First Name
Hype
Last Name
Williams
Build
Average
Place of Birth
Queens New York
Ethnicity
Multiracial
Claim to Fame
Videos for Puffy and Jay-Z
Gender
Male
Nationality
Honduran
Wikipedia Text
Harold "Hype" Williams (born 1970; Queens, New York), previously known as HYPE, is an American music video and film director of African-American and Honduran descent. His nickname "Hype" comes from his hyperactive nature as a child. Williams first displayed his work by tagging local billboards, storefronts, and playgrounds using HYPE as his graffiti tag. "That's probably what stimulated my interests in color," he says. "I wanted to be Basquiat or Keith Haring of the streets."
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Director, Writer, Producer
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Nickname "Hype"
comes from his hyperactive nature as a child.
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`").
In 1998, he directed his first feature film, Belly.
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.
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." He received a standing ovation.[3]
2007 is in full gear for Hype Williams. In addition to his film and video endeavors, Williams has joined forces with Corbis Outline as a celebrity photographer, partnered with Havas, the 6th largest global advertising and communications group worldwide that insiders claim is a groundbreaking media deal for the distribution of video content over the internet, and heard entertaining offers to release a fashion line.
High School
Andrew Jackson high school of Art and Music
University
Adelphi University
Official Websites
www.hypewilliams.com
Full Name at Birth
Harold Wiliams
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