A couple more music vids with skateboarding. No, it’s not Rob Dydrek launching a rap career. He’s just making a guest appearance in the Mayer Hawthorne video for Maybe So Maybe No. Hey Stones Throw, hook us up. Second up is “Young Forever” by Jay-Z with a guest appearance by Mr Hudson.
– Thanks to Brian Baade for the tip.
“Young Forever” Jay-Z | Mr. Hudson
I had to look up Mr. Hudson on Allmusic to find out who he was. In the video I figured he could possibly one of the guys from Alphaville, the 80’s synth band that whored themselves out to Jay Z. In the tradition of rappers laying a bunch of bullshit over really popular old songs without changing much, you might enjoy this. In the course of trying to suss out the Alphaville connections, I played a bit for my wife and I remarked how Mr Hudson’s voice was reminiscent of Sting’s. It played for a while and she asked “What part does Jay Z sing?” to which I replied “The shitty part,” and right on cue Jay Z comes in with a “Uh! Uh!” It’s not like I’m a fan of Alphaville, or anything, becasue I’m not, but this reminds me of that lame Puff Daddy / Led Zepplin “sample.” Anyway, there’s some skateboarding in there.
8 comments
zach
THIS SITE IS BOMB !!!!!!
RH
Randy, fwiw, punkdom’s Dr. Know can be heard guitar-doodling on Mos Def’s “Ghetto Rock”, the video for which features lots of skating. (Apparently Mos couldn’t stand Fred Durst, and felt compelled to try to reclaim r’n’r for black [and non-Durst people in general] with his Black Jack Johnson project.)
Bret Taylor
Multicultual crap.
Casey M.
Woah haha, they were shooting that first video at Venice Beach while we were skating the park last year. I wondered what they were up to.
Brent212
I like the Alphaville song in Kerry Getz’s part in the “Skate More” DVS video (I think that’s the one). Haven’t heard anything else from them.
mb
Mr. Hudson is an English guy who does fairly poppy electronic stuff. Dunno if that clears up the Alphaville link coz I’ve never heard of ’em and I have no other info on matey.
baade
pretty sure that’s FDR making a cameo
Seth
I was hired to skate in this music video, it was actually supposed to be a bigger part but one of the actresses died on the ride home from the shoot and out of respect took every shot of her out. She was in 90% of the skateboard shots. There is a brief shot of me skating at 32 seconds and another shot of me directing traffic on top of my car at 11 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA_RedLbmYo