Directed by Derek Pike

Last week I was in Jersey shooting the video for Young Chris’ “Grown Thangs” the first single off The Network Mixtape hosted by Don Cannon. The concept was pretty simple, Chris sees girl, Chris sweet talks girl, Chris gets girl. Fortunately for Chris, this wasn’t going to take too long to shoot, so when he arrived on set 4 hours late due to “shore traffic” I was still able to pull this off with the 2 hrs of daylight we had left. Chris is a cool dude, and very professional so it wasn’t hard for us to focus and make the most out of the time we did have and in the end everything worked out. Shout out to Rik for putting up with me, Steve for setting up the video, Shannon for playing a lovely love interest in the video, and a BIG shout out to that dude who’s name I never caught, but let us borrow his black on black benz last minute, that was a good look!

- Derek Pike