The Real Report - 50 Cent's director Eif Rivera tells WILD 'Power' & Fat Joe beef stories

21:44Who shit bombed? Nah, I'm not going to say no name.

21:48Tony Yayo:We ain't going to do that. Yeah, we ain't going to do that. But you know, they go for music videos and they make these films and they bomb, right? Like, they do bad. I'm talking about cats who had$10 million, cats who got up to$80,$90 million back then, and the movie just flopped. Y 'all know who y 'all are. There's a few of them, right? And so when you start taking shots, too, each of the few of them. I mean, it's reality. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They ain't doing how you did it, Eve. Nah, so I came in late, right? And what I'm saying, I came in late because I'm much older. Yeah, because you had the Benny Booms.

22:24Tony Yayo:You had a couple of dudes. Yeah, all these cats. Yeah, the Hypes, the Chris Robinson, all of them. Shout out to all of them, right? But we could say Belly was a classic, though. It's a classic, but. He never did another one after that, though. That was just, Belly was a classic. And it was shot in Queens, shot to Rockdale. But the way Hollywood looks at things, and shout out to Hype, right? The way Hollywood looks at things, it's like, okay, if we spend this amount of money, we want to see the return. And what do we want to see? Profit. It's a business. How much you think they spent on Bouton?

22:52Tony Yayo:I don't know. I don't know. You know what I mean? But just give me a figure of what you would think. It wasn't that expensive. Back then, I don't know. I mean, that's back in shit. Because you could make a classic without a lot of money. Back then, Bouton was getting robbed also, so you don't even know. I don't even know. I honestly can't even speak on that. But that's the thing. It's a business. Right. So when you get a cat like me to come in and all they see is a trillion, you know, 50 cent videos and then I got videos, you know what I mean? Like what really started making Hollywood, especially like the agencies calling me up, was when I got to a level where the video is a lot crispier and clean.

23:27I started kind of telling little stories into the video, like without dialogue. I started adding little narrative pieces. So I think, like, I got signed to my agents once the Cardi B joint dropped out. I like it like that. That shit got, like, 1.6 billion views right now, right? Wow. And so, because that was, like, clean story, whatever. But by then, I'm already, like, learning how to play with shit. You know what I mean? And so, but, you know, the challenge is you go there and you meet these people in Hollywood. And they're on some, they'll bring it up. they'll be like well you come from music videos and we had this person that person this person um you know do a movie and it flop so what make you different right like how are you gonna be different and make us money so what i try to do is i try to not mention those names and i go for names like there was this cat who used to do a lot of little kim videos that you would think his hype.

24:26It wasn't hype. It was his cat named Francis Lawrence. Francis Lawrence went off. His first movie out the gate was Constantine. They did I Am Legend. Then he did the Mockingbird, the Mockingjay films, whatever that was. So you're like, I want to be that cat.

24:41Tony Yayo:I showed you an example of somebody that did this. Not with the hype name. And then you also got David Fincher. Like a monster director, right? Monster. David used to do videos. What videos he used to do? Madonna, a bunch of cats. He used to do music videos. That's crazy because I always thought it was just Jesse Toreb, the Toreb brothers, you, Benny Boom. And Hype. And Hype. I didn't even know there was other dudes. He had Lil X too. Lil X too. Yeah, but you know. But Lil X did a movie too, you know? Yeah, he did. Because he did one of our videos. Superfly. A word? I didn't even know that. When the dude had the perm, right?

25:18And he did, I think now he's doing a lot of TV stuff too. So shout out to him for doing that because it ain't easy.

25:25Tony Yayo:Definitely. You know what I'm saying? Definitely. And so, but you know, that's the thing. So with Powell, with Fifth, like for two years, Lionsgate and Stars, they just saw me as the dude next to Fifth all the time. Like they couldn't figure it out. Right. And they would call me in for meetings. And I'd sit in a meeting and they'd just be looking at me. I'd be looking at them. Wow. Like, so what do you do? Like, we see you with Fifth. because Fifth used to have me come into they used to have meetings with the execs and the actors and Fifth would be like, come on. I'd be like, nah, I shouldn't be in there.

25:59Tony Yayo:Right. I was like, that ain't like, you know what I mean? And I'm thinking like I'm not even. Fifth wants you in there soaking up the game. So he was there. So Fifth was like, listen, you see anybody bringing anybody else in here? He was like, no. He was like, I'm the boss. You come through because I want them to see when they see you, they see me. When they don't see me around, they still see me through you. That's crazy. So he was like, I want you to get that power. Right? Even to the point where he had me dealing with the CEO of stars. Like, I'd be like, yo, go chill with him. Go chill with him and go get your shit.

26:32If they're going to give you money, go get it. But it took a while to get there because, like, you know, like I said, the first one was Ghost, right? Power Ghost. And they was mad. They was, like, really trying to fuck with me. You know what I mean? when I came on set, like the crew said to me, and they told me private the next day, but the first day I was there, it was all acting funny style. And then...

26:55Tony Yayo:Who was acting for the crew? The actors, you mean? Some of the producers, the crew, like, you know, the camera crew. Okay, all right, got you, got you. So the word was, one day I needed, I was getting driven home and somebody needed a ride who lived next to me. So I was like, yeah, come on, like, you can hop in the van with me. And he starts telling me like, yo, you know, this is how they, how they pitch you to us. So he was like, there was like 50 cameramans going to shoot the next episode. Oh. Oh. Right. What the fuck? So it was like 50s camera guy. Like I was just, you know what I mean? Just a regular camera guy.

27:28Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you never did anything else. So then when they saw, like I knew everything. Because what I was doing was when they were shooting Power, I would go to set and watch how they do it. Then I started taking acting classes so I could understand actors because I was like, yo, this is, they bugged out. So I started doing that And I started just soaking You actually went and took acting classes? Yeah, yeah For like a couple of days Like nothing crazy Okay, alright This is something to know Okay Yeah, so then But that helped me When I was ready Then I went in And they saw The crew saw it It was like, yo They portrayed you to be this And you not that Like you really Know your shit

28:04Tony Yayo:Because they felt you didn't have the resume yet Now you have the resume Yeah, because Everybody Everybody respected But that just goes to show you Like how they look at hip hop Yeah, you tell people Keep hustling, keep grinding so you know what I mean I did that and then after that was For Life right? Yeah For Life and FBI even that ABC ABC is owned by that was big right there man that was a good move man that was big so ABC and Disney was like hell no it was like what he done it was like one episode of Ghost and it wasn't even out yet it was like we got nothing to say this nigga's not Marcos Chris ABC who is he so they was like no They kept pushing back.

