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…on the amount of videos he’s shot

Damn, how many videos? Less than 2008, that’s for sure! My 2009 goal was quality over quantity, I think I did about 40 or so but my goal for 2010 is to turn some corners into arenas I haven’t been in & challenge myself. I want to do some more work outside of Hip Hop, as well. I do have a personal “Top 10″ that I hope to work with that is still standing from last year. Raekwon was the only one I knocked off the list. I am not saying who else is on the list, but I will say there are 2 more in production!

…on his most memorable experience while shooting

That’s a tough one for me because each shoot is a fun and unique experience in it’s own way, although I do remember having an actual “feeling” the day I shoot the first video for Slaughterhouse “move on”. I felt like I had done something for Hip Hop that day and more than any other video. That says a lot considering I shot the WU video 3 days prior and at that time Slaughterhouse was brand new and was really just about amazing lyrical content, you could hear the pain and emotion in all of their voices. They had all been burned in some way by the establishment, but that didn’t matter because it was just about music! I felt I was helping to propel that type of mentality in our industry.

…videos he wished he shoot

I had a great treatment recently for Juelz Santana’s “Mixin Up The Medicine” but Rik Cordero did an awesome job on it so I was not mad at it..But, there have also been a few that haven’t been made that I had treatments for such as Kanye’s “Coldest Winter” & Jay-Z’s “Forever Young “.

…on working with Raekwon

A friend of mine hooked us up to do a commercial for a campaign I was doing. The night that we shot the commercial Rae asked me to shoot the first single off of OB4CL2, my natural reaction was: “When do we start”!

…on what’s next

Ok, now you have me revealing the “Top 10″ list! People like Mos Def & Raphael Saadiq are atop the list.

…thank god he’s famous because…

Otherwise, I probably would not have many famous friends…ha!