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 mov.
