There are unlikely matches, and then there’s “Let Them Hoes Fight.” Leaked online recently, the song is supposed to be the first single on Trina’s upcoming album, Amazin’, and features Lady Gaga. It’s definitely not a match-up I could have ever guessed at, but online buzz says that Gaga participated on the song right before she became a phenomenon. The track has been out for a couple weeks now, but Rap Up got a hold of producer Jim Jonsin to learn more about how the song came together.
“I was in the studio with a writer working on tracks and ideas for random artists and this girl came over,” he revealed. “She looked bugged out like she was out late the night before. It turned out it wasLady Gaga, and this was probably three months before ‘Just Dance’ came out and blew up.”
Gaga happened to be writing for another pop superstar when the song came to fruition. “I gave her some music and she went to work in a back room. I think she was writing an idea for Britney [Spears] and it was sick, so I grabbed her and brought her back in the room.”
“We started writing a song called ‘Freezer Burn’ and that song turned out really good, so we did another song called ‘Kaboom.’ We were playing the songs back, trying to figure out who to give them to.
It’s got some of the attitude a lot of people have come to associate with Gaga’s style, but the message doesn’t fully fit in with her messages or typical songwriting, probably a result of Trina getting in on the track later. To me, her collaboration with Beyonce for “Telephone” trumps this one, but listening to the tracks back-to-back shows how much the final product can change from collaboration to collaboration.
