It was amazing. UGK was really doing their thing. At that time I was grinding. I had a house in Dallas and a townhouse in Houston. I was always on that highway. I was driving to Houston and Pimp was on the phone with me.
We were talking about videos and he told me that I was going to be their main director going forward. I was super excited. I shot some videos in Dallas and then I had a big video shoot in Miami. While I was there he called me and asked me to come to California and shoot a video with him and Bun.
I told him I had a video shoot in Atlanta but he wanted me to come right away. Two days later I got to Atlanta and checked into my hotel. Myspace was still going strong and when I went on my page I had all kinds of comments and messages telling me things like sorry for your loss and my condolences. He was just so full of energy. As always he wanted to talk about when we were growing up. Then the next thing I knew he was gone. Not at all. At that particular time, I was shooting a lot of independent videos.
Big budget independent videos. Then I got introduced to Gucci Mane. He wanted to see my work so I sent him to my Myspace page. I had all my videos on there and he watched some. He called me back and told me that he wanted to fuck with me.
I went out to Atlanta with my producer to meet with him. It was almost on a whim, nothing was guaranteed. So we get out there and get a hotel room. She was his manger then. She told us that that was the type of shit he does and gave us the address to the house they were at.
We went over there and met her. She was cool as hell. That really helped us out. She took us down into the basement and was showing us where everybody lived. OJ Da Juiceman too, they all stayed in the basement. This was really early, like or They were like a family. We were there all day, she cooked spaghetti for us. We started to form a relationship with her. She had us laughing, we had her laughing.
Gucci finally came home late in the day and it was like instant chemistry. We started joking almost immediately and he felt comfortable with us. We never got to do the video. It just took off from there. I used to call it the marathon. I did one video. He was still on house arrest. We shot some classic videos. I always tell people that we should be in the Guinness Book of World Records. Before he went to prison I shot at least 38 videos with Gucci in a relatively short timespan.
Or does it even matter? It used to be real hard. My thing is that as an artist, and a director is an artist, you have to create something that will make people like the song. It was hard for me at the beginning of my career. Even if I hate the song I know how to bring a great vision to it.
When we were doing the real big-budget videos we would need at least a week or two of prep time. They would send us a spec sheet. They would tell us that they wanted us to do the video or even write for it. Whoever came up with the best concept would get it. The spec sheet would tell us what city they wanted to shoot in and what the budget was. The artist or management might have ideas of what they wanted as well.
From there you start getting everything together. We put the crew together and lock in the locations. Then everyone has to get there. You got to have production assistants there beforehand. With the models, we usually use a casting director. Someone that has a real agency. Sometimes the label wants to see pictures of them beforehand.
Sometimes it will be two days but those are the big-budget videos. It all comes together in the edit. I love editing, period.
I love shooting. Your movie Candy just came out on Amazon Prime. It premiered in Houston theaters in Why did it take longer than usual to become available for streaming? I figured if I had some known rappers in it I could just go and get a deal from somebody. These distributors want selling points. They want known actors in your movie. That was one mistake I made with Candy.
Initially, it was hard to get distribution. Even though I have A. I see that Stephen Jackson is an executive producer for the film.
What was his role in it? Stephen grew up around the corner from me. My younger brother actually got Steve playing in the pick-up games in our neighborhood. He does come from a basketball family though. How Much Have You Seen? How much of Mr. Boomtown's work have you seen? Known For. Drumma Boy Feat. Gucci Mane: Trap Talk Director. Tony Yayo Feat. Bun B Feat. Show all Hide all Show by Jump to: Director Editor Producer. Hide Show Director 45 credits. Fetty Wap: Tell Me Video short.
Yo Gotti: Yayo Video short. Chief Keef: Darker Video short. Member Since May Nahala Johnson. About Director. BIO This extremely talented and highly sought-after film director has arrived on the entertainment scene and is looking forward to evoking an explosion of raw talent within the film and music industries. Sign In to Message.
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