Today, the good folks at Allhiphop.com premiered the music video for my 2nd single, Splitting Image. The song was produced by Symbolyc One (S1)of Strange Fruit Project and also features the lovely Dutch singer, Neenah on the hook (although she isn’t featured in the video). The video was directed by Matt Koza of HOJ Media and also co-stars, Sudan Green (the son of famed spoken word poet Ursula Rucker) who plays the younger version of me in the video. I gave Matt Koza the original idea for the video treatment and he added his own ideas to make it work as well. This is my favorite video to date and Matt Koza is a phenomenal director. I wanted it to document my real life story of becoming a father at 16 and show the pressure I was facing at the time. I couldn’t even take care of myself when I brought my first daughter into the world. It’s a way of showing younger people that your life isn’t over when you make a bad decision but it means you’ve got to work twice as hard at your dreams. Hopefully someone will feel inspired by it. Thanks to everyone was involved in the making of this video.
*Edit: We tried to post this embedded link from AllHipHop but it wasn’t working so we uploaded it to our Reform School Music page on Youtube.com.
I just received some great news that my music video for Let’s Be Honest was nominated as part of the Freshmen 5 on MTVu’s show, The Freshmen. The show spotlights emerging artists on air and online, with the chance for one of the videos to get an automatic add into rotation on the channel the following week. Fans can vote on these videos online, starting Monday, December 14, 2009, and votes will end on Friday at 2:00 PM (EST) and be tabulated. Please feel free to spread the word and get other people to vote for the video. You may vote as many times as you like by refreshing the page. Let’s win this thing and chalk up another victory for good hip hop music that NEEDS to be heard!
“Let’s Be Honest” was produced by Veterano and the music video was directed by Matt Koza with actress Tashea Lowery costarring. This is another great opportunity and I’d like to ask for your support.
It’s officially here… the music video for the first single, Let’s Be Honest. The song was produced by Veterano. The video was directed by Matt Koza and shot on location in Philadelphia (Malcolm X Park). I wanted to post it earlier but I was on the road doing shows so I couldn’t post it on Friday as planned. Thanks to Matt Koza and the entire crew who helped out with everything and made it a great experience. Also, Shout out to Tashea Lowery who played wifey in the video. NO…that’s not my real wife but YES that is the diamond ring that I bought her…lol. Thanks to Audible Treats and Onsmash.com for spreading the word. Enjoy!
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