Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Justin Hires presents...Street Fighter




Back when I was workin at the JSpot, there was this young up and coming comedian by the name of Justin Hires...went on first almost every night...bombed almost every night. Dude was gettin it in tho. Every time I came back, he had a new joke that always made me laugh, as I stood in the back of the house with my camera trying to concentrate and not shake. Later on, I ended up doin some work for Derrick Ellis who was hosting Comedy and Coffee at Starbucks in LA off Crenshaw...and I got a chance to chat it up with Ron G who was having a special at the JSpot, DC Irving, a funny ass comedian outta the Bay, and somehow ended up bumpin into Justin Hires who was doing skits already. I guess dude he was doin skits with was pissin him off...but I ended up talkin to DC about doin a skit with him, or both of them or somethin like that.

Anyway, DC ended up fallin off the radar, Ron G asked me to tape his DVD which he never used my footage for, and Derrick Ellis wasn't payin a nigga to drive all the way to Crenshaw and film for free. Nah kid. Anyway, Justin got referred to me since DC dropped outta the skit game, and we ended up collabin on a video he was doin about shifty characters just cuz the scene was in black and white...worked out pretty well, I even dropped a dope beat on it lol. GIMME YO PURSE...GIMME YO MONEY!! You can check out the video on his website HERE. It's called Black and White...also you can check out some of his other stuff.

So next...we had to hop on this Chris Brown and Rihanna thing when they started trippin...we was textin back and forth when the whole ish was goin down with the fake car chase that ended up bein Khaled lookalike dude...but we filmed it that weekend. Little did we know we were about to make history. Nah lol. But it was a smash hit, almost certified Youtube Platinum. Wowzers. (I'm bein sarcastic). Anyway, here's the video.




Aight, so back to the business at hand. We figured once the celeb shit kicked up again, we'd go back to what worked well for us. So off we went again and filmed the next 2. Check em.








It was mad fun doin these, shootin and editing. Gettin to kick it with the folks, joke around all day, not a bad job. Editing was tedious, with the photoshopping and keyframing and all, and the sfx and even the video game music. I made those in fruity loops, me and Justin recorded all the "ughs" and "aahs" for every character, and I dealt with all the graphics and whatever. We wanted to keep it simple and corny like old SNES games...so yeah. But anyway, we're probly off this weekend to film 1 or 2 more. Also keep a look out this weekend for videos featurin Justin Hires and written and starring Chaunte Wayans, the next generation of Wayans funny, doin it Anotha Way. And if you're lucky, a nice skit written by and featuring me...just gotta find a costar real quick who wants to make out. Aight y'all, catch u on the next one. In the meantime, enjoy the videos.

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