Too $hort has received an Oakland Street named “Too $hort Way” in the area’s Foothill Boulevard, where the rapper lived in the 1980s.

Too $hort has been honored with his own street in Oakland. On Sunday (December 11), the rapper was honored with “Too $hort Way” in the three-block stretch of Foothill Boulevard, between High Street and 47th Avenue in East Oakland. The location is just outside of Fremont High School which Short, real name Todd Anthony Shaw, attended after relocating from Los Angeles in the 1980s. Those in attendance of the street naming event were Shaw’s fellow Mount Westmore member Ice Cube, Mistah F.A.B. and Sway Calloway.

“I have felt like I owe a debt to Oakland, and that nothing I do will ever repay it because of the life that I was given through Oakland,” Too $hort told SFGate. “There’s a few things that happened in my life that, if they didn’t happen, Too $hort wouldn’t happen, and going to Fremont High is one of those things. It was like our home base; we’d meet up at school and then we’d go to the house and make tapes, then we’d go out into the neighborhoods and sell the tapes.