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(June 28, 2000)
NEW WYCLEF JEAN VIDEO TO PREMIERE THIS WEEK ON MTV'S TOTAL REQUEST LIVE
Wyclef Jean's new video It Doesn't Matter (shot by
Hype Williams earlier this month in Toronto) premieres on MTV's
Total Request Live this Wednesday at 3:30pm.
(June 24, 2000)
UPCOMING BUSTA RHYMES VIDEO TO BE FEATURED ON "MAKING THE
VIDEO"
Another video has been announced to premiere on MTV's
Making The Video. According to Elektra.com,
the new Busta Rhymes video Fire will be featured on
the MTV show on July 17. As reported earlier, it was rumored that
the video will be directed by Hype Williams.
(June 23, 2000)
UPCOMING LL COOL J VIDEO FEATURED ON "MAKING THE VIDEO" |
MACY GRAY VIDEO CLIP LINKS
According to DefJam.com,
the new Hype Williams-directed video Imagine That by LL
Cool J will be featured on MTV's
Making The Video on July 5. The show will present
behind-the-scenes footage from the video shoot, followed by the world
premiere of the video. Elektra.com has also announced that Busta
Rhymes's new video Fire will premiere on Making The Video on July 17.
As reported earlier, it was rumored that the video will be directed by
Hype Williams.
The Official
Macy Gray website has posted links to video clips of the new Hype
Williams directed Why Didn't You Call Me by Macy Gray.
(June 16, 2000)
R.KELLY "BAD MAN" FULL LENGTH VIDEO DOWNLOAD LINKS FROM
OFFICIAL SITE
The Official
Shaft website has posted links to two very high quality full length
(4:10min.) downloads for the Hype Williams-directed video for Bad
Man by R. Kelly. (warning: don't attempt to
download unless you have high speed connection or a few hours to spare!)
(thanks to Cihan for the info!)
(June 15, 2000)
HYPE FORMS NEW PRODUCTION COMPANY |
UPCOMING MTV2 EUROPE DOCUMENTARY
The June 3, 2000 issue of Billboard
magazine (pg.107) mentions Hype Williams forming a new production
company:
"HYPE'S NEW COMPANY: Music
video director Hype Williams has left H.S.I. Productions to launch his
own production company, Instinct, based in New York. Connie Orlando is
Instinct's executive producer, and Abdur Rahman is the company's
representative."
MTV2
Europe has several music video documentaries
lined up this month. In addition to Directors Cut Week at the end
of the month, they plan on showing a four-part documentary entitled Music
On Screen: Three Decades Of The Music Video. It is described
as "an exclusive examination of the art, function and innovation of
the music video." Each episode airs at 10:00pm (UK Time) from
June 15-18, 2000. What's interesting is that the second episode
focuses on American music video directors. Episode Two: Spike
Jonze and the American All-Stars, focuses on the work and influence
of directors such as Spike Jonze, Hype Williams, and Mark Romanek.
I'm assuming that they will have interviews with the directors as well.
(visit
MTV2Europe for more info)
Spike Jonze and the American
All-Stars (feat. Hype Williams) MTV Europe June 16 @ 10pm (UK time)
"This episode is dedicated to the American new-school, the
brat-pack innovators that have changed the way we view the music
video. In the Eighties music videos were generally big sets matched
only by even bigger budgets - fresh ideas, however, were becoming less
and less frequent. In the early nineties, young directors such as
Spike Jonze and Roman Coppolla began to match the burgeoning DIY ethic
of Grunge and Electronica with scratchy, lo-fi visuals, simple yet
effective ideas and ironic conceptualization that drew inspiration
from modern popular culture: Jonze's infamous 70's cop show spoof for
the Beastie Boy's "Sabotage" remains a benchmark of this
type of spontaneous, vibrant post-modernism. On the flipside, American
directors such as Hype Williams and Mark Romanek have found new and
far more effective ways to spend as much money as possible, by
focusing on the personality of the artist and making them look,
literally, a million dollars..."
(June 14, 2000)
HYPE TO DO PHOTO SHOOT WITH GARBAGE? |
RUMORED NEW VIDEOS
Shirley Manson (lead singer of Garbage) recently wrote in
her Studio Diary at the official Garbage.com
website that Hype Williams might do a photo shoot with her! (Saturday,
June 3, 2000) "Oh my god.....I am SO excited. I might be doing a
photo shoot with Hype Williams!!!! Oh please oh please oh please don't
let this fall through."
(thanks to JD for the info)
Also, there are unofficial reports that
Hype Williams will be shooting new videos for Busta Rhymes Fire,
DMX/Sisqo What These B*****s Want, and a new R. Kelly
video sometime this week in LA.
(June 13, 2000)
NEW R.KELLY AND MACY GRAY VIDEOS PREMIERE
Two new Hype Williams-directed videos premiered in the past few days.
The new R. Kelly video Bad Man (from the Shaft
movie soundtrack) has premiered on BET.
As well, the new Macy Gray video Why Didn't You Call Me
premiered on VH1's The
Daily One show yesterday.
(thanks to Kevin for the info)
(June 8, 2000)
HYPE SHOOTS NEW WYCLEF VIDEO IN TORONTO
According to MTV.com, Wyclef
Jean was in a downtown Toronto club over the weekend to shoot a new
video with Hype Williams. The video for It Doesn't Matter
is basically Wyclef in the year 1988 trying to get into a club.
WWF wrestler "The Rock" makes a cameo appearance in the video.
I had a chance to see behind-the-scenes footage on Canadian music
station Musique Plus, and it showed a blue tinted scene where The Rock
beats up on some guy. Wyclef wears a white Kangol-style mink coat
with matching hat, snake-skin pants, Mercedes-Benz emblem on a chain
around his neck, true pimp style.
(thanks to Wayne for the info)
(June 6, 2000)
HYPE DIRECTS NEW R.KELLY VIDEO
According to MTV.com, R.
Kelly teamed up with Hype Williams last month to shoot the new video
for Bad Man, the lead single from the soundtrack to this
summer's Shaft remake (starring Samuel L. Jackson).
According to R. Kelly, the video features action sequences and
pyrotechnics.
click
here to view a clip from the video shoot (from MTV.com)
(thanks to Keenon for the info)
(June 2, 2000)
HYPE TO DIRECT NEW LL COOL J VIDEO
MTV.com announced
yesterday that LL Cool J is scheduled to shoot a new video with
Hype Williams on June 17 & 18 in LA. The video is for the
single Imagine That from his new album The G.O.A.T.
(Greatest Of All TIme), and features La Shawn (also featured
in his single Doin' It.
(June 1, 2000)
JA RULE VIDEO APPEARS ON DVD | "THE
FACE" ARTICLE ADDED TO SITE
The DVD release of the movie Light It Up (scheduled for June 13)
features a few music videos including Ja Rule's How Many Wanna
(directed by Hype Williams).
I also added (to the site) the full text
article from The Face (April 2000) about Hype Williams's
direction of the Julien Macdonald fashion show in London this past
February. Its worth the read.
click here to read article
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