A dance battle between Chris Brown and Drake doesn't seem like a fair fight, but director Chris Robinson and crew don't let this storyline play out as you'd expect.
It's one thing to talk on camera about sex and passion, it's another to jump into bed and show us what you got.
Various couples — most of whom look nothing like the kinds of folks who usually get naked and nasty in videos — hit the sheets in this ultra-sexy and attention getting video for Estelle.
If my memory serves, this was the video that served as the breakout for director Chris Robinson.
"Uptown Baby" was an unlikely hip-hop anthem based around a Steely Dan sample that made such an airtight case for The Bronx's supremacy as the birthplace of rap music that even a Mets fan would have to give it up.
Ironically, the video itself was shot at the Met's former Queens home, Shea Stadium — a fact that's apparent to anyone from the five boroughs, or a National League city. But it was a hit clip nonetheless, thanks to Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz looking big in the video, a who's who of NYC rap celeb cameos, a sweeping 360° camera move, and, of course, a very hot track.
Alicia Keys has fire on her mind lately — from 'Girl on Fire' to her newest clip, "The Fire We Make.'" Director Chris Robinson takes Alicia and co-star Maxwell to the original home of things getting heated: New Orleans.