28:44The producers were like, nah, let him do it. We believe in him. And then Fifth made a call, too. Like, yo, y 'all telling us it's the number one show. If y 'all letting us do our thing, let us do our thing. We're telling you this dude is ready. Like, he already did one. He know what he's doing. I go off. I do that. And it's the only episode that got put in at the end of the season for an Emmy and Best Director. It was the best episode.

29:10Tony Yayo:Right. And from that point on, like, every time I do something, it gets put in for Emmys. You know what I mean? Like, they know, like, and the actors will tell you. They'll be like, nah, this dude, he know how to talk to actors, and he know how to work the camera, like, how to deal with the crew. People want to know, like, you know, a lot of people in the hood want to be actors now because of 50. Everybody run up to me. Everybody got scripts. They want to know, like, what it takes to be a good actor, not just acting, but how do you portray yourself on set? like being on time and stuff like that not smoking on set or getting drunk or it's all regimen right like it's crazy because I show up to 7th like how does your day start I'm gonna tell you like I would come to set and 5th will be there before me like 5th is a different type of animal like I don't bro we don't start to 7th 5th is there at 5th 5 in the morning yeah we ain't surprised we ain't surprised we got a show we there 4 or 5 hours before the show starts so you look at that and you go man And I got to be, if you want it, you got to really, really, really, right?

30:14For sure. So the point is, in talking to these younger cats that want to come in and want to act and all that, just keep doing it, man. Take acting classes. You know what I mean? Sharpen the skills. And if you ain't got money, just keep acting and do it with family and friends. Act it out. Like, you ever see them videos, like the little African kids, where they be acting and shooting and replicating? And then they start dancing, and then they get busy. Nah, they get busy. So if you start acting and just doing scenes, do small scenes. You know what I'm saying? Like somebody just gave me something the other day, and it was like they made a short.

30:52It was like 20 minutes, whatever. Fifth went crazy. He about to do the deal.

30:58Tony Yayo:Right. I wonder if that's the same thing. He said that's something related to New York with some, like, what's going on kind of vibe right now. Yeah, exactly. YN or whatever. Yes, yes, the YNs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He actually sent that to me. Yeah, yo, yeah. So that's what I'm saying. It's dope. It's definitely dope, yeah. But it's cats that took it upon themselves, right? They shot it. They put their own. They shot it. They put together. They put their own bread for it, right? Nothing crazy to put their own bread. And they went and they did it, man. So it's like, and there's so many outlets, right?

31:27So if you really want to do it, man, put your shit on YouTube. Put it on Vimeo, whatever. all these little sites like for example vimeo even youtube you get subscriber base right just put it out there be like yo just subscribe it's 99 cents or whatever now you're making money off of it too right or you could do the uh the other way where it's like if people believe in you you do the whatever that thing is called um like a crowd crowd um crowd participation yeah like

31:54Tony Yayo:right so you you can put up money man you gotta tell these why and if you come on set don't drink don't smoke. Just because you're playing a gangster part don't mean you got to be gangster on set. I don't see actors who play gangsters but then when they turn off the cameras they're super nerds. Look at that. And I think you get dudes who are nerds that become actors and all of a sudden now they think they that. Yeah because you got to understand when you're outside they're going to fuck with They're going to see you as that. Give us one of the wildest moments you've seen behind scenes. What, on video?

32:37Tony Yayo:Video or movie. Because I met my video one time. You saw it with me in Future. You was actually about to probably shoot one of these wild ones. I forgot. We're not going to talk about that right now. It was actually a popular artist, too. We ain't going to talk about that one. Eve didn't know who they was. And I guess they wasn't really familiar with who Eve was. And it was about to get left. Yeah, they got mad. So I said, yo, what's up with this dancing nigga? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was popular. I didn't know because, you know, sometimes you, see, that's the thing. Sometimes you kind of, you black out because all you see, like, you get tunnel vision, right?

33:13And you just there to work. So, like, the first time I did power, I came on a block. We was outside. Yo, when I tell you I was in a van driving down, I seen block after block with all the trucks. like all the equipment and I got to set and it's like 200 people looking at you and the actors staring at you right what we doing the producer look at you what we doing y 'all I swear to God that first moment I shit myself I was like crazy so you was nervous super nervous right and then what I thank God it seemed was inside a car so I was like yo guys just get in the car but I was really sheltering myself.

33:55And then I spoke to them just to get it out of my system. And then once I did that, then it was a go after that. It was, you know what I mean? Damn, man. But I think, you know. That's a real story right there. Yeah, no, it's crazy, man. We talk about the movie. I'll tell you another story with that one. But, you know, for these young cats, man, you know, and the wildest shit is like, the shit that suck is when you get the opportunity and you fuck it up. And you fuck it up. Yeah, you drop the ball. That's the biggest thing, right? Because us as black and brown people, we don't get a lot of opportunities.

34:25Of course. You know what I mean? Especially in Hollywood. Especially in Hollywood. You got a brother like Fifth. You know what I mean? I've gotten those things where it's like, yo, are you sure you don't want to do these type of shows? And I'm like, I'm cool over here because I'm building with my people. Of course. So I don't need to go do those other shows just for the awards. I don't. I'm good. Right, right. You know what I'm saying? But again, it's like if you get that opportunity, man, don't fuck it up by taking your money and you're going to be sleeping with a thousand strippers and getting high.

34:59Right. And whatever, coming to sit drunk and smoking and all that. Like, you just, come on, man. Nobody want that. You need to work. You know what I mean? Do your 10 hours or whatever. Definitely. Nine hours. Work. Do your thing. Go do that shit afterwards. Right. You know what I mean? But you got to be on point, man. Like, this shit is so hard.

35:17Tony Yayo:You know what I wanted to ask you? How do you think directing changed from like 2005 to 2025 like now? How do you think it changed? When you say change, like. Better shit, nigga. No, no. When you're saying like what we see now versus like, I mean, I think it's changing because there's more of us getting involved, right? When I say us, again, black and brown people, we're really taking it serious and really trying to learn the craft. Ryan Coogler and all these other cats, right? Man, you see them, and that inspires you, right? What's my man that did Sinners? Ryan Coogler. Yeah, what else he did?

