 You know what believe it or not mode three was the first one. I cast it from tribute revenge. Wow. It was the first one I cast it and we talked about it right after The tribute movie I talked to him about it. You know me When you did the first one you got past that now you come to the second one baby I see he was in it came down here to talk to you because I need your help I don't be helping strangers seeing his face But then mode three R.I.P. The mode three he ended up being in it Just talk take me down the road of how you guys end up even bring him on the set and saying this is what you guys want to do I want to jump right into that. You know what believe it or not mode three was the first one I cast it from tribute revenge Wow, it was the first one I cast it and We talked about it right after The tribute movie I talked to him about it. You know me and he said he would do it So six or seven years later We come back and I asked him about it and I just knew he was gonna tell me here now Which why well because you know at the time he was a he was a different artist He was bigger bigger. I mean it was more of a demand for his music the whole nine You know I mean so like you know and I would have understood that if he would have said now But like man three was solid and he kept his word and he was like we're gonna still do it So anyway the bottom line is I went to mode three and I was like Bro, you know we talked about four or five years ago You are you still gonna do it and to my surprise he was saying yeah And then I knew I really I knew I was really gonna cancel myself out Because I had to turn around and tell him I brought if you do it you gotta take acting classes. So he did some acting classes And he did about three or four months of acting classes really And you saw the difference. Oh, yeah, definitely. It's a definitely definitely difference when you formally trying to change did acting classes No, he was the bomb in it. Yeah, I liked his acting in it Yeah, and I really just wanted everybody to have formal training I mean the way I looked everybody had to do acting classes No, not at all because To be honest with you majority of the of the stars that I casted The people that was out front were actors. Okay, you know, I mean actors and actresses shout out to the to the cast You know, I mean But a lot of them was acting for a living or had a degree in acting or what the school for acting or whatever Kind of I noticed more three didn't have like a huge role in there He was in the beginning part did a couple pieces But me watching the movie for the first time because I didn't watch part one Right. I just watched part two. Right. I really thought that I would have seen him a lot more Well To be honest with you, he didn't do every single part That was in the script Because I'm here obviously he passed on But he did everything that he needed to do in order for his character to make sense in the film I'm very very grateful for that. It almost reminds me of Paul Walker fasten the furious because he had passed away during that whole You know movie and so forth, but they still Implemented certain parts of things that they had recorded previously or even get like a double gang or somebody to play certain parts You know showing him from behind which is really wasn't him But look like him just to give him the credit to make sure that his kids get His daughter actually, you know would get money from the movie and so forth So even going forward because I'm sure you're gonna do another one. Will you have like a Mode three look-alike that might you know do certain parts in the movie? Justin wouldn't do I wouldn't do a mode three look-alike. You know what I mean? But what I would do is I'll write something in dedication of mode three and who he was So we just have to see how that go yeah, yeah, so so When you when when this here happens, I mean with the way the city is let's be real for a minute You know, I real with this boss talk. Amen. You know when you when you take and add a mode three to this movie With all the controversy surrounding his him as a as a as an artist did that kind of Did that make things a certain way or or did certain people not get involved because of the way that the conflict was in the city You know if they did they never came to me about it. Okay, I mean and Mode three was the only rapper that I was really interested in having in trippity revenge Of course what I mean by rapper because we had other cast members that did music but Um You know rapper that was really going on tour on the radio really active mode three was the only one You know me because what I really wanted was I wanted mostly actress. You know me because I wanted to play ball You know, and that's why I had chase pack and a few of the others. Hey man like baby. Hey man Take acting class. Yeah. Yeah, so when and I'm gonna stay on mode three for a second Like when when he ends up dying when he gets killed on the street like he did 1155 You know the movie is not finished. Right What are your thoughts and how do you deal with it? You know far as what what do you plan at that point? Do you start assessing? Okay. First of all, it's tragedy. Yeah, and you know, of course We react to this a tragic thing, but when it comes to the business, how do you respond? And what do you do to try to prepare yourself for how you're gonna get this movie out? Well, you know when we first heard the news, I'll be honest enough to say that I thought it was a joke Yeah, yeah, we thought that it was a prank. You know, I mean because shout out to rain You know, sometimes him and rain may be kind of like doing a little pranks and yeah a little stuff Yeah, but the bottom line is what I figured out that it was real Then the last thing on my mind was of course, but you had to move forward to move it Come on, so let's get to that. Yeah, we had to move forward, but I Believe that we kind of use that as motivation. Okay. I got you. We kind of use it as motivation to kind of keep pressing on and we just looked at it like man, we got to get this shit out now because You know, this is number one a dream of his and the mature This is an opportunity for us to continue his legacy. Yeah, I mean, but but when something like this happens Talk with mr. Lee and different people that work with different artists that pass away Now we start to look at the paperwork a little different and how things are going to be, you know, done with how You know, people are going to be compensated for whatever situation may turn out to be how easy or how hard was that for you to Deal with that part of it. Um In fact, I'm interviewing now. He's like, I'm winning. He's like, I didn't even know We home boss talk You know what anytime You know, somebody passing and they not here to speak for them. So that's right now You got a million people trying to speak for them. You know, I mean, and I'm not gonna say that it don't get complicated Because it do but I just did my best to try to remind everybody like hey, man The bigger picture here is leaving the legacy for him and doing something in his honor You know, I mean and allowing ourselves an opportunity to be part of something that could live on and you know for more three You know, so like that was my thing. I wasn't really tripping on the money I would you know People won't argue about that but it's hard to slice a pot. It ain't even here yet. Yeah What about rain? How was it working with rain after this because rain had to pick up a lot of situations and go a lot lot He had to go, you know, basically, you know Deal with a lot of situations and things when it came to album when it came to different things was he one that also gave his input on Mode three part of the movie or he didn't even bother No, well to be honest with you rain was a help from the very beginning because he was making sure that Three got there on time. He was making sure that three was on point with his acting classes and all that man Shout out to rain. You know what I mean? So like I can I ain't got nothing to say about them concerning that now When it came to once he passed you got to understand that rain has hurt Of course, you got him. He got a million people in his ear at his head and I'll let but at the end of the day I think we was able to get past that you know, and you know rain was a big part of it Yeah, I mean he's literally a big part of of you know the film in a whole line