Mike Elliot is also a former writer for the acclaimed hip-hop magazine
The Source. He was an executive producer on the awards show for two
years straight (1999-2000). He incorporated an experience that happened
while he was working there into a deleted scene from
Brown Sugar (2002) where
Method Man went to Sydney's job, XXL and pulled out a gun on the editor
for putting Judakiss on the cover instead of him. And, in an odd twist,
the editor and Meth's bodyguards all have guns.