35:59Tony Yayo:He did Creed, he did Black Panther, 1 and 2. He did Fruitvale Station was his first joint. He worked with Michael B. Jordan a lot. I guess they kind of do everything together. I seen him crying because Sinners did real good. First week, a lot of millions. I seen he was tearing up. Nah, because what it is, I mean, the deal he worked on with that movie where, because remember he did Black Panther, Creed and all that. He made them billions. Now he's doing Sinners. He owns it. After 25 years, his deal, he owns the movie. So now that's a legacy. That's for his kids. He owns all of them movies. He owns Sinners No, he don't own Black Pants.

36:44He don't own Black Pants. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now I was just confused. So now he owns it. It's like a record deal. So now he own it. So after 25 years, and in his deal, I think he get like first dollar once they make their gross. Whatever their budget was. Boom. He gets the first dollar. That's dope. Shout out to him, man. Which ain't normal. You know what I mean? But that's what I'm saying. You do shit like that. That's power.

37:06Tony Yayo:Right. So now you start like, okay, how do I? That helps me. Right. Help the next guy. So you feel like that's what drives your creativity? Because that's what I was going to ask. Murder's trying to ask all the fucking questions. For me, nah, nah, nah, nah. What drives your creativity? Nah, I think, listen, man, I think for me the creativity is I went to art school, right? I went to art and design. And like I said, I was always into graffiti and shit like that, comic books and all that. And so I could draw. I could draw like a motherfucker. Like I could, you know what I mean? You know, I did the Air Pun logo for Pun back then.

37:39I used to do a bunch of logos. You did that logo for Pun? I did that Pun. I did the snowman for Jeezy. Back then, I was doing a lot of it. Nah, nah. You did the snowman for Jeezy? That's crazy. Yeah, and I did a bunch of other ones. Jeezy mentioned in his book when I made the snowman. That's what I was doing back then. Album covers, logos for cats. So I was always into the...

38:08Tony Yayo:So you made the snowman? Yeah, with Jeezy. and Ashana. It just said it's in Jeezy Book, bro. No, I'm just saying it. It was Ashana, that jam. Who made this happen? Me. Yeah, yeah. Shout out to JP and Marcus, man. You know what I mean? Yeah, shout the team out, man. Yeah, shout the team out, man. Not you. You know what I mean? But the creativity, man, I think it just comes from like just being out, seeing everything, living life. You know what I mean? Well, talk about that. You got something that you're working on, that Castro. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We just finished that. We about to... Oh, it's finished.

38:42it's about 98 % done. It's just a lot of the VFX and shit.

38:46Tony Yayo:You know, DJ Khaled got something to do with that. I seen him post it on the ground. Yeah, yeah. You didn't know that? I didn't know that. Look, everything you tell. Why you want to bring that up? No, because I was talking to him the other day, and I'm like, I could never be mad at Khaled because his loyalty was to Joe, and my loyalty was to 50 at the same time. You know what I'm saying? So even if we still love - Cal is going to have to sit down and talk about you. Like, nah, even if we don't talk, because, you know, it's cool. It's Joe. Everything is cool. It's peace. Nobody got hurt. No bullets fly.

39:19Tony Yayo:Nothing happened. So that's the best part of it. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's just little old war stories that, you know. Eif, I think you need to make that happen. Nah, Cal, listen, man. You and Cal and Ye-Yo talk. We're going to make that happen. Cal is my brother, man. Like, you know. So he did play a part with the cast, Joe? So I started this movie, right? Before I got it, it was through Romulus Entertainment. And before I got it, it was another director attached. Wasn't the right person, right? Like, it was just, it wasn't working out. So I came in and I cast, you know, like the movie, like within two weeks.

39:53Like we already had all the actors, you know what I mean? And one of them being Al Pacino.

39:58Tony Yayo:Right. So. Wow. Not everybody could get Al Pacino for the record. Not the first time. Yeah, just for the record. I just saw an interview with, I think it was Scorsese. somebody said it took him years him and Al years to finally do something together and I was like damn I did it and it was just timing which was crazy you know what I mean but yeah so like we wrote this part you know the writer Tommy and a couple of the cats and you know we kind of tweaked it to be Al like how Al would do it and so we sent it to his agents and he was interested right so he was like yo this is the first time I'm saying it like tell you this man appreciate having me but yo so he read it and he wanted to meet with me right so um like a half hour meet him and see what he's about so nigga I'm shitting for like a week straight nervous about to meet Al Patino yeah yeah I'm like I'm sure when you say you nervous cause it's like you know that's the humbling part about it it's like how you said you were scared on your first shoot mad people outside this is way different than a fucking video.

41:04Tony Yayo:You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, it was, I mean, you know, the funny thing is when you meet these different artists, even back then, like with Fifth, you know, I was nervous. Like, you know what I mean? Like the big dogs, you know what I mean? Like, but with him, you know what I mean? Like, this is life changing. So I went to the restaurant where he wanted to meet and I get there like a half hour early because I'm like, let me just chill out. I drank like, you know, 40 cups of coffee by now. I was, and I go to sit down. and I put my bag down. First I go in, I'm like, who you here? Reservations.

41:39I was like, Alfred Pacino. Literally under his name. So I go in the back and I put my bag down and shit. And all of a sudden I hear, there he is. And I turn around, it's fucking out right behind me. He's right there. He coming in. I'm like, oh shit. Nah, this is different. Come on, bro. We be starstruck. Yeah, I was like, yo, but you know you gotta be cool. So he sat down. And I remember I'm texting the producer under the table like, where you at? Because, you know, I need a backup. I was like, I'm here dolo with this cat. Where you at? He's trying to get there. But we talking. And, you know, it was crazy because he started naming all the directors he ever worked with.

42:21Like, he was throwing it in my face. He's like, yo, so you heard of Martin Scorsese? You heard of, you know, Michael Mann? He just kept name-dropping. name of these big dudes. You're like, of course I heard of them. And I'm like, yeah. But I know what he was doing. And so he started telling me stories. He started off with Serpico. So he's like, you know, when I did Serpico, you know, back then, you know, he was saucy, whatever he was doing. And see, you know, he woke up and he had a joint next to him. And he was like, I know I do nothing because she was still dressed or whatever, right? and then his phone was ringing and he had to go to premiere he's like yo so it was crazy I gotta go to premiere and I'm like I'm still saucy and while he's telling me yeah I'm saucy this and that and then so scene 49 when I'm walking down the hallway could you explain that to me I said oh shit he's doing the vet actor shit like actors do that they be mad cool with you joking and all that and then all of a sudden they...

