00:00I want to talk about fashion, because there's just, you know, in that, the last scene in episode one, exactly, when y'all come in the club, the glasses, the jacket, like every, it's just energy. So can you kind of talk about a little bit, you know, how you just felt stepping into the time period in that way?
00:17I mean, hold on. First of all, they had to step into the time period. I am of the time period.
00:22You're right.
00:24But, you know, I was really, Meech talked to me intently, because I'm from Detroit, and they're like three years older than me. So what it was, was I wanted the fashions that they were wearing, but my mama wasn't paying for no silk shirt, snakeskin belt, colored Levi's and fresh feelers.
00:44So this was my opportunity to be like, you know, to really recreate Detroit, because everybody knows, and they're going to tease me, but Detroit's fashion is different from anywhere else. Like Biggie said, hot pink gators, my Detroit players. Like we, like, so our dress code, our style, it was completely different.
01:06So one of the things Meech absolutely instilled in me was you got to get the fashion right. So to hear you give us a compliment on that, that just makes me feel validated in so many ways, because these dudes give me so much, like, dude, really? Why we got to wear these? Like, why we got, you know what I mean?
01:26So thank you for repping, and that's what the 80s were.
01:30Yes. I'm from Toledo.
01:31I like the fashion, though. I like, I enjoyed the outfits, though. It was dope. It was fire.
01:38Randy was still wearing it. Randy was still wearing it. Like, eventually, we got to tell him how Randy was, like, he still was wearing the outfits from the 80s on set.
01:46Right, yeah, he was.
01:47It was easy for us to use. We just took some of his clothes.
01:50Yeah, yeah.
01:51So I inspired him by wearing the fashion, and I was showing them how to wear it. See, here's the interesting thing. So we had the fashion, because we had the best costume designer ever, Kia Bounce.
02:00Yeah.
02:00We had the fashion, but Meech was like, no, he got to wear it this way, and they got to wear the jeans like this. And you know, this is the new, these are my new generation folks. And they're like, no, no, I'm going to pull the jeans up tighter. And I'm like, no, we sag. You got to pull them down. Da Vinci, pull them down. And I'm like, Meech, put your tongues out.
02:17And they both were like, man, I'm playing, am I playing a character or are you? And I'm like, hey, so I had to give them the creative liberty to rock the fashion, you know what I mean, the way they seem, saw fit, to make them personify the characters, Southwest T and Big Meech.
02:34And the fact that you mentioned that says it worked, and that's what this whole process was. It was a compromise, because they would want to do some things. I'm like, nah, we can't do that. And then I want them to do some things, and they're like, eh, we ain't doing that. So we found our happy medium.
02:51Yes, it looks good.
02:52Yes, it looks good.
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