At first glance, Too $hort and Tom Hanks are two names you wouldn’t associate with one another. According to Too $hort, those ties brought the pair together under serendipitous circumstances, with Hanks making a cameo in the 2024 film Freaky Tales. “People don’t know Tom Hanks is from Oakland, California,” $hort tells VIBE of the unlikely connection. It was Sir Too $hort before I dropped the Sir and just went with the Too $hort that everybody knows. I don’t really go chasing after the biggest name producers necessarily, just the funky producers.