Hype Williams on Working With Puff Daddy, California Love and Missy Elliott | Red Bull Music Academy
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“Hype” Williams first made his name as a music video director in the ’90s, with a flamboyant and daring style perfectly in sync with hip-hop in its commercial ascendancy.
In this conversation as part of Red Bull Music Festival New York 2018, hosted at the AMC Empire 25 cinema, the Queens native looked back on the early days of his career, working with Bad Boy Records, Missy Elliott and Beyoncé and what it took to leave his mark on the culture.
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His landmark visuals for Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, Puffy, Mase and Tupac indelibly pushed rap iconography to new levels of maximalism, while collaborations with the Notorious ., Craig Mack, Wu-Tang Clan, DMX and others remain testaments to the poetry of simplicity. Today, Williams endures as a creative benchmark and go-to for artists with a vision – be they Beyoncé, Kanye West or Jack White.
TOPICS:
05:40 - Discovering hip-hop
10:03 - Early film experience
18:44 - How the “California Love” video came to be
30:27 - Making videos when rap was changing the world
40:33 - Jean-Paul Goude and Missy Elliott
55:22 - Music videos in the digital age
VIDEOS:
17:31 - 2Pac feat. Dr. Dre – “California Love”
25:10 - Mase – “Feel So Good”
35:29 - Nas – “Hate Me Now”
40:08 - Missy Elliott – “She’s a Bitch”
49:45 - Beyoncé – “Drunk in Love”
“Hype” Williams first made his name as a music video director in the ’90s, with a flamboyant and daring style perfectly in sync with hip-hop in its commercial ascendancy. His landmark visuals for Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, Puffy, Mase and Tupac indelibly pushed rap iconography to new levels of maximalism, while collaborations with the Notorious ., Craig Mack, Wu-Tang Clan, DMX and others remain testaments to the poetry of simplicity. Today, Williams endures as a creative benchmark and go-to for artists with a vision – be they Beyoncé, Kanye West or Jack White.
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