Too $hort, Career Counselor

Eric Arnold:

But the afternoon's biggest surprise came when Todd Shaw — aka Too $hort, the most iconic Oakland rapper of all time — announced that he was moving back to "tha town" and joining the two-year-old East Oakland community center as a career counselor. $hort's remarks were met with cheers, and attracted favorable notice from San Francisco Chronicle columnist Chip Johnson four days later — yet also drew pointed criticism from one of Youth UpRising's most outspoken opponents.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 10, 2007 12:00 AM
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