Cocktails (album)

Cocktails is the ninth solo studio album by American rapper Too Short. It was released on January 24, 1995, via Jive Records—making it his sixth LP for the label. The recording sessions took place at Dangerous Music, at DARP Studios in Atlanta and at Battery Studios in New York. The album was produced by the Dangerous Crew, B. Turner and L.A. Dre. It features guest appearances from 2Pac, Ant Banks, Baby DC, Father Dom, Illegal, L.A. Dre, MC Breed, Old School Freddy B, and the rest of the Dangerous Crew.

Cocktails
Studio album by Too Short
Released	January 24, 1995 (1995-01-24)
Recorded	1994
Studio	Dangerous Music D.A.R.P. Studios (Atlanta, GA) Battery Studios (New York, NY)
Genre	Hip hop G-funk dirty rap
Length	1:07:35
Label	Dangerous Music Jive
Producer	Ant Banks B. Turner L.A. Dre Shorty B Spearhead X The Dangerous Crew Too Short
Too Short chronology
Get in Where You Fit In (1993) Cocktails (1995) Gettin' It (Album Number Ten) (1996)
Singles from Cocktails
"Cocktales" Released: 1994 "Paystyle" Released: 1995

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Los Angeles Times	[2]
Rap Pages	8/10[3]

The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 and atop of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, with the first-week sales of 101,000 copies in the US.^[4] It received Gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America on March 27, 1995, and was certified Platinum on January 6, 1997. Its lead single, "Cocktales", made it to number 69 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 43 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and number 3 on the Hot Rap Songs charts.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Ain't Nothing Like Pimpin'"	Todd Anthony Shaw Stuart Jordan Ramon Gooden Xavier Hargrove	The Dangerous Crew	6:46
2.	"Cocktales"	Shaw Jordan	Shorty B	6:06
3.	"Can I Get a Bitch" (featuring Ant Banks)	Shaw Anthony Banks	Ant Banks	5:12
4.	"Coming up Short"	Shaw Gooden Mhisani Miller	Pee-Wee	5:42
5.	"Thangs Change" (featuring Illegal and Baby D)	Shaw LaMorris Edwards Derek Coleman Jordan	Spearhead X Too $hort	6:07
6.	"Paystyle"	Shaw Jordan Gooden	The Dangerous Crew	5:44
7.	"Giving Up the Funk" (featuring The Dangerous Crew)	Shaw Banks Miller Gooden George Clinton William Collins	Ant Banks	5:14
8.	"Top Down"	Banks Miller	Ant Banks	5:07
9.	"We Do This" (featuring 2Pac, MC Breed and Father Dom)	Shaw Tupac Shakur Eric Breed Damani M. Khaleel Jordan Gooden	The Dangerous Crew	5:51
10.	"Game" (featuring Old School Freddy B and L.A. Dre)	Shaw Anthony Adams	L.A. Dre	5:16
11.	"Sample the Funk"	Shaw Greg Webster Marvin Pierce Bruce Napier Clarence Satchell Leroy Bonner Marshall Jones Ralph Middlebrooks Walter Morrison	Too $hort	6:54
12.	"Don't Fuck for Free"	Shaw Britton Turner Breed	Too $hort B. Turner	3:35
Total length:				1:07:35

Sample credits

• Track 7 contains a sample of "Disco to Go" written by George Clinton and William Collins and performed by the Brides of Funkenstein.
• Track 11 contains a portion of the composition "Funky Worm" written by Gregory Webster, Marvin Pierce, Bruce Napier, Clarence Satchell, Leroy Bonner, Marshall Jones, Ralph Middlebrooks and Walter Morrison.

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1995) Peak position US Billboard 200[5] 6 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[6] 1

Year-end charts Chart (1995) Position US Billboard 200[7] 134 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[8] 26

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[9]	Platinum	1,000,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

• List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1995