Too Short recalls Tupac’s insanely fast writing process.
Too Short has been in the studio with legendary Tupac before his death, and the Bay Area rapper now recalls Makaveli’s insane rapid-fire writing process. Too Short had a conversation with HipHopDX at One Music Fest’s Day 2 in Atlanta, where he revealed about his time with Tupac in the studio.
“I know you’ve heard from a million people about Tuac, man. He wrote rhymes as fast as he could write words,” he began. “Like, I write a rhyme – I think about it, write it down. Think about it, write something that rhyme with it. Think about it, you know I’m writing a story, telling something and I’m writing.”
“But he just goes [mimics writing] and he’ll go, ‘Alright, I’m ready to go in the booth.’ Like what? He can’t be ready. And it’s just dope as f–k. So I don’t how his mind was working to be able to make such prolific statements in a rhyme and then go in and put a pattern to it. And it really wasn’t like he was going in the booth and f–king up — he’d just go in there and spit it.”
He continued, “So I don’t know, some people have the gift, you know? I saw my man Erick Sermon so many times like put on the beat, the beat bumping and he like, ‘Let me in the booth.’ Like you ain’t got a pen, paper, nothing. And he’d get in there and say some funky-a-s sh-t and I’m like, he just got it. Some people just got it.”
