Higher started off as an ode to Classified & B.o.b's first love that makes everything better, and ended up being an homage to the classic John Hughes movie WEIRD SCIENCE via mashup references to BACK TO THE FUTURE, POETIC JUSTICE, and everything 80s & 90s.
Director Michael Maxxis takes us inside City And Colour aka Dallas Green's head, which looks to be an appealingly psychedelic purgatory torn between sex and death.
"Class sent me the track and just said "Its a little something different... something light hearted." Thirty seconds in I knew I had to shoot a kid fucking someone up." - RT!, director
Wu-Tang got the Shaolin, but Canadian rapper Classified spreads a more mystical Ninja style in this video for his breakthrough hit "Inner Ninja," which has gone Platinum up North and just got him signed to Atlantic Records in the U.S. [SG]
The picture-perfect vistas on display in this b/w beauty might seem jarring with the mechanized voice of Program, but it works perfectly. Director Amos LeBlanc keeps us in the wilderness before taking us underwater for what we slowly realize is an enigmatic love story.