43:27That's crazy. No, Fifth done that shit to me. Like, Fifth would be like, yo, we be talking the night before, like, what we doing? The next morning, he's dead serious. He goes, what we doing? Why the fuck we doing that? Like, and I'd be like, yo, my man, what's going on here? Right, right. But it's a different, you know, we working now.

43:47Tony Yayo:Definitely. I'm not your man no more. This is work. I'm not your man no more. So he went into, like, the scene, and I was like, oh, shit. But I knew the script inside out. So I was like, yeah, this is what happens. Boom, boom, boom. Then he started talking about Scarface. Yo, you know, when I did Scarface, you know, they killed me for that. Like the critics, people calling me. That's my favorite. I watched that over a thousand times. I'm going to get to that. So look, he says it almost destroyed his career. They killed him for that. I mean, who? His peers and things of that nature? Peers, people, great.

44:25Hollywood that was like, what you doing? He leaned in and he grabbed my forearm. Right? Put your own forearm. He said like this to me. Grab my arm. He said, the first time y 'all hearing this, first time I'm saying it publicly. He said, you know who saved my life? I said, who? The rappers. The rappers saved my life. Wow. Wow. Wow. Rappers. Wow. Yo, and I looked at him right there like.

44:57Tony Yayo:Wow, look at that. So I think a piece of that, I was like, he had to see my work. He knew I come from videos. I could only imagine his people with agency, whatever. You're talking about an Academy Award winner. Yo, don't post this place until this come out. Like who? Like who? No, I don't think you need to be working with him, Al. But because of his experiences, it got you. I think he said, nah, nah, nah. I got to get back. I'm going to do this. I'm going to give him this shot. I'm going to give him a shot. And, bro, he said that, and I was like, oh, shit. Right? And then we just kept talking about the movie and shit like that.

45:35I always had a vision. I was telling the producer, Brad, I was like, yo, when Al come on set, we got a scene outside. It's going to be doing it during the summertime.

45:44Tony Yayo:Right. It's going to be hot. So for whatever reason, like, because I'm sort of spiritual, for whatever reason I said yo I'm going to get them beach chairs like that Jay-Z photo when he's in the projects on the beach chair I said I'm going to get two of those chairs and I'm going to sit down with Al and eat ice cream. I don't know why I was thinking about that. Ice cream. It was like yo you crazy like what the fuck is wrong? Yo we sitting down at the restaurant after we talked about work. He said you hungry? Let's get some fries. man also he's ordering mad food that we eating i didn't even realize you know how when you go to catch or whatever and they bring you to play the ice cream and everybody just take their spoons bro that's what we was doing towards the end we eating ice cream i didn't realize you've said my vision came to life yo i know you know the the producer we go outside we walk out to his car and he's like congratulations you had your ice cream with al yeah al pacino listen you got al Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, bro.

46:47Tony Yayo:Them two right there, it's just classic shit for everybody. Scarface, Carlito's Way, Heat. The list goes on and on. So just to be sitting there with Al Pacino, bro, that's come on, bro. Now, listen, he's from the BX. So we hit it off crazy. We tell him that. Oh, he's from the Bronx? I never knew that. I definitely never knew that. He wish he was from Brooklyn, though. Queens versus Brooklyn. But he from the BX, so we talked a lot about that. and he would say to me like, yo, I'm doing this book. Like, you and me should just go drive around the Bronx so I can reminisce. And I'm like, yo, whenever you're ready.

47:22Oh, shit. Like, we clicked. Look at that. That's dope. He'd be like, yo, if I'm not shooting, can I come to set just to hang out? I was like, yeah. So I had him for like 10 days or something like that. And we were prepping the office. He's a funny dude. And he would look at me and be like, yo, you know Bad Bunny? And I was like, yeah. I worked with him. He said, oh, he's dope. What about The Weeknd? You know, Weeknd? Yo, he was intrigued. Really into that. He's into that.

47:51Tony Yayo:I think the first thing I would ask Al Pacino was like, how the fuck do you just act like that? Like Scarface? Yeah. I cover you real nice. Like, how the fuck? Yeah, yeah. Come on, bro. That was like classic shit, bro. Like, you know I would ask him, first of all, all about Scarface. Because that's my hands down. But look, I shot him out. Mm-hmm. When I rapped him out, because I think he was 82, 83, just had a baby. He just had a baby. I was just about to say that. He just had a baby. Shout out to Al Pacino. Congratulations, man. He still had that baby. Congratulations. He had a lot going on, right?

48:24He came to work every day, man. I think people are going to really bug out when they see his performance. He killed it. And we had this thing, man. We had a language. So he was doing one scene, and we were always talking about stickball. So in the BX played stickball. So every Bronx, every neighborhood in New York has two sewers. So when you're playing on one end of the sewer and you hit it to the next block, then you're hitting the third and fourth sewer. So he'd be like, you ever hit three sewers? I was like, yeah. Sometimes the ball would go on the roof, right? That's crazy. So when we was doing the scene, I was like, I would yell across the room.

49:04and he was doing a scene like he, when he was against Robert and he was sitting out at the table and I yelled, I said, Al, give me three sewers. And he'd be like three sewers coming up, baby. Like, you know, he was on point. So the last time, like the last year I had him, we wrapped him out. We wrapped. I got home like at midnight.

49:26Tony Yayo:Just so y 'all clear, we talking about my guy, East Rivera's movie Castro with Al Pacino. Killing cash Starring Al Pacino So go ahead I got home at midnight after I wrapped him out Yo and I just sat on my workout bench And I cried for two hours God bless you man Two hours B Because I'm going to tell you why I'm going to tell you why I'm going to tell you why though What I was saying before about Hollywood Now the meetings are different You understand? Now when I sit there, they can't look at me and be like, who you work with? Can you handle this acting? Can you handle that? Yeah, it's a little different now.

50:10So you sit there and it's the confidence. Because now you go, look, y 'all only got two. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, the living legend. I mean, you got a few others, but that's still active. There's plenty, but you know.

50:22Tony Yayo:We can say Arnold Schwarzenegger and a whole bunch of other names. Yeah, right. So now you sit there and you go, y 'all threw one at me right the universe threw one at me dealt with it he loves me hit him up hit up his whole team they're gonna tell you right what you gonna tell me now now what you know what I'm saying but it's always a challenge it's always something new you know what I mean even like for you to get the next thing that well we gotta see what you did right resume it don't it don't is you know it's hard You did that, man. That's dope. How they would have filmed as a tricky business, man.

