Lady Gaga lives to shock. She did it again Sunday night at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards with a run through "Applause" that had her changing costumes six times during her performance.
But she also made jaws drop on the red carpet before the show, during an interview with MTV News' Sway when she revealed that she's hooked up with one of his Bay Area brethren on a song for ARTPOP. When Swayasked if Gaga was working with any rappers on the album she said she'd actually hooked up with Oakland icon Too $hort.
"I'll give you one ... Too $hort," Gaga told a surprised-looking Sway when he asked if there would be any hip-hop guests on her album.
That's all she revealed, though, so we hopped on the phone with Shortdog on Sunday night to find out how this unexpected hook-up happened.
"I was doing some songs last year with one her producers, DJ White Shadow," $hort said about tunes he's recorded with Shadow for a house music project he's been working on. "He's been pretty busy, doing his thing around the world and he got back at me a little while ago and said, ''There's a song that Lady Gaga's doing that possibly they would want to get you on ... so I said, s--- I'm down with it!'"
Soon after, the session was booked in Los Angeles and $hort got in the booth and laid his verse down, just like that. "Then he called back and was like, 'She's going to debut the song at one of her shows' and I'm like,'s--- I'm there!'" $hort isn't sure which show Gaga is going to premiere the song at, but she has promised to play songs from ARTPOP at the iTunes festival on September 1.
