Growing up watching Yo! MTV Raps, I always wondered who this Fab 5 Freddy guy was. I had never heard of him. Come to find out he’s directed some of my favorite music videos of all time. Videos like “My Philosophy”, “Talkin’ All That Jazz”, “Ladies First”, “Just To Get A Rep” and “One Love”, as well as producing the classic “Wild Style” movie. Now I wanna BE him!

See some of his work on his site.

Big up to The Meaning of Dope for this and many other videos and expressing a true love of the art. In this video you get to see the hard work that these teenagers were putting into their music.

“…Lord knows he’s tryin’”

I have been running this short clip into the ground {“rinsing de chune”, as the say here in London} all day long. This is where my head is right now. Big up Jay Smooth @ illdoctrine.com. The video is really interesting too, juxtaposing the lavish life style of 50 against the working-class mentality of John Lee Hooker and Howlin’ Wolf. Music has always recorded exactly where the writers were at the time of the song. But this combination plays the best of both worlds nicely
{if that makes any sense. ;P}

And this is another one for the heads. KRS-One attacks! I’m feelin’ what he’s saying. “I’m in my dreams right now!” Creative visualization, f’real.

Shout out to Steady B, Blastmaster KRS-ONE, TaT Money on the cut, and Doc, breaking it down like this! The combination of black & white cartoons and 1920′s-sounding samples makes this song really memorable for me. I’ve never heard the original to this song, but I’ve never needed to, this song is a classic.

I just wanted to update the Hamlet Safety project. I have taken the suggestions and questions I received from people to update and hopefully improve the project. Please let me know if you have any other comments or suggestions. Much appreciated.

I am also including another test project i did. I added a visual component to the excellent musical language lessons provided by earwormsMBT. This is a demo of a German lesson for the video iPod. I was planning to make a trip over to the father-land (why is it called this?) when I was waylaid by a bit of bacteria in the system. Long story short, I never got to test my supposed German language learning.

On another note, big up Kerry Washington for directing an amazing video for Common’s “I Want You”. There is not alot of talk of female directors out there, let alone black female directors. This is not one of the top five songs on the excellent “Finding Forever” album, but this video goes a long way in making the song work for me. The video is really well thought out with a story line that adds to the song rather than just represents it. I haven’t enjoyed a video from Common this much since the MK12 designed “Go”.

o:{Big up OnSmash for the link. Apologies for the logos in the way. (like I did that!)}