I could tell him something once and he got it. "Some rappers have insecurities and they get a little nervous. "If you tell him something, he'll listen and he goes at it without insecurities," Terrero continued. 50 is the kind of guy that will try whatever."īefore the shoot was over, 50 was performing all of his own stunts, which included hitting a fence and the ground 10 times in a row. "I think that he's definitely grown," the director said of 50 Cent. "Tiny" Lister, Gabriel Casseus, Henry Simmons of "NYPD Blue" and Adam Rodriguez and Rory Cochrane of "CSI Miami" are among the actors who did make the video. Terrero said that plenty of thespians, including Omar Epps and Larenz Tate, wanted to act alongside 50 in the video, but had to pull out for scheduling reasons. It wasn't a hard sell to any of the artists. When I called Mekhi, he had 50 on his cell phone. "Mekhi was already affiliated with 50 through Eminem. "I got on the phone and called every actor I knew to do me a favor for free," Terrero said. The leader of the G-Unit, however, survives the hit, regains his health and exacts revenge with help from a hitman played by Mekhi Phifer. In the video, 50's friends put a contract out on his life and he's gunned. I played off that to cause a little more controversy." I knew people know he has some problems in the industry. Place these two guys in the video as rap artists. I wanted to create a mini-movie based on not necessarily a reality, but some of the things that might have happened in his life. "I think a lot of people are caught up in his story how he got shot, who might have done it and that type of vibe," he added. I listened to that song a hundred times already. was my favorite song on the album, I already had in my mind.
Something street-driven that kind of went along with what he was saying. "I got a call from them and they all were collectively on the phone - 50 Cent, Paul Rosenberg, guys from Violator," he detailed.
Terrero spent up a bunch of his celly minutes talking to guys - first with 50 and crew to conceptualize the project, then with the actors he wanted to appear in the clip. This one is not for the ladies, it's for the thugs.' " Terrero said that the models he had to persuade to be in the "Wanksta" clip kept blowing up his phone to be down with the "Many Men" shoot, but he had to decline.
about filming "Many Men." "I was like, 'Damn, look what six months could do.' " "The world changed, we was joking about it on set," Terrero said last week in L.A. to see the rapper as he films scenes for his latest video, "Many Men." Six months later, 50's status has skyrocketed and people are lining the streets of downtown LA. The budget is so small, they can't afford the women's regular prices (see "50 Cent Explains What A 'Wanksta' Is" ). 50 is so underneath the music radar that hardly any people are in the streets while 50 is filming and the models that are in the clip practically had to be begged by director Jessy Terrero to participate. His buzz hasn't taken over the West Coast yet. In L.A., where 50 is putting together the visuals to coincide with the music, the story is different. It's the late fall of 2002 and 50 Cent is in the streets of Los Angeles shooting his new video for "Wanksta." For residents in his hometown of New York, it seems like you cannot walk two blocks without hearing some kid sing out, "Damn homie, in high school you was the man, homie," or hearing the song itself blast out of a car radio or home stereo.
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