Meagan Good Bet On 50 Cent After Missing Busta Rhymes’ Call

Meagan Good missed a call about starring in a Busta Rhymes video, then bet on 50 Cent to help audiences see her as a grown woman.

In a new SiriusXM FLY interview, Good told host Eutopia she was disappointed about losing the Busta opportunity. Her mother told her to check her messages. When “21 Questions” came along, her manager had doubts about 50 Cent’s image. Good recalled pushing back and seeing a chance to change her own.

“I was like to me, this is a national commercial,” she said.

Her plan hinged on how people would encounter the video. A movie or TV show needed viewers to choose it; a music video could keep reaching them through repeat plays. She wanted that exposure to mark her move from child actor to adult roles.

That struggle had started well before the shoot. In an earlier Composure interview, Good described career doubts at 19 as she tried to make that shift. She said her faith helped her decide to keep acting and use the platform to encourage young women. The issue also shaped how she dressed: as she got older, she wanted her look to show that she was no longer a child.

The role arrived during 50 Cent’s breakout year. “21 Questions,” featuring Nate Dogg, spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2003. “In Da Club” had already taken him to the top. On “Get Rich Or Die Tryin’,” the love song offered another side of the rapper who had built his name on street tales and sharp attacks on rivals.

Good played his partner in a video that put 50 Cent behind bars and cast Tyson Beckford as a rival inmate. The jail visits and calls made their relationship the center of the clip, giving her a role in its story.

Changing her image was one step; gaining control over the roles available to women was another. By 2015, Good and Tamara Bass were creating their own work through Krazy Actress Productions and the web series “All That Matters.”

Good told AllHipHop that women on screen were too often love interests or victims, with other kinds of characters pushed out of the lead. She and Bass wanted stories that gave women their own views, flaws and lives. The project let them pursue those ideas from behind the camera, rather than wait for someone else to offer them a part.

The full interview was scheduled to start streaming on SiriusXM’s app October 14 at 4 P.M. ET.