Mt. Westmore—the West Coast rap supergroup comprised of Too $hort, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and E-40—has shared a new single and accompanying video for "Too Big" featuring P-Lo. The track is taken from their debut album "Snoop, Cube, 40, $hort" (originally titled "Bad MFs"), which arrived exclusively via the metaverse in August.
In a recent interview with RAPstation's Kyle Eustice for ROCK THE BELLS, Short explained why it didn't immediately go to digital streaming platforms such as Apple Music and Spotify.
"We all are businessmen and each one of us brings something to the table that makes the group better,” $hort said. “That particular decision was made by Snoop Dogg at the time. He’d been very active in the metaverse and doing all kinds of NFT stuff and he had what we call a play in motion. He had a business deal that was easy to make happen. Some of the fans were expressing they were offended that we would drop music that they couldn’t get ahold of because they’ve been supporting us so long, but Snoop Dogg is a numbers kind of guy and he doesn’t really waste his time unless he’s getting paid good.
“He doesn’t even consider doing deals with people unless it comes in the door looking very lucrative to him. So even in this situation, he’s like, ‘I can get us a lot of money real quick.’ And it was just a decision made. Like, literally, if anybody was in my shoes, you would understand why it went down like that. We actually just worked the money play. The money was great. It had nothing to do with trying to frustrate the fans."
But fortunately for Mt. Westmore fans, that's about to change. Earlier this week, Mt. Westmore announced "Snoop, Cube, 40, $hort" would arrive on DSPs on December 9, bringing the long wait to an end. Those who were able to get their hands on a copy over the summer will recognize some of the tracks, but there will be some new additions.
“It’s pretty much a completely different project,” he said. “It has a different title. We’ve been shooting visuals for months for it. There’s a film that’s going to go with it. I think Ice Cube is putting together some kind of documentary. I really don’t know what it is he’s doing, but he’s putting together a bunch of visuals to be released with the project. It’s going to be fun."
Check out the "Too Big" video above.
