being able to afford hype williams doing a video for you =/= being able to afford the budget that is likely needed to achieve same quality of lighting/equipment/locations/less reliance on graphics that Hype Williams had in his prime

His videos after All of The Lights all have that same look like they were done exclusively with green screen/studios/excessive graphics...that Griselda vid looks just like finna get loose by diddy

thats what i mean by not being able to afford. budgets got smaller and now he only do videos with too many graphics or in a studio space

vs. the Nas/Mobb Deep/etc. videos in this thread where the lighting and locations were the main thing that made the videos special. labels were willing to drop a couple hundred thousand to fly you to different places, and pay for whatever equipment Hype needed im assuming

post-2010 its enough to just say u got a hype williams video regardless of how it actually looks...also no one on their team probably stops and a***yzes s*** like this this deep

yep

i'd imagine its hard to get video concepts that inspire you beyond spamming graphics + studio space shots when everyone sounds and looks the exact same...

never knew this was him wow

s***s sad and i hope he makes a return to cinema as he gets older

if he kept making films through the past 20 years since belly he'd probably be amazing right now as far as the flaws belly had

imagine a hype williams comic book movie or i'd even take more generic crime films from Hype

he had a couple other movies he was supposed to make but nothing happened

ill agree on that

i just feel like as a creative you should be able to make quality at any budget just off the creativity in your mind. his videos feel stale and out dated over the last decade, like he lost that spark and is out of ideas

and thats ok because he has such a legendary run from the 90s-early 00s that he doesnt need anything more to cement his legacy. just feels like hes washed up to me

i would like to see what he can do with some big budget again, maybe that kanye angelz video will be that

spike jonze is my favorite all time i think

look what he just did last year

essetially a anderson paak video starring FKA twigs but an apple Ad

cant sleep on that nigga either

this s*** is amazing

niggas itt thread born in 2004

yes hype williams is goat

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_Williams_videography

yep

this video made me want to direct videos tbh

i made a video that paid homage to this years back but we never put it out

what the f*** is this

only ever seen this video in chunks lol

speaking of spike and hype

behind the scenes of the video spike shot for kanye (cant tell me nothing)

i never knew they dropped that whole clip

i know that nigga sitting on so much documentary worthy s***

also we in here debating who out of these two the GOAT this nigga casually had both of these niggas working on his video smh

ye talking about TI what u know inspiration

think that spawned the song cant tell me nothing. same producer

David Fincher exists

You had me in the first half ngl

yep

toomp underrated af

Man,I’m not gonna lie to you,when I first saw that Gotham City video,I always imagined a black Batman movie with Hype Williams directing. I’m talking an actual licensed Batman movie about a black Batman fighting crime in the ghetto.

Imagine the aesthetics of that video used on the big screen except with a $100 mill budget,would’ve been insane. The premise would’ve also been something totally new for superhero movies.

Maybe for music videos def not movies

It’s a shame you don’t know one of the best music video directors of all time

This guy gets it

He's a GOAT director who's happened to make some good music videos.

My initial post was obviously too much of a blanket statement but I still can't think of another director outside of Hype who's actually made a career out of pushing the format of music videos instead of just dabbling in them.

The whole next decade ppl were ripping it off

This man is the most overrated me director fr

Spike Jonze and Little X still exist,hell,even Chris Robinson had a decent style for the type of videos he made.