Lil Wayne - 6 Foot 7 Foot Dir. Hype Williams

commissionergordan, March 3, 2011 at 5:30:59 PM CET

commissionergordan, March 3, 2011 at 5:31:35 PM CET

The only link I could find has the Diversehiphop url.

gregsinora, March 3, 2011 at 5:58:53 PM CET

Aw, this could have been so much more, although it looks like Hype actually turned up this time, well for a bit.

what's up with all the inception ref's?

Kozoru, March 3, 2011 at 6:41:49 PM CET

Better version? www.youtube.com

brigs, March 3, 2011 at 6:44:21 PM CET

inception and this

mainchara, March 3, 2011 at 7:16:57 PM CET

Yep. Hype was going for that Sam Brown/classy look but failed miserably.

Did they really have a shot of lasagna when weezy said "lasagna?"

ckyrico, March 3, 2011 at 8:54:34 PM CET

Wow, I can't believe how bad this is.

If ANY popular rap song called for a video with an actual sense of humor, it was this. Shit, Dave Meyers would have done a better job than this. I thought the whole Inception thing was going to mean something in the end, but all we got was the same shot of him getting dunked in a bathtub over and over, lasagna and bad green screen shots of girls wandering around. And what was with the softcore porn-grade scene at the beginning? How'd they get Rock Harders to do a cameo as Joseph Gordon-Levitt? That license-free Hans Zimmer music is hysterical.

I think Hype is a real life Benjamin Button - his videos have started to look and feel like the stuff I shot back in high school. And the issue of "lower budgets" comes into play, but his grammar (how things cut together, the coverage, the very IDEAS) has regressed to sub-film school status.

In the end, I'm sure it's that he just doesn't care anymore. He's got a standard of living to maintain, so he'll keep churning these out and the actual production budgets will suffer before he takes a huge cut in his fees.

pancho, March 3, 2011 at 9:36:31 PM CET

'I think Hype is a real life Benjamin Button' nice one haha

donlee, March 12, 2011 at 11:30:37 PM CET

A proper Youtube without the DiverseHipHop burned into it:

www.youtube.com

bryanmatic, March 13, 2011 at 1:24:45 AM CET

@mainchara

"Hype was going for that Sam Brown/classy look but failed miserably."

Which is funny because Sam used Hype's production designer....

Kozoru, March 13, 2011 at 10:39:38 AM CET

vimeo.com

Hype William's début album was pretty bad I think. Probably he was going for that David Lynch/electronica sound but failed miserably. He'd better do more rappy/hip-hopish thing, more like Kanye.

Victus, March 13, 2011 at 11:37:17 PM CET

It's a mess. The ideas are random, so none stick.

Still better than that Enter the Void garbage. A video that's quickly forgotten. I do think Hype doesn't care anymore. Because the work shows. Whoever does his edit / motion graphics makes it look cheap.

It's not a knock.

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