Street Lights- Fan Video

Kanye West-Street Lights(SPEC) Dir:Mills Miller from MillsMillerMedia on Vimeo.

Found this video while scrolling through Vimeo, its a fan video from Mills Miller Productions, of Kanye West's Street Lights songs. Being a fan of independent Film/Videos I had to post it, plus it was all shot on the HVX200 pictured below...

Let the beat build...

Nyle "Let The Beat Build" from Nyle on Vimeo.

Rolling through Vimeo I found this video on the homepage, its of a new york based hip hop artist. Now the rhymes and everything are good, but what really stood out to me was the video quality. Comes to find out it was the emphasis RED ONE. pictured below.....The dopest part about the whole concept of the video though is that they recorded the song live at the same time as recording the video, and they did it ONE TAKE! man this camera is so dope too, bad i dont have $17k! YOWWZAS

Skills on Wheels!

Me and my family have recently gotten back into skating and one of the biggest skate events St.Louis hosts is "Skills On Wheels." People from the East coast to the West Coast come to rep their cities and have fun. This year was huge with at least 600+ people in the building and probably 200 or more skating at once. Here are some videos from "08" that gives you an idea of what goes down.

Music is Genius

Big fan of music right here!!...My friends as well. One of our fave things to do is look up the original songs in hip hop samples. It's amazing to see what the present day producers make out of these oldies. Ends up being some hot ish. (By the way...I believe that Kanye has this technique down!)...But do you ever think...wow...these music artists back in the day had no one to sample off of. They came up with these wonderful sounding concepts on their own! It's really amazing when you think about it. Much love and many props to the legends.

One of my favorite samples is "This Can't Be Life" on Jay-Z's album The Dynasty Roc La Familia. Of course, Kanye worked that out. =)

This Cant Be Life (Feat. Scarface) - Jay-Z


BUT it's great to know that when you love the sample, you can love the original the same....maybe even more. Kanye sampled Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes "I Miss You". Love it. Get hip to the oldies people.