51:01Tony Yayo:What would you tell the next young director coming out of New York? What advice would you have for them?

51:12Learn as much as you can. It's okay to look at everybody else's work and try to copy it and try to figure out how they did it. You know what I mean? So you can learn how the camera works, look at the angles, look at the lighting and all that, right? But also, like, just keep shooting, bro. Like, keep shooting. And even if you want to get into TV or something like that or commercials, right, or even music videos, like, I tell people all the time, you want to get into commercials, do a Pepsi commercial. How? I don't have no agent. I have nothing. Yeah, how do you do that? You go get a Pepsi bottle.

51:45You go write a scene out. And you shoot it. Wow. And it's a spec. That's what you call a spec commercial. So now you shot it, and they're like, oh, you did this? This never aired? Nah, but it's a spec

51:58Tony Yayo:How much is my check for the commercial I'm just thinking Don't be surprised I see a Yaya shooting the Pepsi commercial Now you get picked up by an agency And Pepsi really wants you to do it I think that A going rate for a director to do A commercial Is usually like$25 ,000 a day Oh, shit Yeah, so like You ready? Who is a Pepsi? But you know what I'm saying? But it's the same thing. You go shoot a short. Go shoot the homies. Go shoot a scene like somebody got cancer, AIDS, or whatever. Shoot that and show the emotions and that. Right. You know what I mean? What happens? Just make it up. Whatever.

52:43Just write it. Make it up. Shoot it.

52:44Tony Yayo:Real life shit, yeah. Yeah, and then just send it out. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, you're not just standing around with a camera. Ain't gonna do nothing. Like, waiting for work. No, that's a good idea. Yeah, I never knew that was that easy to just push a commercial. You know what I'm saying? It's called a spec. Pay attention, people. Get your money up. You know what I'm saying? But for me, I started with the camera, like I said, shooting cats. And I loved it, man. I just kept going and kept going and kept going until, you know what I mean? I think my first video, going back to Fifth, was when he did the Alicia Keys and Dre joint.

53:21And he said to me, I'm going to tell you right now. He kept it real. I'm gonna tell you right now you ain't gonna get this they don't know you and a scope don't know you They're not gonna give you the money, but I'm gonna give you these records off my album. You're gonna do these for real And I was like, oh shit, and that was my gateway look at that through fifth I got into Interscope and then we started doing videos that's crazy cuz 50 don't like too many people so Yeah. But look. In one week. In one week. In one week. So everybody started calling like, yo, who the fuck is Eve Rivera?

53:56Tony Yayo:Mm-hmm. In one week, I dropped two videos. And when I say everybody, I mean like video commissioners and video reps. They was like, who the fuck is this? I dropped two videos in one week. It was 50 and Kendrick. And Kendrick was young, too. I remember that. I remember that. It was the We Up. I think it was We Up. Yeah, We Up. And then I dropped French Montana and Nicki Minaj Freaks. Oh, okay. So when I dropped those two, it was just like poof. Name some more, man. Name some more. We want to know some more videos you did. Man. Now you big time movies. I don't know. You know what the thing is? I don't follow up.

54:28I don't look at the hits and all that. I did one, right? I did a couple with you.

54:34Tony Yayo:Yeah, we did a couple. Of course, man. Yeah, we did one. Young and Mae, Future, Me You 50, and Casanova. Yeah. Me and Eve got some work in. Yeah, with Future was like when he had that mixtape. I did videos with Eve, yeah. Calm down I'm just letting you know We did some G-Unit videos I'm trying to remember you did so many You know G-Unit we did so many videos But you know I worked with Drake Like I said Kendrick What Drake video you did? Him and Future we did The Mexican joint I think Used to it or something like that One of those yeah And then what you did with Kendrick? Him and 50 Oh yeah, okay Then Nicki Minaj did a bunch of her You know what I mean I became one of her Like she was regulars And how I got into Latin Southside, nigga No, it's because of Queens You know it's Queens But I changed it because of Nicki I got into the Latin market Oh, okay So that's when I met Bad Bunny So it was a record called Creepy Coach Why you say because of her?

55:41Why you say that? Because it was a Latin record it was Faruqo, Bad Bunny and I forgot who else and then they put Nicki as a feature and they put Travis too as a feature so Nicki was like I don't know none of their directors it gotta be ETH and they brought me in and I did that and then from there I started working with Bad Bunny we did a couple the fire yeah and a couple of J Balvin and shit like that we started

56:08Tony Yayo:working so damn you blessed man you a real blessed man I appreciate that but I think really it's more like Put the work in, man. Yeah. Put the work in. To the new directors out there that want to do videos or whatever, like, bro, you can't be scared, man. Right. You can't be scared to talk to the artists. Like, that's the whole thing. Like, find that one artist that want to rock out with you, right? Rock out with him, with me and Fifth, for example. But I was never scared of Fifth. Like, to the point I'd be like, yo, because you know Fifth, he's like a robot. Yeah, he's intimidating. He'll sit there, he's intimidating.

56:41Tony Yayo:You ain't scared to have a conversation with him or explain I think this should go like this or something like that. Bro, we had this one director who was like, yo, I'm hungry. So I left him there and he would call me. I'm like, nigga, go tell Fiv you hungry. Go get something to eat. Oh, so he said he hungry and you told him. I told him to go eat and he never came back. He's scared. No, he never came back. Oh, wow. Why are you just sitting with me some Mickey D's or something like that? Bro, he never came back. That's how intimidating Fiv was. Fiv was like, yo, never bring that cat around me again.

57:12And that kid fucked his shit up. could have been doing power right now. He was scared. But that's my point. Yeah, but you bugging out.

