Meagan Good bet on 50 Cent after missing a Busta Rhymes call

The song almost did not make the album. Producer Dr. Dre reportedly objected to including it, and 50 Cent recalled Dre asking, "How you goin' to be gangsta this and that and then put this sappy love song on?" 50 Cent answered, "I'm two people. I've always had to be two people since I was a kid, to get by. To me that's not diversity, it's necessity."

The video was directed by Damon Johnson, Dr. Dre, and Phillip Atwell. It shows 50 Cent arrested and imprisoned while trying to stay in touch with his girlfriend, played by Good. Tyson Beckford plays a rival inmate who harasses him, and the ending reveals the prison scenes to be a hypothetical imagined by a worried 50 Cent. Nate Dogg, Lloyd Banks, and Young Buck appear as cameos. The clip debuted on MTV's Total Request Live on April 15, 2003, hit No. 1 two days later, and remained on the chart for 50 days.

Good rose to prominence as a video vixen and a child actor, and she was best known for her role on the sitcom My Wife and Kids before the 50 Cent video. She later appeared in films including Biker Boyz and Waist Deep, the latter alongside The Game. Her 2013 BET Awards dress drew attention at the time, and she later discussed the look on Vlad TV. Each of those projects added to a public image that was changing as she got older.

Reports also say that in a Hollywood Unlocked interview she acknowledged a year-long relationship with 50 Cent that took place more than a decade earlier, when she was about 21. She reportedly kept it private to protect her career, having just come off Biker Boyz. "I didn't want anything from him, I'm not that type of person, I've always made my own money," she said. She also described 50 Cent as a nice human being and said the public image does not necessarily reflect who he is.

The Game has also been part of Good's story. His song "Wouldn't Get Far" included a lyric referencing Good and Jamie Foxx, which she said upset her. She said she called The Game about it, and that things are now fine between them. Good is married to pastor Devon Franklin, and the couple wed in 2012.

Good's later work has focused on building her own projects. In 2015, she and Tamara Bass formed Krazy Actress Productions and launched All That Matters, a 10-episode web series for World Star Hip Hop. Bass, known for Boston Public and Baby Boy, wrote the series, and Good served as a producer and co-director. Good told Vibe that she wanted to show "more of our faces, more women stories and more family stories," and she called many TV relationships dysfunctional and disruptive. Bass said she hoped the series would prompt conversations about "what defines family" and "what defines love."

Good's story is a useful lens on how music videos and acting careers overlapped in the 2000s, when a single clip could open doors that a film role might not. Her comments on the SiriusXM interview are the main public word so far, and the most notable response from another artist is The Game's lyric, which Good says she addressed directly with him. The full interview began streaming on SiriusXM's app October 14 at 4 p.m. ET, and it offers a fuller look at how Good weighed image, control, and the roles available to women.