A rapper's dream of making it big in L.A. should be in the form of a music video — and if you grew up in the pre-HD days, then 4x3 would be the accurate aspect ratio. Also, if we're thinking about the kind of videos directors dream of making, then it should be one-take, involving lots of set-ups and the long multi-room tracking shots that you've long drooled over.
So, in short: Dreams come true for Canadian rapper SonReal and director Peter Huang in this impressive video.
Just when you think this lonely Japanese gigolo — a "rent-boy", according to a Pitchfork interview with director Kheaven Lewandowski —is about to go all Travis Bickle afer a late-night beatdown, he instead journeys back to a simpler place and time. It's a simple storyline, but given an anthemic scope thanks to the grandeur and mystery of the Tokyo setting.
If JD Harmeyer made a rap video, it would probably look this. "Everywhere We Go" is a fearlessly dorky and ludicrous homage to Napoleon Dynamite that also works as a send-up of the typical hip-hop imaging.