Calmatic on Directing for Kendrick Lamar, Lebron James, House Party Remake & More

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🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Calmatic talks about his rise, career, highlights, House Party, creative process, working with Kendrick, Lil Nas, and more! ----- 00:00 Intro 0:00 Calmatic on seeing T-Rell around town and thinking he looks grimy and mean 2:30 T-Rell says he used to practice his dance routine before going to parties 3:30 Calmatic on using outlets like "At The End Of The Day" as inspiration for writing scripts 4:25 Directing the "House Party" movie, AD having a part in the movie, and a song in the soundtrack 7:30 T-Rell and AD compliment Calmatic's work ethic and choosing a different path as a filmmaker 8:30 Calmatic learning directing and producing from after-school programs 10:02 Calmatic speaks on getting robbed and using renter's insurance to get new filming equipment 18:40 Kendrick Lamar hitting him up to do music videos for free at first and improving his creative output throughout the years and being consistent 23:15 Calmatic on dealing with criticism and people hating on him for remaking a movie 24:50 T-Rell claiming that Calmatic stole his idea for the House Party movie 25:30 T-Rell and DoKnow having a part in the "White Men Can’t Jump" remake 28:50 Calmatic on when he decided to become a film director as opposed to strictly music videos 29:20 Calmatic on directing "Old Town Road" and winning a grammy 31:03 Calmatic on working with Lil Nas X, Nipsey Hussle, and Big Sean 36:05 Calmatic on taking inspiration from the hood and LA into his writing 37:50 T-Rell asks Calmatic what kind of movies he would love to work on, like a movie about the LA riots 42:03 AD talks about DOPE and Snowfall being cool, Los Angeles-based, movies 47:02 T-Rell asks about the politics in the movie industry 48:30 Calmatic learning to talk in a business sense to get what he wanted 54:03 Calmatic and AD talk about using their past as an influence in creating new content 55:35 AD asks how it was working with LeBron James in the movie and with his production company 1:00:48 T-Rell asks Calmatic what was his worst experience with someone on set 1:02:19 Calmatic working and being inspired by Anderson .Paak's creativity 1:03:30 Discussing Tyga and Chris Brown becoming video directors 1:15:00 Calmatic on when he will be done making remakes and working on original movies ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.2	here today, man. A little homie AD. Serve me already. And I got a special guest with me
1:13.5	here today, man. A special, special guest, man. My name is Kyle Maddie. You know what I'm
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