BELLY — Hype Williams and Soul II Soul bring hip hop "Back To Life"
About this episode
Rico discusses the impact of Hype Williams and Soul II Soul on hip hop and the film BELLY.
In the '90s, there was no music video director in hip-hop bigger than Hype Williams. And he concentrated all his visual powers on his first (and for now, only) feature film, BELLY (1998): a gangster film that looked—and sounded—like no other, especially its iconic opening heist sequence, set to Soul II Soul's "Back to Life." Rico talks with Soul's songsmith Simon Law about the '80s UK club scene that birthed that megahit track and learns why this once-maligned movie has become required viewin...
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