I found some significance in trying to create music from a male perspective that was sexual, that allowed me to not be obscene or vulgar in anyway. See, people will look at hip hop and go, right now, we’ve experienced with BET as network, they’re having to censor certain portions of the music video. You can get away with less than they used to back like when Q-Tip did “Vivrant Thing,” the difference between that video and a lot of other music videos is they shot the females in the video like they were the principals, like they were stars also, careers started based on that actual music video. The girls were shot and it was beautiful, the whole video was dope. Now, you can’t be allowed to create that type of music video, at this point, because if you show the shot when you come up from her leg, they don’t want the shot that doesn’t have her head in it, at any point. So you gotta shoot from a certain space where you showing her whole body. You can’t do that dramatic thing that makes that portion of the shot sexy.

–50 Cent, as told to Nile Ivey