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The video shoot for T-Bo’s first single, “Go Whiteboy,” at a nondescript warehouse on Julia Street is a whirlwind of people and cables, both running everywhere. A group of young white and black men gathered in a tight, sweaty room, each putting on their most menacing countenance. It was an undulating cloud of tattoos, bandanas, gold and defiance that matched its rolling intensity with the beats blaring from a PA. Then, just as everything was coming to a head, it stopped abruptly. “OK, we need to get just T-Bo by himself,” said a cameraman, squinting through the bright lights, and the entourage dispersed, leaving Jason “T-Bo” Thibeau standing alone, staring back defiantly at the assembled crowd.

It is a situation Thibeau, who gives his age as “in rap years, about 25,” knows well, having left Master P’s Gutter Music roster after five years. “I was the white boy with P,” he says, wiping the sweat from his head. “It was time to break out on my own.”

“Go Whiteboy,” recorded with the South Coast Coalition, is the lead track off his debut Way Over Due for Firecracker Records. During a brief break in the filming that started at 4 p.m. and went on until the wee hours, T-Bo explains. “The song is a shout-out to every white boy in the video shoot that doesn’t get named.”

The lull doesn’t last for long, as local hard-rock outfit the Halo Error set up their live kit on the loading doc for the live shot, and the producers pull in curious onlookers from the neighborhood to mix with the crew to serve as the crowd for the live shot. Director John McDougal wordlessly operates the camera boom, transforming the small crowd in a warehouse into a packed cavernous nightclub, a throbbing mix of celebration and determination, echoing out into still evening air. myspace.com/dafirecracker