Get in Where You Fit In

Get In Where You Fit In
Get In Where You Fit In
Studio album by Too Short
Released	October 26, 1993
Recorded	1992–1993
Studio	Dangerous
Genre	West Coast hip hop; gangsta rap; G-funk; dirty rap;
Length	1:12:18
Label	Jive
Producer	The Dangerous Crew; QD3;
Too Short chronology
Singles from Get In Where You Fit In
	"I'm a Player"; Released: September 27, 1993; "Money in the Ghetto"; Released: January 17, 1994;

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. The recording sessions took place at Dangerous Studios. The album was produced 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

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Robert Christgau	^[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B−^[2]
Rolling Stone	^[4]
The Source	^[5]

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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Don't Fight the Intro"	Todd Shaw	The Dangerous Crew	2:47
2.	"I'm a Player"	Shaw William Collins Gary Cooper George Clinton, Jr.	The Dangerous Crew	6:01
3.	"Just Another Day"	Shaw	QDIII	7:21
4.	"Gotta Get Some Lovin'"	Shaw Bill Curtis	Ant Banks	5:47
5.	"Money in the Ghetto"	Shaw	The Dangerous Crew	5:43
6.	"Blowjob Betty"	Shaw	The Dangerous Crew	5:26
7.	"All My Bitches Are Gone" (featuring Ant Banks)	Shaw Anthony Banks	Ant Banks	5:37
8.	"The Dangerous Crew" (featuring Spice 1, Ant Banks, Mhisani, and Pee Wee)	Shaw Robert Lee Green, Jr. Banks Mhisani Miller Ramone Gooden Clinton, Jr. DeWayne McKnight Pete Bishop	The Dangerous Crew	4:30
9.	"Get in Where You Fit In" (featuring Rappin' Ron and Ant Diddley Dog)	Shaw Russell Royster Anthony Nelson	The Dangerous Crew	8:34
10.	"Playboy $hort"	Shaw	Ant Banks	4:49
11.	"Way Too Real" (featuring Father Dom and Ant Banks)	Shaw Damani Khaleel Banks	Ant Banks	5:42
12.	"It's All Good" (featuring Ronese Levias)	Shaw Roniece Levias	The Dangerous Crew	6:02
13.	"Oakland Style" (featuring FM Blue)	Shaw FM Blue Sylvester Levay Stephan Prager	Ant Banks	4:47
Total length:				1:12:19

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

Charts

Chart (1993)	Peak position
US Billboard 200^[6]	4
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[7]	1

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)^[8]	Platinum	1,000,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

^ "Get In Where You Fit In - Too $hort | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
^ Ehrlich, Dimitri (November 19, 1993). "Get In Where You Fit In". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 18, 2021.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ Christgau, Robert. "Too Short". Robert Christgau. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
^ "Get In Where You Fit In : Too Short : Review : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. November 25, 1993. Archived from the original on November 11, 2007. Retrieved January 18, 2021 – via Wayback Machine.
^ Gordon, Allen S. "Tha Ebony Cat" (December 1993). "Record Report: Too Short – Get in Where You Fit In". The Source. No. 51. New York. p. 85. Archived from the original on December 11, 2010. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
^ "Too hort Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
^ "Too hort Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
^ "American album certifications – Too Short – Get In Where You Fit In". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved January 18, 2021.

External links

Too $hort – Get In Where You Fit In at Discogs (list of releases)

[1] "Get In Where You Fit In - Too $hort | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved January 18, 2021.

[2] Ehrlich, Dimitri (November 19, 1993). "Get In Where You Fit In". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 18, 2021.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[3] Christgau, Robert. "Too Short". Robert Christgau. Retrieved January 18, 2021.

[4] "Get In Where You Fit In : Too Short : Review : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. November 25, 1993. Archived from the original on November 11, 2007. Retrieved January 18, 2021 – via Wayback Machine.

[5] Gordon, Allen S. "Tha Ebony Cat" (December 1993). "Record Report: Too Short – Get in Where You Fit In". The Source. No. 51. New York. p. 85. Archived from the original on December 11, 2010. Retrieved September 20, 2024.

[ac_Billboard200_Too_hort-6] "Too hort Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved January 18, 2021.

[ac_BillboardRandBHipHop_Too_hort-7] "Too hort Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved January 18, 2021.

[United_StatesToo_ShortGet_In_Where_You_Fit_InalbumCertRef-8] "American album certifications – Too Short – Get In Where You Fit In". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved January 18, 2021.

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