Hype Williams

Oh.

Um, especially like, like Hype Williams, like back-

[laughs]

...

in the day growing up.

Yeah.

Like, the creativity of, like, Hype Williams and, you know, he did a lot of, like, um, the Busta Rhymes music videos.

Yeah.

I've never seen it on big screen.

Have you ever seen Belly on the big screen? Anyway, shout out to Hype Williams.

Shout out to myself.

Shout out to everyone in the room.

How she was desperately seeking to organize enough confusion using no protection, total resurrection.

Caught into Hype Williams and lost her direction.

Getting ate in sections where I would eat her under the counter love, so silently I treat her.

Her daddy a beat her.

We love you, D'Angelo.

Big salute and big shout to Hype Williams for directing this video.

Big shout to my leading lady in the video by the name of Janelle Williams.

Produced by the incredible J Dilla, featuring the incredible D'Angelo.

We made, like, little movies and plays and albums, and that's just how we played [laughs].

So it was just something since I was a kid that I've always been interested in, um, and like films, like Spike Lee, a film director, and even music videos, like Hype Williams.

Mm.

Those people kind of really inspired me, and would just study and watch them, and kind of, I didn't know I was doing it at the time as a kid when I was, you know, like, really studying films and stuff like that, but that, you know, that's really what I was doing in terms of just kind of imagining myself or imagining ideas I had and putting my, uh, you know, my cousins and my friends in those positions to, like, be those characters.

Yeah, you're still young-minded, yeah.

Well, you meet Hype Williams at one point.

Yes, I did.

And during this era, he was the absolute king-

... of music videos.

Yes, he was.

All the biggest music videos, didn't matter what genre, which artist, they all wanted a high-budget Hype Williams videos.

Yes.

Yeah.

Call up Hype Williams for the hype, please.

Uh.

They gon' wipe you before you wipe me.