OAKLAND, Calif. — Among the many intimate encounters detailed by Too $hort on the iconic late-1980s hip-hop track “Freaky Tales” is a raunchy escapade that took place in the back of the “Foothill bus, #43.”
Before it was discontinued, the bus line would bring the rapper to Fremont High School down Foothill Boulevard, where soon a three-block stretch could be named Too $hort Way in honor of the legendary Oakland artist.
The commemorative street renaming is up for consideration Tuesday by the Oakland City Council at the request of Mayor Libby Schaaf and Councilman Noel Gallo, as well as friends and admirers of the 5-foot-7 rapper, who is known around the region as the “Godfather of the Bay.”
