Making the Video: 'Iraq' (Part 1)

To celebrate the 500,000th view of 'Iraq' on Youtube, I wanted to give everyone a behind the scenes look on the making of the video.

When we released Open for Business, me and Alvin (my manager/business partner) knew that we wanted to release a music video, we just didn't know which track it would be for. 'Iraq' was always the stand out track on the album, but it didn't fall into the traditional 'single' category. So we didn't know what to do. But after a few months of consideration, we finally decided we were going to do it.

We contacted a well known music director in our community by the name of Ron Najor to do the video. Only problem was, he wasn't into it. Ron was busy at the time on his own projects and making a video didn't really interest him. But then he heard 'Iraq' and his mindset changed. It wasn't the stereotypical rap song/video that he was expecting. He wanted to do the video, and he wanted to do it right away.

So you'd think we would start making the video right? Wrong. I changed my mind about it. I didn't think the video would get any play. I told Alvin that I didn't want to spend all that time and money making a video that would probably only get played a few times on the internet. So the video was on hold again for another couple of months. That's when Alvin and Ron decided to ignore me and schedule to shoot the video. It was on!

Part 2 coming up in a bit!