HipHollywood recently caught up with west coast legend Too $hort to discuss his upcoming projects. The Oakland icon said that he will be releasing 2 projects this year, one is an album with fellow California veteran E-40. He also revealed that he will be releasing a book in addition as well.

"I "m working on some new music," he said. "[I "ve got the] new Too Short album [and] the Too $hort/E-40 album, both of those should be out this, and I "m writing a book."

$hort Dog gave a few more details about his upcoming literary pursuit, saying that it will not be an autobiography. He did go on to describe the novel as "a Too $hort adventure."

"The book is a story that needs to be told," he said. "It "s not necessarily the Too $hort story, but I call it a Too $hort adventure. It "s been a lot of fun, and I need to tell it to somebody before I forget...I don "t really want to go that route [with an autobiography] and tell you my childhood. I just want to tell you the good parts."