News: Director Cuts Ties W/ G-Unit, Claims 50 Cent Crossed The Line

Written by Cyrus Langhorne
Sun, 03 May 2009 13:00:00

Renowned music video director    Dan The Man recently announced his departure from working alongside    G-Unit despite his work with    50 Cent on    The Massacre and his    Cam'ron diss video,    Funeral Music .
While claiming there were no harsh feelings between the two, Dan said Fif wanted too much control during the shooting of his anti-Cam video.

"['Funeral Music]] was honestly the beginning of the ending with me and G-Unit," he explained in an interview. "And the reason is, 50 really wanted to have a directorial view in the video so that was kinda like, to me, my cue to leave, like, 'Oh you wanna direct, then I gotta go because that's what I do.' And I'm really, really upset with the way that video came out. I f*cking hate that video. You don't see that on my reel, you don't see that anywhere, it's just really bad...It was rushed, none of the treatment was mine...I did 20 videos for    The Massacre DVD, that was kinda in the initially stages of YouTube...So like, when we did those videos, they did not go on TV. They went on the DVD, people bought that DVD. Not that many people bought the DVD, all those videos went directly on YouTube." (   Gas Face )

Fif's video was initially a response to a radio conversation he had with Killa around 2007.

When 50 Cent and Cam'ron got into it over the phone during 50's interview on Hot 97 in February, it was a moment we'd long been anticipating. A few days later, though, 50 struck when Kay Slay premiered "Funeral Music," a YouTube video Fif shot for a track going at Cam that made its debut on the DJ's MySpace page of all places. Soon, Cam responded with "Cuurtis," a YouTube clip of his own that mocked 50's street cred with its heckling hook ("Currrrtisssss!!") that had kids on the street, and even po-po, calling 50 out by name in it. The beef game went 2.0. (   MTV )

Dan The Man has worked with a wide variety of rappers.

Projects include:    Prodigy 's "Sleep When I'm Dead,"    Termanology 's "How We Rock,"    Hell Rell 's "Get Ready,"    Maino 's "Hi Hater,"    Spider Loc 's "Blutiful World,"    AZ' s "The Come Up" and more. (   Dan The Man TV )

Dan has been celebrated for lots of low budget Internet-based music videos.

Part of what made [Dan The Man's] 'Mac 10 Handle' video great was the way it took both the Internet's lack of censorship and its own respectively low budget and turned them into aesthetic advantages, ways to get away from the increasingly stale rap-video visual vocabulary. (   Village Voice )