“Hello Mr. Dashawn Taylor, it is a pleasure to finally meet you sir.” He stood up and pulled me in for a one arm hug.
“What’s good the great Poetic Pain? I am one of your biggest fans.” He chuckled.
“Dashawn if you don’t cut it out.” I chuckled. Dashawn was a known actor. He would be on and off with his appearance, but when he got to work he killed it every single time. He called me a month ago and told me he would be in Jersey and would love for us to collab while he was here and this was something that I would not pass up. Me and him could make some magic and great money while he was in town. I was surely looking forward to this. I was ready to start filming as soon as next week if he was ready. This meeting was for us to discuss and brainstorm exactly what we wanted to do.
“Man, I’m so serious you’ve become one of my favorites in this industry.” He smiled.
“Well, here we are. Two of the greats about to collab, please come on and follow me to my office.” I was smiling from ear to ear. I was so happy about this collab actually happier than I’ve been in a long time about work.
“Taylor, I need you to set up a lunch date for me, Kayla, Khary and Malcom. Send them all a text to let them know. You can set the reservation for Flemings Steak House, call and let them know I need the meeting room in the back. I don’t feel like a whole bunch of fans in my face today.”
“Alright Mr. Pain and I’ll forward all emails and voice messages after your meeting with Mr. Taylor.”
“OK, no problem.” I said while heading to my office with Dashawn right behind me. Once we made it to my office I walked in, laid my stuff down, and walked straight to my refrigerator.
“Would you like something to drink before we start?”
“I’ll take a water.”
“OK, cool, have a seat and make yourself comfortable.” Dashawn did as he was told and I grabbed us both a water. I also grabbed my laptop, a pen, and notebook.
“OK, let’s get to it.” I said while sitting down.
“So, I wanna do a cop series likeNew York Undercover. I think it should be calledJersey’s Finest. I know you have the cast and the production while I have the idea.”
“OK, this sounds good to me, so what you thinking as far as cast?”
“I want A dominate black cast but we can have other nationalities. We don’t have many dominate black cop series. Plus, we always have cop shows and they always about the black folks getting arrested, framed or being dirty cops. I want us to be great. As far as having the best arrest record and all of that.”
“So, how big of a series do you want this?”
“We can start out as a mini-series see how it does and take it from there.”
“OK, cool, I’m all for that. Start out with it being six hour long episodes.”
“Alright cool, now let’s use this time to come up with what the first six episodes will be about. Then we can come up with cast members names and all that good stuff.” Dashawn encouraged.
“We can indeed handle that. We can actually do this for the first couple of days. Then we can host a calling cast event. Then filming will start in approximately a week and a half.”
“Which means we will have this on the air in about a month. This is so dope that you have everything right here at your studio. You don’t have to find places to film. You have everything here from restaurants, police stations., hospitals. Man, you did your big one with this. You’re definitely an inspiration for so many young folks.”
“Thanks man, I truly appreciate that. People never know what I went through to get here.”
“I felt that, some of us have some scars that can never heal behind this shit.” He spoke in a sad tone. I could feel how serious the thought he was having felt, but I didn’t know what his scars was and to be honest, I didn’t wanna know because one thing I wasn’t going to do was talk about mine.
“So, what do you think this first episode should be about?” I inquired.
“How about a gang war or drug trafficking?”
“Those can be the first two they can go hand and hand and be connected somehow.” I suggested, causing Dashawn to shake his head. We went on for hours with many more suggestions. I felt like this was the start of something great and I was all for it.
