Get in Where You Fit In explained
| Get In Where You Fit In |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Too Short |
| Cover: | Too Short - Get in Where You Fit In.jpg |
| Recorded: | 1992 - 93 |
| Studio: | Dangerous |
| Label: | Jive |
| Prev Title: | Shorty the Pimp |
| Prev Year: | 1992 |
| Next Title: | Cocktails |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Get In Where You Fit In is the eighth solo studio album by American rapper Too Short. It was released on October 26, 1993, through Jive Records, making it his fifth release for the label. Recording sessions took place at Dangerous Studios. Production was handled by The Dangerous Crew and Quincy Jones III. It features guest appearances from Ant Banks, Ant Diddley Dog, Father Dom, FM Blue, Mhisani, Pee Wee, Rappin' Ron, Ronese Levias and Spice 1.
The album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on November 16, 1994.
Critical reception
Rolling Stone reviewer gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, stating: "on his fifth album, Get In Where You Fit In, Short plays his usual blaxploitation character, only he ain't battlin' the man, he's on his way to get some. Between "I'm a Player", "Playboy Short" and "Blow Job Betty", Short sounds like he's getting more than Shaft, Sweet Sweetback and Superfly combined". Dimitri Ehrlich of Entertainment Weekly found that: "In Get In Where You Fit In, Oakland rapper seems to be operating on mental cruise control as he recounts gratuitous tales of life as a player in the streets and bedrooms of his hometown. Producer Ant Banks' antiseptic assemblages lack all the grit of the original recordings from which they were sampled. The result? N.W.A redux meets P-Funk lite". AllMusic reviewer wrote: "Although he tries to cop part of the current P-Funk-inspired gangsta rap, Too Short sounds lost and dated on the overlong, sample-reliant, grotesquely misogynist, and musically muddled Get in Where You Fit In". Veteran critic Robert Christgau gave the album a "neither" rating.
Track listing
- Sample credits
- Track 1 contains a sample of "Don't Fight the Feelin'" written by Kevin McCord and performed by One Way
- Track 2 contains a sample of "Hollywood Squares" written by William Collins, Gary Cooper, and George Clinton, Jr., and performed by Bootsy Collins
- Track 3 contains a sample of "Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll" written by Gregory Bufford, Jerome Bell, and Vaughn Mason, and performed by Vaughn Mason & Crew
- Track 4 contains a sample of "Love Spell" written by Bill Curtis and performed by Fatback Band
- Track 5 contains a sample of "Hollywood Swinging" performed by Kool and the Gang
- Track 6 contains a sample of "Ring the Alarm" written by Clive Bright and performed by Tenor Saw
- Track 7 contains a sample of "Shameless" written by Jean Roussel, Martin Simon, Tony Colton, and Wilson Pickett, and performed by Wilson Pickett
- Track 8 contains a sample of "Freak of the Week" written by George Clinton Jr., DeWayne McKnight, and Pete Bishop, and performed by Funkadelic
- Track 13 contains a sample of "Heart of Stone" written by Sylvester Levay and Stephan Prager, and performed by Silver Convention
Personnel
- Todd "Too $hort" Shaw – main artist, mixing
- Anthony "Ant" Banks – featured artist (tracks: 7, 8, 11), keyboards, drum programming, producer, mixing
- Robert Lee "Spice 1" Green, Jr. – featured artist (track 8)
- Mhisani "Goldy" Miller – featured artist (track 8)
- Ramone "Pee Wee" Gooden – featured artist (track 8)
- Russell "Rappin' Ron" Royster – featured artist (track 9)
- Anthony "Ant Diddley Dog" Nelson – featured artist (track 9)
- Leslie Calaway – featured artist (track 10)
- Damani "Father Dom" Khaleel – featured artist (track 11)
- Roniece Levias – featured artist (tracks: 10, 12)
- FM Blue – featured artist (track 13)
- Stuart "Shorty B" Jordan – lead guitar & bass (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13)
- Stan "The Guitar Man" Jones – guitar (track 3)
- Ramon "Pee-Wee" Gooden – keyboards, live drums
- Quincy Jones III – keyboards & producer (track 3)
- Sean G – drums (tracks: 5, 10)
- Kirk Felton – digital editing
- Rob Chiarelli – engineering (track 3)
- Tom Coyne – mastering
- Nick Gamma – design
- Victor Hall – photography
- Randy Austin – management
See also
- List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1993
