2019t like it was me who was starting this for the first time \u2014 big things had happened in the bay, it had a rich history. I\u2019m not taking it lightly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n