Jase Interview - Let Me Live (Nightmares) - Trailer

As young Jase God prepares to release his upcoming video for Let Me Live (Nightmares) on the 28th, I caught up with him and talked about his upcoming album and more. 

Tell Em

DRAG

NEW VIDEO : KING SHIT I'M ON

New visuals for the song I released on Monday! I work! Let's Go!

No Police

DRAG

Peedi Crakk -- is wack

Crakk sits there and explains that he blew $900,000 and wonders why Jay-z doesn't mess with dude no more. C-Lown !! He obvioulsy dispalyed that he didnt care aboutthe situation that he was put in but then when his back was against the wall he wanted help from the Jigga Man. You can't help som people man.

Mack Go Rrrrrring!

DRAG

DRAKE - Over Music Video

ADG -- what you doing man?? You could either be the biggest artist in the last few years or an obscure artist that had all the potential in the world to be big. Remember Canibus?! I don't know who this kid has as an advisor but they are leading this guy astray I say. "Over" has already had its criticisms as being sort of lackluster as a 1st single from an artist with sooooo much hype around him. Then when I saw him speak about the video, it already sounded like it was going to be bad. Saying that it was a love story??? What's wrong with this guy? Do you wanna be known as the guy that makes chick songs? Fabolous just got out of that stigma kinda. LL never did.

"Best I Ever Had" video where he wanted to show his acting (umm you were on a friggen TV show for like 15 seasons) was one of those " I saw it once, I'm good" type of videos. A lot going on but nothing in particular that was interesting. "Successful" video ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ total snoozer. This kid writes lyrics that has all sorts of imagery in them, but when you see the video nothing is there. "Over" video, why are you sitting in a little girl's bedroom alone? Why do the effects look cheesy and why so many different projected images? It's like he is in a scene in The Poltergeist. Am I being brainwashed?

It seems like the classic case of "I'm going to do things completely different," but its so different that it doesn't relate. The song is so directional itself that if it was a regular video with a few twists it would have been perfect. He is trying to be Kanye "Flashing Lights" different but it's not translating. Him and The Minaj are hyped up so much and they are trying to be so different but their singles fall short not only of people's expectations, but just on a scale of being good. Dare to be different, but a good idea is a good idea and Drake needs a couple. The problem is though that he seems like those kinds of people that you can't tell "yo this is wack" b/c he will give you some long ass "we are the music, ghost of Hip-Hop future past" speech that'll leave you like "whatever homie." So, I think Drake's music will still be good and his videos will still be horrible, plain, and under the top. Plus these 2 random ass girls in the video can't even really brag about being in it. They are in it for like 2 shots and none are actual scenes with him.

No Soup For You

DRAG

ScholarMan - Hopes & Dreams

This is an excellently shot video for ScholarMan's song "Hopes & Dreams" off his album Free Spirit Of A Troubled Soul. Directed by Marques Green of QueFilms. I think its a great video until the end. They coulda saved the unrelated rooftop rap scene for something else.


Watch and Learn

DRAG

Party Boyz - FLEX

Man if this isn't some Homies Over Hoes right here!!! This is the most homosexual video I think I've ever seen. Is this what's poppin?? Huh?? I need answers. Your homeboy dancing like Sisqo with his shirt off spinning around, with wild fades and looking like the junkie on Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood...that's what up?? DALLAS what's up?? Your first hit was the Stinky Leg --- now this?? DALLAS somebody gotta talk to me. Grown men talking bout they "Party Boyz" man that sounds gay to me.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and spins around like a duck...QUACK

DRAG

Best' 09 Baltimore Videos ( to me)

Video - E - Major - Make It ft. Tia Harris
director Aaron "zu" Keeny
producer Heroes 4 Hire

Video -- Skarr Akbar, Tha Profitt & TestMe "U Think U Hard"
Director -- Tha Profitt




Video - Rainin' In Baltimore
Director - DRAG
Producer -- DRAG


These are the best Baltimore videos of 2009 to me. The editing of the first 2 and the visuals in my video are what I'm basing that on. For a local artist E- Major's video is stunning to watch and looks like it should be on MTV. I was talking to Profitt a little while ago and we talked about this video and that I was thinking about using the same effect in a video that I was going to shoot. He said it was a pain to get it to work but damn if it doesn't look nice. Profitt's grind is super strong and his video editing skills are sharp. My video is based purely on the hard visuals. The true star of it is the City Of Baltimore.

Visualize

DRAG

PenDragon - Beat It Up ft. J. Killa (aka Young J)

New video, Beat It Up ft. J. Killa. I shot this video in ten minutes flat. I only took 2 shots. We were dealing with time issues but still managed to shoot the video. Priceless.

Action

DRAG

Ok & Who Are You Again??

Listen, I love to see Baltimore artist on the grind and making moves, but, but , but at what point do you rally your assets and make a bigger move. A key part of the game is analyzing the game. Knowing what moves will garner what outcome before you do it. So I see dudes spending 5 Grand on a video, I ask myself...."What is that 5,000 gettin you?" TV time...doesn't seem like it....More presence in the city?...Not so much....More Internet buzz?...hell no...etc. So why then put so much money into a seemingly pointless project? I guess you'd have to ask those guys. Instead of these videos that are about 4 mins long, I think if they invested in a project like a "Hood Movie," they would see bigger results.

Damn there everybody has a camera these days. Hood movies are always bad, so the script is no problem and everybody wants to be a star, so gettin people to be in it would be the easiest thing ever. Not only would it last longer but it would be the talk of the town for a few months, not just a couple days and then dying out. Skinny Suge doesn't have one song out and is more popular then most local rap artists. Why because he made himself a presence. He created a enterprise (sure city official try an stop him every change they get) based on documentary. If other guys could move more into that realm, that would bring more eyes then just a kinda cool video. And I'm not slamming anybodies video in general. It's just an observation an a generalization. Think about it.

I'm giving away Ideas

DRAG

E Major "Make It"

The direction of this video by E Major is wonderfully phenomenal. The director Aaron "zu" Keeny killed this shit. This dude should be very busy in the coming months. Check out www.undersoundmusic.net for more of E Major's music.

Brrrr .... This is So Icyyy!

DRAG

U Gots To Chill

The homie Wale dropped his new video for the single "Chillin' this week featuring Lady Gaga. With some guest appearances from Bun B, Young Chris and Big G.

What's Goodie D.C.

DRAG