Fatt Entertainment will shoot a new hip-hop porn video on Friday featuring a live music performance from up-and-coming rap star Tha Realest.
The former Death Row Records stylist plans to perform original songs for the hardcore sex video called Tha Realest: Way 2 Real, which is being shot around a nightclub party at the Fatt Entertainment soundstage. Fatt has booked over a dozen porn girls for the three-camera shoot, while several of Real's friends from the mainstream entertainment world are expected to attend.
Sacramento Kings point guard Mike Bibby, a personal friend of Tha Realest who helped sponsor his forthcoming album, is among the celebrities rumored to be coming.
Antigua Pictures will distribute the DVD, which is expected to hit retail store shelves a few weeks before Tha Realest's debut solo effort, Witness Tha Realest, drops in February.
Fatt Entertainment partner Al Thornton said the production design will include a dance floor, a bar and "an old Magic Johnson Velvet Rope room," among other amenities.
"We have 14 girls. It's like the UN up here. All races and creeds, superstars. We got some of his friends coming by," Thornton said.
Fatt Entertainment has extended an invitation to other porn stars that would like to be a part of the nightclub party. Those interested should call 818.709.7400 or e-mail [email protected].
Tha Realest spent much of the last three years touring with Death Row Records, where his voice was often compared to, and, at times even mistaken for, the late Tupac Shakur. He and Shakur were close friends.
"You can't help but notice the tattoo on his arm of Tupac. Pac is just shining through him," Thornton said.
Tha Realest, who came to Death Row in 1996 and made his debut on 1997's Gang Related as Tenkamenin, addressed the comparisons in an exclusive interview with AVN.com Wednesday.
"I love the dude, I look up to Tupac as a lyricist and an artist," he said.
He called being a part of Death Row's stable "a learning experience."
"It's like a college. You get in there, learn what you can and get the fuck out," Tha Realest said. "I learned a whole lot about the business."
Tha Realest is from arguably the toughest neighborhood in Dallas, the Oak Cliff section.
"It's the ghetto of Dallas, the hood. In LA, there's Compton," he said. "I'm back and forth. I came back in here in the later 90s."
He started rapping in 1983, writing rhymes and winning talent shows.
"When it was big back then, I knew I could actually get into this and make something happen," Tha Realest said. "I'm a fan of Run DMC, L.L. Cool J, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD. I was fascinated with it. I just learned all of their styles and this is what it came out to. I put my twist to it."
He called his style, "very much for the under-privileged, for the streets, but I still give up for the women."
"It's very street. It's laid back, too. I can kick the political shit, voice my opinion," he said.
"I'm not just going to limit myself. I never call myself a gangster rapper. Any style that's poppin. I take style from muthafuckers if I feel like it."
Witness Tha Realest will be released through his own label, Omerta Entertainment. Tha Realest collaborated with an all-star team of rappers that includes Fat Joe from Terror Squad, Dub C from Westside Connection, Napoleon from the Outlawz, Dru Down, B-Legit, Richie Rich, Swoop G, Aaron Hall and more.
"Witness Tha Realest. Witness what I'm all about. I've been through a lot, from being shot [in a 1999 drive-by shooting]. I'm talking on some real shit," he said. "I'm authentic, straight from the curb, in the hood, in the liquor store, in the strip club, traveling, just living life. It's the life experience. Hopefully, people can learn from some of the mistakes I made and what happened to some of my peers and my comrades, and get a dose of Tha Realest."
He said that Friday's video would be "like a club scene."
"I'll be rocking the mike, electrifying the whole crowd. Just the presence of my homeboys and nice-looking women. I've never seen one done like this. This is something different," he said.
"What I'm also doing with it also is putting eight or nine songs on a music CD that will come with [the Adult DVD]. They're all original tracks. … If this go right, I'm going to do Part Two."
Tha Realest's video figures to be a hot-seller from the get-go due to his huge underground following.
"On my Web site, I get over a million hits a month. The numbers are astonishing. The past work I've done I've gotten good notoriety and a good fan base. People are anticipating this," he said. "It's like the black Jesus is gonna hit the streets."
"…Sex sells man, as bad as people try to make it seem. If the President can get his dick sucked, I can do this."
