Missionary isn’t merely an album, it’s a moment. This is further illustrated in the just-released short film of the same name, helmed by a name that should be quite familiar to fellow music video credits obsessives, Dave Meyers.
Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre star in the 12-minute short, which opens with Snoop rapping while poised atop a mid-donuts car. From there, we’re given a visual interpretation of the album’s M.I.A.-interpolating “Outta Da Blue” track, featuring Alus. This leads into a break from the short to depict a fictionalized take on the making of the video itself, with Meyers finding himself in a bit of temporary hot water after the realization that an apparently real bullet was used in the scene in question.
Viewers are then taken 30 years back in time, kickstarting a murderous journey that, as narrator Method Man puts it, sees Snoop and Dre “on some Dexter type shit.” To quote a top comment on the YT upload of the short, this should indeed be expanded into a full-fledged series, at least in this writer’s opinion, preferably for Max or something else on the more prestigious side of things.
See the full short up top. 50 Cent makes a plot-altering cameo, while Jhené Aiko and Alus are also featured. Meanwhile, additional music for the short was handled by Swizz Beatz.