Saturday, May 23, 2009
Music news Zach Wolfe shoots the shit out of Atlanta: Big Boi and Gucci Mane, "Shine Blockers"
Posted by Rodney Carmichael @Rappin_Rodney on Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:33 AM
Spotted at MauriceGarland.com:
I'm posting this video because I found it interesting to see how Big Boi is attempting to bridge a gap of sorts by enlisting Gucci on his album. Only other time I can remember a DF member doing something like this was when, hell, Gucci featured Khujo on "Corner Cuttin'" on his first album.Big Boi's been doing this for a while now though. Him hopping on remixes to Gorilla Zoe's "Hood Nigga" and DJ Unk's "Walk It Out" are proof. I'm also posting it because it shows that as much as Atlanta Hip Hop seems to be segregated at times, there's still some sort of unity.
The video comes courtesy Atlanta-based photographer/videographer Zach Wolfe, who holds down a guest column of sorts on SnortThis.com and has been posting fresh flicks (we're talking moving images) on his own site for the past few months. Wolfe's videos shine an imaginative light on the random nature of Atlanta's music scene — due in part to his technical mastery of the Canon Mark 11 5D — but mostly because of his editorial choices, i.e. the shit he shoots.
His extended footage of Ricky Powell's El Bar gig from earlier this year is classic.
But my personal favorite features Wheel Chair Matt peeling donuts in the ’68 GTO he rented to the Shop Boyz for their "Party Like a Rock Star" video. Apparently, there's a big difference between rap and reality, according to Dax:
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