Music mogul/TV show director, Irv Gotti has taken a backseat to music producing for a while now, and is more focused on TV series making. His current baby is a show airing on BET titled Tales. In a recent interview on VLAD TV, Gotti spoke on how it was hard to get funding for his projects because of his past issues with the FEDS. He spoke on how Jay Z was instrumentally in him getting the full budget for the first season of his TV series, Tales, which has 8 episodes.
Read his words on this below...
"I was tainted, even after I was found not guilty. Here is exactly what would happen. I would go inside of a meeting, the meeting would be outstanding. And then I would leave the meeting, and I just felt like either someone who hated me called them and got to them, and said, 'yo, he's a gangsta, he's gonna have the FEDs raiding your offices.' Or something like that. Or they Google me...
And then when Jay came into play...Steve had only given me a one episode order. A backdoor pilot...so, that was fine. So I'm in the door, but I'm like I don't want one episode, I want a real episode order. So that's when I called Jay. And I said 'Jay'...Knowing he wanted to promote TIDAL, I said, 'Yo, I'll give you the second window, and I'll make it rated R. So BET will have the PG13 version, you'll get the director's cut, and you'll get to own the second window'...I bring Jay to the meeting. Me, Jay Z, Steven Hill...Jay don't get told no. So we sitting there. talking about Tales, about them getting the second window, and Steven goes, 'Jay, what do you think?' And Jay says, to perfection, 'What do I think? I think we should give Gotti whatever he wants, and then get out his way. Cos when he's creative like this, he's gonna make it happen. So we need to set him up and get out of his way.' (VLAD TV Interview)
It's always good to have great friends that believe in us.
Read his words on this below...
And then when Jay came into play...Steve had only given me a one episode order. A backdoor pilot...so, that was fine. So I'm in the door, but I'm like I don't want one episode, I want a real episode order. So that's when I called Jay. And I said 'Jay'...Knowing he wanted to promote TIDAL, I said, 'Yo, I'll give you the second window, and I'll make it rated R. So BET will have the PG13 version, you'll get the director's cut, and you'll get to own the second window'...I bring Jay to the meeting. Me, Jay Z, Steven Hill...Jay don't get told no. So we sitting there. talking about Tales, about them getting the second window, and Steven goes, 'Jay, what do you think?' And Jay says, to perfection, 'What do I think? I think we should give Gotti whatever he wants, and then get out his way. Cos when he's creative like this, he's gonna make it happen. So we need to set him up and get out of his way.' (VLAD TV Interview)
It's always good to have great friends that believe in us.
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