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What is your first project?

The first project is Statistic. That's the first project that we got off the ground. There was a budget of $7000 to shoot that film. We made over $2,000,000.00 worth of sales. It took five days to shoot that film. Monday - Friday.. consecutive days. And that's the the first one we're getting off the ground. Redman, Lost Boyz, Mobb Deep in it. Straight independent.

What's the movie about?

Bonnie and Clyde. It's a Bonnie and Clyde movie, man. It's about growing up in the streets of Long Island, about how a boy who grew up without his mother and father. He saw his father kill his mother. So he grew up without a direction in life, he been through the system, the group homes, the shelters, he been through the prison system. The people that taught him in the street were pretty much like the pimps and all the dudes that was down on the corner. So he wanted to straighten up his life, he met a girl in a group home, Tomiko Cameron, she stars in the movie, aka Felecia, so they got together and tried to make something of their life, but they found again that the nine to five job thing wasn't working, because trouble found him.

A lot of times when people tell you, to stay out of trouble, your trying to do something right and trouble finds you. So it's hard to stay out of trouble...so he got fed up with the system, felt that there was no way out, so he became a Bonnie and Clyde with her, they teamed up man, and just went ahead strong.

Who's in the movie?

Tomiko Cameron, she's a new, up and coming actress, she's in all my next joints. Redman, is in the movie, Lost Boyz, Father MC, Dana Dane, you got my man General. We got a lot of people in the movie.. a lot of good people. My man Fats....

A lot of people coming up in films, they would love to have names like that in the cast. How did you get them to be in the film?

I shot like 75-85% of my movie. Then I decided that I wanted certain rappers to play in my film. So I went after them, instead of going after big names in Hollywood. I went after the next, best thing, where I'm from and who I could relate to more, and who could relate to me on that level...

...so I stepped to Redman, I showed him clippings of the film and he was like "I'm in." It was two seconds. Then Mobb Deep heard about it and they was like, "I'm in," stepped to the Lost Boyz, they was in. So you know, I could get like thousands of rappers to say that here in, that comes like second nature. They just feel it like that. You got rappers who feel real movies and if they feel the part is gonna enhance them, they gonna jump in. There not gonna just jump in any film. A lot of cats can't get rappers to be in they film, you know.

What roles do they play?

Redman plays a role named Limpin Lenny. I gave him a handicapped character, but as we all know, there's always a cat in the hood, that got a problem, either one his legs is to short, his shoulder is hunched over, or his neck ain't right, or he got one eye. There is always one of those semi-handicapped dudes, you know. I grew up with a dude who had a leg like Limpin Lenny's, he used to always give us a quarter, sometimes he would chase us and shit. So I had to envision that, bring that character back to life and give that character to Redman.

Lost Boyz, they played just some dudes sitting around a table, just that raw dirty, gritty Long Island style; how we sit around, with nothing to do, because there is a lotta lawn out here, a lot of green, lot of grass where I'm from, so a lot of times there is nothing to do but to go outside, look at the damn trees, and the dogs and just play dominoes all day. So that's how I envisioned them in that scene. And Mobb Deep is just that thug mufucka that I just had to put in there, cause they thugs anyway.

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