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Hype Williams












Harold "Hype" Williams

(born 1970 in Queens, New York) is an American music video and film director of African-American and Honduran descent. The son of working-class parents, he grew up wanting to be a painter. Williams displayed his work by tagging local billboards, storefronts, and playgrounds using HYPE as his graffiti tag. "That's probably what stimulated my interests in color," he says. "I wanted to be Basquiat or Keith Haring of the streets.In 1993 he then launched his own production company which was called Big Dog Films and made his first major hip- hop video in 1994 which was Wu-Tang Clan's "Can It Be All So Simple." after the video was first aired on mtv many offers began pouring in for his work and direction and Williams took on as many as he could having so much on his plate being offered soo much work directing numerous videos every year until the decade's end.

His work

Williams is notable for creating a number of groundbreaking and successful music videos for hip hop and R&B artists such as The Notorious B.I.G. ("Warning ") & ("One More Chance"), Craig Mack ("Flava In Ya Ear"), LL Cool J ("Doin' It"), Nas ("If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)", "Street Dreams", "Hate Me Now"), Missy Elliott ("The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)", "She's a Bitch"), Busta Rhymes ("Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See"), TLC ("No Scrubs"), Kelis ("Caught Out There"), and Jay-Z ("Big Pimpin'), Aaliyah ("Rock The Boat"). Also he was starting to direct television commercial for major brands such as Nike, Fubu, and The Gap


Awards and achievements

Awards Williams has received for his video work include the Billboard Music Video Award for Best Director of the Year (1996), the Jackson Limo Award for Best Rap Video of the Year (1996) for Busta Rhymes' "Woo Hah," the NAACP Image Award (1997), the 8th annual MVPA Award for Black Music Achievement (1997), MTV Video Music Award in the Best Rap Video (1998) category for Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It," MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video (1999) for TLC's "No Scrubs", and the BET Award for Best Director (2006) for Kanye West's “Gold Digger”.
In 2006, Williams was honored by MTV with its Video Vanguard Award, presented in honor of his achievements, as Kanye West would put it, as a "film maker." He received a standing ovation.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_Williams)



Audience response



hollykenbilliot (1 day ago) Show Hide
i love this video

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really good song with nice features

713skywalker (1 week ago)
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i use to watch this video 10 times a day back then!

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r.i.p. Left Eye cool song and video.


DarkChapterfilms
This is the reason Hype Williams is the greatest thats ever done it.
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Customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars Believe the HYPE

samnchris | 04/03/2009 | See all samnchris' reviews (11) »

Belly (1998)

Directing film debut from the highly acclaimed music video producer hype williams comes belly, with an all star hip hop cast. If your a fan of boyz in the hood or menace to society then i strongly suggest you watch this film, the acting is very good from all sides, and delivers on all accounts.

Hype Williams: The Videos, Vol. 1

2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars wicked, 12 Dec 2003
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this is a dvd to watch, pay attention!

In general people always seem to have a positive response to his work by having positive comments about the videos he has made on youtube.The intended audience is the hip-hop/ R’N’B audience
his work is very much targeted towards a younger audience most of the projects he has worked on are usual R'N'B or hip-hop based which this type of music suits more of a younger generation for example his film Belly he directed was all based on hip-hop culture.

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Hype Williams is the King of music videos
by NatakuLong-1 (Wed Feb 3 2010 22:31:47) Ignore this User | Report Abuse


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Hype Williams is the king of music videos. He was the first person to revolutionize music videos in the late 90's, early 00's and many of the things he has done have become used in everything from movies to commercials. I would love to see him direct a big budget hollywood movie because I know he has the potential to sit next to Cameron, Jackson and the like cause I sense he has a high movie I.Q. like they do. Man if only Hollywood give him the opportunity.

this is a response found on IMDB.com clearly from the comments above it will portray hype as a very skilled and obviously well known director who is very experianced in music videos being involved in them for so long also commercials and he has even directed his own film he is popular and this response shows that people would like to see him direct a higer budget hollywood film.

(IMDB.com)


here are a few response from his myspace page.


19 Jan 2008 2:48
OH MY GOSH!!! U ACCEPTED ME AS YOU FRIEND..YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THAT MEANS TO ME RIHT NOW. YOU INSPIRE ME TO BE A DIRECTOR LIKE YOURSELF.I TRULY APPRECIATE IT AND JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM...I'LL SEE YOU AT THE FINISHLINE.

LOUISY LOVE


clearly here it shows how respected and well knwon he really is this person is happy to even be recognized by him showing that he is one of the best at what he does.

15 Sep 2007 22:58
Hype, what's good!! This is ya boi stopping through to show you nothing but love and respect for the many years of hard-work and incredible work that you have put out!!!! I would like to wish you a very Happy and safe birthday on tomorrow!!! Keep in touch and continue to keep up the wonderful work!!!! Hit my page up if you get the chance!!!!

this response shows again that he is a very respected person even from people he has close relations with he always seems to get posotve feed back and postive comments towards him and his work

http://www.myspace.com/hype_williams



In most of his music videos ive noticed that his trade mark is to use the letter box picture ratio on screen, he's used this in videos such as Kanye west gold digger, Jay-z empire state of mind, notorius B.I.G big poppa and many more.
he has worked on so many different projects there is a record of this on his offcial website http://www.hypewilliams.com/bio.html he has directed musicvideos for starz such as TLC, Jay-z, LL cool j, biggie smalls, R.kelly and many more, he is one of the most established and most respected directors in this field of the media, and it is more like clients are more honoured to have had a music video directed by him then him being honoured to make there music video because has such a positive reputation.