Summertime Anthem Music Video

This was a super-low budget music video, which I never mind doing because they always have the best stories after. A few things about the situation:

The song: Summertime Anthem by Capone E (never heard of him, but just after shooting this, it was HUGE on the hip hop stations right after)

The director: Mink. One of the coolest directors EVER and was doing this as a favor to someone. His 1st AD is one of the best in the business as well.

The producer: Sleaziest man of all time, Jesse Feslot. He actually rented a Mercedes to pull up in the day of the shoot!

The location: a park in East LA. It seemed nice and quaint when we showed up in the morning, but come noon, it's FULL of thugs and all of their pit bulls, baby mommas and homies.

The security: Actually had loaded guns. I have never seen that on a set before. But they also hired a handful of cops to be on set that day. They started off the shoot with a "safety talk" about the talent we were about to shoot and his friends that came along with him. They're a rough bunch and have a lot of enemies, I guess.

It was so great to have all of the cars from Fast and the Furious on set... along with a team of low riders... and low rider bicycles. Such a funny group of people.

With a tight budget, Mink wanted the limited set dressing to scream "bright, summer, fun", like a picnic. A list of items he specified were: red/ white checkered table cloths, red party cups, red/ yellow/ blue umbrellas, red buckets for kegs to go in... All of which was killed when Capone E showed up and insisted he wouldn't have ANY red on his set. Those people don't even eat ketchup, apparently! So, there was definitely some improvising that day.

These ghetto hoopty mommas that showed up were... priceless. THE SHORTEST skirts and shorts on that you could ever imagine, none of which wearing underwear... they just talk like hookers and love attention. I didn't know those people actually existed.

Anyway, this video cracks me up. It really was a fun day and Capone E's posse was really nice to work with.