It would have made Belly worse than it already was.
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Little inside info...Hov was offered the role first and turned it down, due to the drug use the he had to do playing that role...He was focusing in on becoming and superstar and that wasn’t the image he wanted at the time...Def Jam begged him but he felt the character and sex scenes and gettin head from a 16 year Vida wasn’t going to upgrade his career...Wasn’t a money thing even tho X got payed was less than what they offered J...But wasn’t willing to sacrifice his image after the Un situation...And the budget was really low, they couldn’t afford Hov to portray Tommy Bunz....Not authentic to his brand after that Un situation
Little inside info...Hov was offered the role first and turned it down, due to the drug use the he had to do playing that role...He was focusing in on becoming and superstar and that wasn’t the image he wanted at the time...Def Jam begged him but he felt the character and sex scenes and gettin head from a 16 year Vida wasn’t going to upgrade his career...Wasn’t a money thing even tho X got payed was less than what they offered J...But wasn’t willing to sacrifice his image after the Un situation...And the budget was really low, they couldn’t afford Hov to portray Tommy Bunz....Not authentic to his brand after that Un situation


Simple math exposed that weirdo's post.Pure cap.
Belly was released in 1998
Jay Z was arrested for the Un altercation in 1999.
It was actually a big budget. 50 million to be exact. It was considered a very big risk. That’s why Hype never got a follow up.
Little inside info...Hov was offered the role first and turned it down, due to the drug use the he had to do playing that role...He was focusing in on becoming and superstar and that wasn’t the image he wanted at the time...Def Jam begged him but he felt the character and sex scenes and gettin head from a 16 year Vida wasn’t going to upgrade his career...Wasn’t a money thing even tho X got payed was less than what they offered J...But wasn’t willing to sacrifice his image after the Un situation...And the budget was really low, they couldn’t afford Hov to portray Tommy Bunz....Not authentic to his brand after that Un situation
Lol. That’s what cats was saying back then.50 million budget for Belly are you high
y'all really be saying whatever on these internets
Little inside info...Hov was offered the role first and turned it down, due to the drug use the he had to do playing that role...He was focusing in on becoming and superstar and that wasn’t the image he wanted at the time...Def Jam begged him but he felt the character and sex scenes and gettin head from a 16 year Vida wasn’t going to upgrade his career...Wasn’t a money thing even tho X got payed was less than what they offered J...But wasn’t willing to sacrifice his image after the Un situation...And the budget was really low, they couldn’t afford Hov to portray Tommy Bunz....Not authentic to his brand after that Un situation
Grown ass fukking man lying to a bunch of strangers on the internet for daps. Damn you nikkas are pitiful.Breh You are absolutely right.Jay can't act
X is probably one of the best rapper/actors since Pac/LL
Nas can't act neither and the two of them together would have just been a mess...... X's energy saved the film imo.
so it all worked out the way it was supposed to thankfully



Wasn't them nikkas just starting to lowkey throw jabs at that time too. I think that had something to do with Nas' owl impression along with the fact that he would have been a horrible choice for that character.