Your Good Does Not Equal My Good: The Music Video Graphics Edition

So yesterday I was at a listening for Kardinal Offishall (Album is fire, if they work it right - meaning put together a dope video for "Numba 1/Tide is High" with Rihanna - it should a be a smash... "Bad Like We Bad" is my current anthem) anyway so somebody walked in the studio like "Yo that T-Pain video for 'Can't Believe It' is incredible. Just off the graphics alone!!!". Of course I said nothing out loud, but silently I was scratching my head.

This is the video he was talking about:



Granted the YouTube quality isn't the best, but when I see this video I really just think it's a prime example of a good idea that just didn't translate into the final product. Maybe I'm being too critical. Iono.

Just to show you an idea of what I think are good graphics in a music video I'm posting a few vids I actually dig enough to consider them artwork.

Let's start with the homie Opio of Hieroglyphics fame.

"Some Superfly Shit"



Then move onto Solange's "I Decided"




Kanye's "Stronger" was way more effective use of a green screen.




Am I asking for too much here? I just want some good use of effects, decent color choices and movement that makes sense. Oh I just thought of another great one.



And granted, this one is kind of silly too but appropriately so. If you're gonna use a green screen, do it properlike mane.

White Boy Day

I was prepping my afternoon post for Soulful and decided on Robin Thicke's EPK and Jon B.'s comeback single. The combo made me chuckle cuz I instantly heard Drexl from True Romance in my head "He musta thought it was white boy day"...

History In the Making

YEPSIR!

Kardinal Offishall Fux Wit It

And I fux wit him too... More on the listening in a short.

Besos bitches!

Murs Goes Hard (Literally)

In case you really had no idea just how G my girls at Shade 45 are I had to post this Lip Service clip to let you know. When you let porn stars in the studio with rappers, who knows what will happen next. Watch and learn:



LMAO. Hilarious and slightly disgusting.

Jam of the Day: They Reminisce Over You

No I'm not mourning anybody. I just remember the way this song made me feel back in what was it, 92? 93? I wish I had the free time to just sit in my room and play songs over and over, scribbling lyrics down in attempt to memorize. As it is, right now I'm stealing time from another impending deadline to post this. Enjoy.

No Homo - A Tutorial By Jay Smooth

This one is especially dedicated to Jayson, Anslem and Carl. Pause. Shout out to my peeps Timm & Mazzi, all up in the video.



Jay Smooth = Kinda Like A Genius