57:18Tony Yayo:You could have just went and got some meat. No, yeah. You could have went and got a Big Mac, some McDonald's. I would be Kanye. I would be gay. It was Nas. Like, everybody, like, I think they respect me more. What you did with Nas? Because you know I'm Queens all day. I did a couple joints with Nas. But I remember the one we did that was, I think, before his time, was French, Kanye, Nas. The one they jumping over big-ass jumbo jets. Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember that. I remember that. So I remember That's what fire And they had dirt bikes Flying on Yeah the dirt bikes So Ye was like I love that Yeah so Ye was like Yo I'm tired of everybody Taking these videos Just regular Sitting on the wing Of a jet plane Yeah yeah yeah definitely He's like let's get the Biggest plane we can get So we went to the Mojave Desert And we went to the Airplane graveyard And it was just Yeah that shit was A sick video French I think that was On a French album Yeah I got a video Back then of Kanye Talking about Yo this is the best Best time I ever Had on set But I think it's Cause like I said Before man Like you can't you gotta like be there and tell the artists like that's the whole thing about directing you gotta be able to take charge cause sometimes the artists don't know what they want you know what I mean like they don't know I was working with this artist high profile going through some shit right now where he kept asking me how does it look my first time working with him I was like you look good he would run down look at the monitor go back up do his shit come back down like it was getting annoying So the third time he came down, I put my hand on his shoulder.

58:47I said, yo, you good, bro? And he looked at my hand, looked at me. We was good after that. Everything was like, yo, whatever Eve want to do.

58:59Tony Yayo:Because I know videos could, shooting the videos, what do you think, like, gets annoying sometimes. You know, you got people in your way. You got women everywhere. Yeah, yeah. I mean, look, man, it's. it's a lot of work. People think it's a game. It's a lot of work. The thing is, the artists want to come be in and be out. So you got to make sure this shit is ready. Right? Because you don't waste no time. That's the first thing. So say if an artist come late, how the fuck you feel? You got to already be shooting other shit. Definitely. Shoot the B-roll. Shoot the model. Shoot the car. Whatever it is.

59:31Start shooting. You know what I mean? So when they get here, then you move over. Shoot them out. Get them out of there and then keep shooting. You know what I mean? And then I always tell, for the new cast, I always say this, like, an artist is always going to want one thing.

59:48Tony Yayo:Right. Yo, I need to be on a boat for this scene. Whatever it is, yo, I need to be sitting on a flamingo with some dumb shit. Right, right, right, right. Yo, get the fucking flamingo. Because you'll get them, man, and then you got them. After that, they happy. Nah, this motherfucker got me the flamingo. I need him for the next joint. I need an elephant on this one. I want a flamingo. I want an elephant. And you have that shit there. Motherfuckers going to fuck with you. Look, tell you the crazy shit. Mary J. Blige, we know a lot of the same people, right? Mm-hmm. Angie, Joe. Yeah, definitely. Mm-hmm.

1:00:24And so I never worked with her. And I've been in parties with her and all that. I said, what's up? I never really spoke. We go to shoot Ghost. And I said to her, yo, it's crazy. Me and you never worked on a video. And she said to me, well, she said to me, that's because you were meant to do bigger things with me here. Wow. I was like, wow. Shout out to Mary J. Blodj. And ever since that, we done shot like four videos, four or five videos.

1:00:49Tony Yayo:After that, y 'all done shot videos. That's right. But it's like, again, it's like, artists want to be in and out. You tell them what you're going to do. You show them what you're going to do. They get there, they expect it, and they gone. And then I edit all my own shit, so I already know what I need. Same thing with TV. I know what I'm shooting. I know what I want. But that shit's smart, because another director will probably be beefing, like, why the fuck the artists ain't here? What? I don't work like this, and you said you shoot whatever shit I've been. Then it ain't for you. That's one thing I'm going to say.

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1:06:25Tony Yayo:Put me on the spot with you. First of all, hold on. Murder your Russian shit. Hold on, hold on. Let me tell you. Hold on, murder. It's Queensrush, Brooklyn. It's our quick fire segment. And he want to know who's the top three rappers you considered you work with. But he worked with so many, so that's a political industry. I'm asking him to crack it. I'm going to tell you this. I'm going to tell you this. Like, I never had beef with no rappers. Okay. Meaning like, I've never been on set to a point where it's just so out of control. You're like, man, fuck this person. I'll never want to work this person again.

1:07:02Right? So I don't have none of those experiences, man. I think everybody was, was for me fun in their own.

1:07:11Tony Yayo:Look, besides fifth, let's keep fifth out of it. The top three, your top three favorite to work with? He worked with so many. I just want to know. Sometimes you get good vibes with people. So I just want to know the vibes. Yo, what's crazy is, I mean, Future was one of them. Okay. Right? Future was, you know, because he come with creative shit. Right.

1:07:32Man, who else? I used to love working with Nicki too. People used to be scared of death. Okay, look at that. Everybody's scared of Nicki. Southside.

1:07:40Tony Yayo:Yeah, she moved with an iron fist. Southside. We've been around a couple of years. Yo, listen. Everybody you worked with, he worked with. It's a big name. I'm going to ask you a director question. Camera-wise, lens-wise. Sony versus Canon? Which one do you pick? Man, there's so many different lenses, though. It's hard to say because it all depends. But what camera would you use? The Sony? He's trying to break it down. A lot of times it'd be the lenses. Shut the fuck up, Murderer. It'd be the lenses, bro. But look, for TV and film, the Alexa, like the Venice, that's what everybody's using, right?

1:08:16Sometimes they use the Sony and other stuff. But I feel like for me, the Venice is one of the best cameras.

1:08:25Tony Yayo:What's the Venice? The Venice? Sony? No. What's the Venice? Sony Venice. Yeah, Sony Venice. Oh. But the lenses, it all depends on what you want to see, right? So, like, what I mean by that is the look. so when I did the movie we did lens tests so we got a whole bunch of different lenses coming in and look for the right look of the texture of the film because every glass is different you know, those shits are more expensive than the camera no, I know, I know the lens I know that if you're going to get anything you're going to get the lenses before anything you got a dope lens package you do any camera so you do lens tests and what's the process with that?

1:09:09Tony Yayo:How long does that take you? To know that you know what's still looking like. You come in and, like, for example, if I have the camera here, we're going to swap out a bunch of different lenses and see what the room looks like. Before, and then you know that's what you're going to get and that's what you're going to shoot the movie with. Our cameras is good, right? Yeah. All right, cool. Come on. I'm just making sure. I'm going to make it look nice and nice. All right, cool. All right, cool. Color skin, everything. All right, cool. All right, cool. All right, cool. You didn't even know what's going on today.

