“Benzes rollin’, Beemers jettin’, and Caddies keep on dippin’ …”
When Oakland’s beloved Too $hort released one of the most iconic tracks of his “225,000 hours”-long rap career, “I Ain’t Trippin’,” it was 1989. Two years earlier, the cover of his fourth studio album, “Born to Mack,” featured $hort in a maroon 1984 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz. It would make numerous appearances in his ’90s music videos, and around the streets of Oakland itself.
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