Too Short’s upcoming film, Freaky Tales, has a lot of star power, but it also carries the memory of the late Angus Cloud.
The film, which is an ode to Oakland, California, features one of Cloud’s last performances before his untimely death last year at the age of 25 following a drug overdose.
“He played a really good role,” Short told ET’s Deidre Behar at the 2024 BET Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. “And, you know, being that he’s from Oakland, it means a lot to me, and a lot of the people at the premiere that I went to are really touched by that because they knew him personally, they worked with him.”
Short, 58, and Cloud didn’t have a scene together. However, according to the “Blow the Whistle” rapper, viewers are going to be impressed with the work that he did in the film.
“It was an amazing performance,” he said. “So to his fans, you’re going to love it.”
Not much is known about the exact plot of the film, which also stars Tom Hanks and Pedro Pascal. However, Short broke it down to ET the best way he could — without giving too much away.
“It comes from– it’s kind of motivational from my music and my youthful career days in the ’80s,” he said about the film’s inspiration. “And what it is, a couple of the chapters — a few of the chapters — are named after my songs. It’s sort of a story that intertwines with other stories that happened in Oakland and one of the stories is my story of a situation that I was in with some female rappers. I don’t want to give away the movie, but it’s the kind of movie that I didn’t watch it until it was finished.”
He added, “You start off watching this movie and it just turns into something else in the middle of the movie, and then that something else is amazing. It’s a really good movie and when it happens to you, you’re going to tell somebody else about it, and it’s going to be one of those word-of-mouth things.”
The “Shake That Monkey” rapper also spoke about the connection he has with Hanks.
“Me and Tom Hanks, you know, he’s from Oakland also, [we’re] Oakland OG legends, so we just shared that kindred brotherhood of being from the same place,” he said.
Speaking of legendary, Short’s anthem, “Blow the Whistle,” will turn 20 in 2026, and the rapper is still riding the wave from the song’s classic status.
“I’ve never tried to make hit records,” he told ET. “I just try to make music, so when it happens and we knew it was hot when we made it, but in the next year, we didn’t know it would stay hot. Then 10 years later like… now we’re approaching ‘Blow the Whistle’s 20th anniversary.”
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