1:09:37This motherfucker's always let you So we still on the quick fire segment

1:09:41Tony Yayo:Jay-Z or Nas? That's always a question Let's go with Queens You from the Bronx You can just answer it and be just true to yourself Jay-Z or Nas? You know what I put into that is also Relationship I know them both Just as a fan

1:10:05Tony Yayo:He's from the Bronx So this is a difficult question He's not from Brooklyn It's okay He's not from Brooklyn Man it's so hard right Every time I think about Nas I think of like Eater and everything Nas man I'm gonna go with Nas What? I love J But Queens Nas Nas I feel like Nas is like He's like a I mean they both man But like Nas is like A secret weapon Like that dude Just sit there If he like lock in He gonna They wasn't inviting you To the Roc Nation brothers anyway, right, E? I wasn't getting by it. Copy. Her's, you're all right. Cool. Now, somebody said to me, somebody said to me, well, I didn't think, you know, you that type of person didn't want to come out to that.

1:10:47And I was like, thanks, Lenny S.

1:10:50Tony Yayo:All right, cool. Let me ask you a question on a quick fire segment. It's a long, it's been a long day on set. You've been working with all these actors, and you know you want to wind down. You going to do dark liquor or white liquor? Like, some wine? Like, what do you, cigar? Carl Yaka Tequila. I usually, nah, I don't drink till after I rap. Mm-hmm. Because this is what happens. Like, when you done with the day. Yeah, that's what I mean. After, after. Yeah, I mean, I'm a, somebody's trying to put me on to tequila. Because I'm a vodka dude. Okay. You know what I mean? I drink vodka, but they trying to put me, school me to tequila.

1:11:23Man, I had a bad experience with tequila. So that's why I kind of stay away from it. Nah, shit fucked me up. I mixed, I mixed them.

1:11:29Tony Yayo:Yeah, you can't mix with this. Yeah, I was drinking vodka. And then somebody was like, nah, you got to try this. And then I was. You tripping, man. I was tripping. And it fucked me up. I had one of those dream collab, dead or alive, that you never worked with. Like your dream collab. Meaning what? Music videos? Music videos. Yeah, somebody was dead or alive. Michael Jackson, Prince. Whatever it was. Dead or alive or an actor. Somebody you thought about working with that you just didn't work with. Richard Pryor, somebody you would like to work with. You know what I think of the era, right? Like I would love to work with somebody like Michael back then.

1:12:01Or like, I think of like Christopher Walken in King of New York. Right.

1:12:05Tony Yayo:But he's mad old right now In that era Or even like Denzel Come on Denzel We need you, you know we need you to name At least five of your favorite Movies from all times Because you know I watch a lot of movies I told people they didn't even know There was a Superman 3 And Richard Pryor was in that And that was like his breakaway movie You know what I'm saying Because Superman was like the biggest thing in the 80s Nah, you know, there's some movies that I watch over and over, man. Me too. Like Uncle Buck is another one for me. You know, but I watch a lot of sci-fi too. Like, I'm into sci-fi. Sci-fi?

1:12:45I'm into aliens and all that shit. Yeah, me too. Come on, man. We talking about movies like Scarface. No, no, I'm going to name my movies. Like, for example, one of my favorite movies is... You asked him his choices, man. One of my movies...

1:12:56Tony Yayo:He says fucking sci-fi. It don't matter. Nah. There's his preference. Like, one of them is, for example, Arrival. you might think it's boring what the fuck is that? about aliens about some aliens arriving to earth yeah but you got that you got training day right? training day fire I don't sound like that King of New York I love King of New York okay you know what I'm saying Heat another one of course here we go okay right yo one of the I mean favorite best performances was Malcolm X Denzel was fucking oh yeah gotcha that was a classic Spike Lee Spike Lizzie yeah what else? Spike Lee's doing another one with Denzel.

1:13:37You know, it's another movie I love. I could watch over and over and over because I just think about what if that shit really happened. The Brad Pitt joint World War Z. Oh yeah, that was a cool one.

1:13:49Tony Yayo:I thought you were going to say Mr. Smith. Oh, you know, I like the gangster movies. Yeah, the gangster movies is dope. The Sugar Hills and all that back then, right? I mean, I kind of wish and it's what I try to tell Fiv. But there's a classic. Yeah, the classic, but I just kind of wish we could still do some of those. Right? New Jack City. The, you know. I mean, you got the power. You can recreate some of these days. Yeah, but just that ever, right? Like Clockers. Yeah, Clockers was about, oh, come on. New Jersey Drive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying. Those Clockers was my joint. Like, you know, just telling our stories.

1:14:30You know what I'm saying? You could do the fantasy shit or whatever, but how about telling those stories? Because that was, I guess for us, that was our era. I don't know what it's like. I don't know how to side like that.

1:14:42Tony Yayo:Do you watch the old movies like the Mac? You know it was a classic for me that's old. 70s movie was Bad Boy with Sean Penn when he beat the dude with the soda bottles back at the soda cans. Was that in the Bronx too? No, it was in Chicago. That's where that was at. Yeah, but like, you know, I go back and watch the old shit. The Mac? I know you watch The Mac. Yeah, I can't remember, but yeah. Goldie! Come on, bro. You remember that? You know, coming to America. Yeah. You like Uncle Buck, though? Uncle Buck is a classic for me. John Candy? I don't remember Uncle Buck. Because you don't know about movies.

1:15:18Tony Yayo:You don't know about movies. What are you talking about? Yeah, that's a classic. I'm talking about just different kind of movies. We don't know Uncle Buck over here, bro. We don't know Uncle Buck. So you ain't remember Rodney Dangerfield back in the days? I don't know Uncle Buck, man. john candy you don't know yeah oh that's what it is uncle buck yeah john candy come on bro he was funny yeah but yeah i mean you know um i just i for me i just want to make that is is um that we could relate to as a people i mean like like you know it's funny man you You see these movies, these war movies and shit like that, but you don't never see it from our perspective.

1:15:58You know what I mean? And that's my thing. I'm like, I want to do this. I want to do this. And why can't I have every time we see like a military movie or whatever, it's in special ops and a bunch of white dudes running there. You know what I'm saying? You'll never see our people in there playing their part. Listen, you appreciate it.

1:16:14Tony Yayo:50s appreciate it because I always say, I say, I never knew what about stars. Yeah. Not to sound cocky or nothing, but I never knew about Stars 250 started doing everything over there. So, I mean, the reaction y 'all got from Power, Power was, what, eight years, seven year run? I think 10 years by now. 10 years. 10 years run. Got Raising Canaan out right now. I'm killing it. Yeah, nah, it's going to keep going. And it's crazy, man. It's up there to me. It's up there with classes like the YS, Supranos. 100%. But that's the thing, right? Like, the reason why that works so well is because you got a guy like 50 who's going to tell you, nah, like, I figured there was a scene where somebody drinking syrup.

