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Harold "Hype" Williams (born 1970 in Queens, New York) is an American music video and film director of African-American and Honduran descent. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A music video director is a Film director that specializes in creating short films driven by a given music track A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa Hondurans (Hondureños also es Catracho) are people inhabiting in originating or having significant heritage from Honduras. 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. Graffiti (singular graffito; the plural is used as a Mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched scrawled painted or marked in any manner on property "That's probably what stimulated my interests in color," he says. "I wanted to be Basquiat or Keith Haring of the streets. Jean-Michel Basquiat ( December 22 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American Artist. Keith Haring ( May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City " [1].

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Biography

"Hype" Williams was so named by writing partner Muse One, who taught him the ins and outs of graffiti. He was also mentored by "Fargo" in graffiti culture. Williams began his film-making career when he left Adelphi University in Garden City, NY, and joined with fellow graffiti writers Mike "Muse" Alexander and Ricardo "Phyz" Springer to create SOTA (State of the Art Productions). Other notable SOTA members include San Diego, Ca graffiti kings and two time EMMY award winning artist, Ken "Quasar" Thompson and Chris "Sake" Kinney. Under that umbrella SOTA created logo and album cover designs for many hip-hop artists of the time. Their big break came when they began working with Classic Concepts Video Productions. Lionel "Vid Kid" Martin & VJ Ralph McDaniels used SOTA for art direction in many of their videos and created Hype's first opportunity with the "Filmakers With Attitude" moniker (FWA), which was Hype's first video company. SOTA's development of the "Rhythm Is The Master" promotion for Polygram/Van Gibbs/Chuck Chillout Album project projected SOTA and Hype's artistic foresight ahead of the rest. The writing and drawing of the comic book, with Michael "The Talent" Laing as main artist, set SOTA ahead of the pack, as their work on the video of the same title broke ground for animation in a hip-hop video.

Williams is notable for creating a number of groundbreaking and successful music videos for hip hop and R&B artists such as Craig Mack ("Flava In Ya Ear"), LL Cool J ("Doin' It"), Nas ("If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)", "Street Dreams"), Missy Elliott ("The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)", "She's a Bitch"), Busta Rhymes ("Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See"), Kelis ("Caught Out There"), and Jay-Z ("Big Pimpin'"). Hip hop music, also referred to as rap music, is a Music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rap which is accompanied with Craig Mack (born May 10, 1971 in The Bronx New York) is an American rapper notable for being the first artist to debut on Puff " Flava in Ya Ear " is a single by Craig Mack. The original single was released first & the Remix was followed soon after James Todd Smith (born January 14 1968 better known as LL Cool J, is an American Rapper and actor Nasir Jones, nɑːˈsiər (born September 14 1973 better known by his Stage name Nas, nɑːz formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper " If I Ruled the World (Imagine That " is a 1996 hit hip hop single by Nas featuring Lauryn Hill of The Fugees. Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott (born July 1 1971 is a five-time Grammy Award -winning American rapper, singer, Songwriter, and Trevor George Smith Jr, (born May 20 1972 better known as Busta Rhymes, is an American actor and Musician of Jamaican descent " Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See " is the first single by Busta Rhymes from his second album When Disaster Strikes. Kelis Rogers-Jones (née Rogers, born August 21, 1979) better known as Kelis (pronounced kuh-LEECE is a Grammy Award-nominated American Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4 1969 better known as Jay-Z, is an American Rapper and former CEO of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Big Pimpin' may also refer to rapper Big Pimpin' Delemond " Big Pimpin' " is the last single from rapper Jay-Z

In 1998, he directed his first feature film, Belly. Belly is a 1998 movie the feature film debut of Music video director Hype Williams.

Williams "signature style", although it is not exhibited in all videos, involves shots placed in regular widescreen ratio, while another set of shots is placed in the spaces which would normally be left blank in widescreen ratio videos. Videos that use this style include "Diamonds on my Neck" by Smitty, "I Ain't Heard of That" by Slim Thug, "So Sick" by Ne-Yo, "In My Hood" by Young Jeezy, "Check Up On It" by Beyoncé, and many others. Varick D Smith, better known as Smitty, is an American Rapper and Hip-hop Ghostwriter from Little Haiti, a neighborhood in Slim Thug (born Stayve Jerome Thomas on September 8, 1980 in Houston, Texas) is an American rapper Shaffer Chimere Smith (born October 18 1979 better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American pop and R&B Singer-songwriter Jay Jenkins (born October 12 1977 better known by his Stage name Young Jeezy, is an American Rapper. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4 1981 commonly known as Beyoncé (biːˈɑn

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", Winner of the BET Award for Best Director (2006) for Kanye West's “Gold Digger,”[2]

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. See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry Trevor George Smith Jr, (born May 20 1972 better known as Busta Rhymes, is an American actor and Musician of Jamaican descent The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is one of the oldest and most influential Civil rights organizations MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City. The MTV Video Music Awards were established in the end of the summer of 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top Music videos of the year TLC was a Grammy Award -winning American Contemporary R&B, hip hop and pop group consisting of Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins " No Scrubs " is a hit song recorded by R&B Girl group TLC for their album Fanmail. Kanye Omari West (ˈkɑnjɛj born June 8 1977 is a ten-time Grammy Award -winning American Rapper, Record producer and Singer. MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City. Kanye Omari West (ˈkɑnjɛj born June 8 1977 is a ten-time Grammy Award -winning American Rapper, Record producer and Singer. " He received a standing ovation. A standing ovation is a form of Applause where members of a seated Audience stand up while applauding [3]

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  2. ^ Hype Williams
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