Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Jason’s Lyric”

Why he decided to do it

In that same interview with Ford, McHenry, who’s directed movies like House Party 2 and Kingdom Come  and produced movies like New Jack City, A Thin Line Between Love and Hate and Two Can Play That Game, said that Jason’s Lyric was the movie he related to the most.

“The movie that’s closest to me is Jason’s Lyric. I decided that I was going to direct something. I read a script that had potential. I saw a lot of my background in it. I said, I have the power to do it. I don’t give a Isht. I’m directing this movie. And I got the money and I did it. It was Romeo and Juliet in the ghetto. It had a lot of different themes in it. The message to me was two things. Sometimes to be a hero, you have to walk away. The hero doesn’t always kick the bad guy’s A$$. Sometimes you have to destroy the person, and sometimes you walk away. And if you truly love someone unconditionally, you have to let that person go. Because that person’s destiny may not be intertwined with yours.”