While director Gabriel Hart's video for Young Jeezy "My President Is Black" featuring Nas got the burst of attention you'd expect during inauguration season, this other current clip for Atlanta rapper B.O.B. could be the one to make it through the first 100 days. Very loosely based on a Creep Show comic book tale, B.O.B. is cast as an alien (or an ATLien?) who comes to earth to shift the course of typical gangsta thug hip-hop. Hart throws in a flurry of different looks and feels — the mirror image gag stands out — that, when combined with the huge off-kilter hook in the song, sets B.O.B. squarely in the lineage of OutKast. --> watch "I'll Be In The Sky"
B.O.B. "I'll Be In The Sky" (Atlantic)
Gabriel Hart, director | Maya Table, producer | Southern Trees Film Group, production co