1:16:55They had the cough medicine in the cup and all that and the Sprite. Yeah. And Fifth was the one that told them that's how you do it. Right? And then, like, we was doing, we did BMF. They were trying to figure out how to cook Coke. And I was like, come on, like, we'll show y 'all whatever. You know what I mean? like the water in the pot yeah you know what I'm saying I think that's the thing a lot of these TV shows that they go off and they try to do these like gangster or try to tell our stuff when you see the people that's really behind and you're like

1:17:30Tony Yayo:you don't know our story like that to tell it yeah I mean Denzel said it he was like he was in the interview he was talking about like somebody asked him like would you have made a movie like Schindler's List versus I forget the movie he was talking about but he was like as a black director he goes we know what a hot cone would smell like and I said you're going to do something Latin you understand how the rice and beans how the mom's going to be cooking it all that stuff you got to understand what that is so you got to hire the right people sometimes they just you don't have the authenticity you don't have authentic people They slap shit together, and then you're like, oh, yeah, they're going to go out.

1:18:14You know how many scripts that I got that I'm like, this ain't it.

1:18:18Tony Yayo:No, I understand, because you ever seen the documentary, I think it's called First One on the Cast Call? Denzel Washington, a lot of actors. I've been wanting to see that. Yeah, it's great. I watched it. And it had, like, black Megan Good, black actresses, and black actors, Denzel. What's that call, yeah? First One on the Cast Call. Yeah, number one on the Cast Call. Yeah, number one on the Cast Call. Call sheet, something like that. Yeah, call sheet, something like that. And it was talking about like Jamie Foxx's first time, you know, with DJ and Go and certain movies, they the first one. That's when you're the priority.

1:18:46Tony Yayo:Like, I'm the priority here. You're not. Fuck out of here. Like, you look at Patina Miller, she's the priority, right? Like, it's Maccabre and it's, you know, Patina Miller. Or, you know, going back to Ghost, it's Tariq. He's the number one. Like, he's, he's, it's really whose perspective are you watching this movie or this show through? Okay. That's the number one of the show. Got you. You know what I'm saying? And, but it take, I mean, it take a lot to be that number one. That's what that show is about. Yeah. So we're watching that show and, and, and the women on the show was saying like sometimes when they, Vivica was talking about how she was on Independence Day.

1:19:26Tony Yayo:And she didn't like the way her hair looked. She looked crazy. Picture her hair. but when she's on set of maybe some Tyler Perry's doing something that you know black people was directing that they got the right uh people doing their hair and their makeup but these people might not do your hair and makeup the way these people do so it was an interesting documentary man right it's about the people behind the camera behind the scenes hair makeup wardrobe like you got to have the right people understand that you know I mean how to comb the hair how to get it straight you You know, I mean, all that stuff, makeup, you know, same thing with lighting and everything else is a certain way you got to light a dark person.

1:20:06Right. Brown skin, whatever. You got to know how to light them, because I would never use like a green light. For like a highlight, because what happens, you put green, also you look at the skin, look like a zombie.

1:20:18Tony Yayo:Right. Like the skin look bad. And it's like, oh, you can't use green like, you know, or you not even blue. Like, you could. Like, I think there's certain shows that do that. But reality, the dark skin, like when it's brown, you got to use warm temperature. Like the yellows and the, you know what I mean? Like the cool, warm, and it complements the skin. Can motherfuckers hear that? Shooting me? Yeah. I mean, make sure y 'all got that lighting right in this motherfucker. Don't have us looking like no fucking zombie on here. Learned a lot today, man. Tell the people what you got coming up next, man.

1:20:53Tony Yayo:What you working on, what you got coming up next. This guy trying to rush and get him on the guy. Slow down, brother. You're right. You're right. I'm going to let you. Now, first of all, God damn it. You know what? We got the mics that you clip on. We're going to do it. It's like one of our first episodes. We good in the mic? Yeah, we good. Pause. We good. Everybody in this mic scoop. You just got to have them a distance. No pause. But now, so the Castro movie, Killing Castro. We going to festivals. We're Al Pacino. Y 'all just look forward to that. Al Pacino, big time. Big time, man. The cast is crazy.

1:21:28Oh, wow. Like, the cast. Who's going to work?

1:21:29Tony Yayo:You allowed to say that, man? I mean, you got Kiki Lane. Kiki Lane was in Beale Street. She was the lead in that. She was also the old guard. She was the Coming to America. That's right. That's right. Then I got the kid from Blue Beetle, Xolo, Mariduena, who's also in Cobra Kai. Shout out to him. So he's the lead, right? We got, man, Ron Levingston. You got Diego Bonetta. Like, he's a huge Mexican star. bro, we got Frankie Faison. Okay. Kendrick Sampson. Okay. From, man, what was that show on HBO? Name of the show. But you got Kendrick. So I heard you mention the film festival because some people think it's just easy.

1:22:09Tony Yayo:So look, the film is shot. So now you still got to go down to the film festival. So now you got to go to the festival. Sometimes you go there with a distributor if they've seen the movie beforehand, so they'll buy it and you go there. Yeah. Or you go there to sell it. Okay. So if we go to, for example, Toronto Film Festival, that's international. so you're going to get a lot of buyers. So you'll get Amazon, Netflix, or whatever. They're going to say, okay, we're going to buy it. We're going to run international. And then we also want to do the States because it's all about distribution. We're going to distribute the movie.

1:22:34Tony Yayo:You know what's the main question of the show, though, before we close out, Murda? You're trying to ask something. When are we going to get into something? You ain't lying. You ain't lying. All right, here we go. So right now I'm working on another film project. Okay. And I'm going to let y 'all know But the story is going to be the biopic Okay Throwback You ready for this one? All right Kimbo Slice Oh shit Make murder fight Kimbo Slice Kimbo Slice That's going to be fire That's going to be Miami That's going to be like MMA, UFC Definitely Oh look at that It's like this whole Rest in peace people think you're going to get all that backyard shit.

1:23:20Like, yeah, you're going to see that, but you're going to really see the journey.

1:23:24Tony Yayo:Remember when he punched that one guy eye out his head? That was like... Originally, I had it, and then Fifth was going to play that role. So I'm going to have to ask Fifth to play it again. Well, that murder fight, Kimbo, I'm good on that role. Get another role. It's going to be a bunch of shit, man. Keep us in mind.

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