Too Short recalled the time he turned down beats from Kanye West.
“I remember Scarface called me. He was in New York, he was like, ‘I got the coldest motherf*ckin’ producer.’ And you know what I told him? He was talking about Kanye West. You know what I told him? I was in Atlanta, I was like, ‘We got all the producers with me. I don’t need no new producers,'” Too Short told Vlad TV.
“And he was like, ‘I swear to God,’ I don’t remember the number and I don’t want to disrespect Kanye, but I swear he said, ‘He’s the coldest motherf*cker in the world out here in New York, he’s from Chicago.’ He told me his name, everything. He said, ‘$2,000 a beat. It’s the sh*t!’ And I was like, ‘Man, we got producers.'”
Even after Scarface sent the beats to him, Too Short refused to listen to them.
“I’ve done some dumb sh*t in my life, but that’s up there at the top of the list of dumb sh*t. Turning down young Kanye beats before the price went up,” he added. “I’m a music guy, I live around music guys! We didn’t need no f*ckin’ beats, but damn, if I would’ve knew. I didn’t have no damn psychic around me or a crystal ball. I didn’t know.”