Gangstress

November 1998 (2)

***Angel's POV***

It was finally the first day of recording my very first music video. I had been waiting for this day ever since we dropped the song and I was so fucking excited. I couldn't believe I was really about to make a music video. I hadn't gotten the chance to for my demo tape since I didn't have enough money for it, but now I was finally able to. 

Marshall flew in a few days earlier to come spend extra time with me, but all we ended up doing was smoking a fuck tonne of weed, and having sex constantly. We went out a few times to go get food, but that was it. We really just wanted to be alone together and I loved it. He had gotten me to open up more to him, and I even ended up telling him about my mom passing. I had let myself be the most vulnerable I had ever been with a dude, and I wasn't even scared. It was such a new feeling for me, but it was so refreshing not being so closed off all the time. 

I also ended up giving him one of my guns to take home with him. He said he had looked into purchasing one legally and that they were way too expensive for him right now. I gave him my illegal one, just incase something were to happen then the gun wouldn't be registered in my name. He sat there for an hour like a kid in a candy store playing with it and admiring it. It made me laugh, but I also felt way more at ease now knowing he could protect himself if need be. 

Last night, all his boys flew in. Even though it was just Marshall and Deshaun on the song, Diddy thought it would be good to have them all in the music video, even if they were just in the background. I was totally fine with it since I knew how important they were to Marshall, and they were also super fun to hang out with. 

We arrived to the set and there were so many dancers already there. They were all running around and practicing the choreography, while me and Marshall were immediately taken into the dressing room. We walked in and saw all the boys in the clothes they were gonna be wearing, and they all looked fly as fuck. Marshall dapped them all up and I gave them all hugs and thanked them for coming. 

The people producing the music video were currently getting all the dancers to do some of the dance scenes alone while they waited for us all to get ready. The boys had all cracked opened their alcohol bottles and were smoking, having a good time together while I got my makeup and hair done.

They first put me in a purple wig and a long purple fur coat since all the different scenes were going to be monochromatic. My makeup was a dark purple smokey eye and half an hour later I was ready to go.

We got out there and they wanted Marshall to just do a few scenes alone for his verses and then I would come in later and do my verses while he went and got changed for the next monochromatic scene. 

The set had a purple dance floor with silver curtains and it looked so fuckin' cool. They gave me a chair to sit on while I was watching and Marshall and the boys went out and did their thing. 

While Marshall was doing his first verse, they had some chick come up and sort of grind on him, which slightly pissed me off, but I just had to remind myself that it was just a music video. Plus, he was barely touching her, so that made me feel better.

They kept going and Marshall looked so good. He wasn't awkward or anything, it was almost like it came naturally to him. They only needed to cut a few times to come fix hair and makeup on the dancers behind him, but other than that, he did an amazing job. 

He finished shooting and he ran over to me and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "What'dya think? Good enough for you?" He joked. 

"I loved it! You were amazing." I beamed at him and he gave me a quick peck on the lips. 

They quickly called him over to go get changed again and it was now time for me to go shoot my purple scenes before the dancers all had to go and change into their new outfits. They first had me sitting down on what looked like a fake glass throne and they were doing mainly close up shots of my face while I recited the verse. There were lots of dancers surrounding me, but they were just trying to get as many different shots as possible in the first outfit.