It just feels good to finally be able to stand in front of the camera and spit verses at the same time. I been watching a lot of these other artists prosper and have fun in these videos. "I'm excited," Loon said after the scene was finished and as the crew set up for his performance scene. Whoever is not on point, we gonna point y'all out."Īfter a couple of more takes, the make-believe partygoers are getting it crunk, dancing and screaming, "Hey, ho" and garnering applause from the Puffster. This is four o'clock in the morning and the party is jumpin'. "Let me break it down to you, I need y'all to be like. "C'mon y'all, we need more," Diddy demanded of the extras. walks around rapping, but something is missing. The video's extras, who include Carl Thomas, Craig Mack and several models (some braless and wearing sheer blouses, a couple of others sporting see-through dresses that reveal their thongs), are supposed to be dancing and sipping champagne while P.D. Most of the girls be confusing me/ I don't know if they using me," P.D.'s voice, generated by the playback machine, boomed in the living room for a party scene. "I'm internationally known on the microphone/ I got it all but I need a wife I can call my own/ I don't really like to zone, never spend a night alone. I have messed up in relationships and I ain't really trying to do that no more." When you're in love with the business, it's kind of hard, but you gotta balance it. all the girlfriends that have left me because of me being on cell phones or being on the 2ways and working. "That's the whole thing, I'm an eligible bachelor," Diddy explained. "It's not like Puff said, 'Write this song about Jennifer.' I sat there and wrote this song and put myself in Puff's situation, but not really elaborating on the Jennifer Lopez situation." "People always interpret it with the Jennifer Lopez situation because it happened to take place around the same time we created the song," he continued. "You got a lot of things going for you in your life and career and sometimes you just want to settle down and establish a relationship with one female that will last forever. "Me and Puff sat down one day and discussed how sometimes it gets lonely on top," said Loon, who not only appears on the remix and the original, but also wrote Diddy's verses. ( Click for photos from the video shoot). Diddy and the Family Present: This Is the Remix, the video finds the hip-hop mogul having flashbacks (which include a steamy scene in a bathtub) of a relationship and then descending into the depths of despair because that relationship has come to a halt. "He's got it bad," Usher said Tuesday of Diddy's demeanor in the video. Both are covered in leather suits and wear dark sunglasses to mask their faces, and the dynamic duo are trying to save each other. Diddy and his video co-star Usher look like a hip-hop version of Batman and Robin.
NEW YORK Standing in a lower Manhattan loft on the set of the new video for the remix of "I Need a Girl," P.