“He played the head of the rap label Weasel Records, Mr. Weasel, and then played a character in the other two videos which were vignette teasers for the first album [The Cactus Album]. What I remember was how open he was to learning slang that he could use. We were prepping him for what he was going to do and he kept asking us what slang he should use.”
“He lived downtown at the time and he heard kids using slang that he had no idea what it meant. So we told him that when he was trying to convince the artist to sign to his label to use words like ‘frontin’, buggin’, illin’ and dissin’.”
Serch continued, “And he really wanted to understand the definition and the vernacular of how it was used, so when we shot his scene and Lionel Martin said ‘action,’ he went right into mode. He said, ‘Look!! I’m not dissin’. I’m not frontin’. I’m not buggin’. Imma make you big, big, big, big, one big for each one of you.’ We were dying. Then he told them to ignore the contract and just go to signing the contract and with the money they would make. ‘They could always buy new hats’ and that was that. Wrap!”
Rest in Peace to the legendary Gilbert Gottfried, Rock the Bells sends our condolences to his family.
