There’s a lot of lighting-up in Matthew Walker’s video for Skepta’s Castles. Following a recent tradition of vids that concentrate heavily on the smoking of the weed, it looks like Matt might have struggled to maintain his focus – especially as he was lighting the video himself. “I’m happy with how the smoking scenes came [...]

After Skepta’s Hold On – where the grime star plays an athlete struggling to compete in an ultimately uplifting narrative – Matthew Walker’s latest video for Skepta moves everything into full-on party mode. Matthew used the new Sony F65 to capture the action – he says it’s the first UK promo to use the camera. [...]

Matthew Walker’s promo for Skepta’s Hold On – following up his video for the UK rapper’s So Alive (featuring N Dubz) earlier this year – oscillates between a performance and a story of Skepta as an athlete on the comeback trail – with legendary British sprinter Darren Campbell as his coach. Skepta Hold On (AATW/Universal) [...]

The video for Skepta vs N-Dubz’s So Alive is doing great figures on YouTube – over 2.5 million views and counting – which is an amazing result for up and coming director Matthew Walker and his production company Staple House’s first proper label commission. Matthew and cameraman Joe Dyer shot Skepta and N-Dubz in front [...]

With Skepta’s video for Amnesia director Ben Peters and producer Luti Fagbenle had 48 hours to pull together a shoot in Ibiza, telling the story of the grime star’s mysterious memory loss. “Nothing to do but party I thought,” says Luti. “Somehow we did that and shoot this video at the same time courtesy of [...]

For the follow-up to the Top 30 Bad Boy, UK grime act Skepta (aka Joseph Junior Adenuga) teams up with director Shane Davey for the vari-tempoed Rescue Me. Focusing on the melancholy of the music and the isolated nature of the lyric, Shane shot the promo at the renowned Benenden Hospital in rural Kent. Skepta [...]

Mo, one of the new generation of directors inspired by the British urban scene, has found a new home at Flynn Productions. Mo, who joins Flynn following the closure of Draw Pictures, has created stylish, poundstretching work for the likes of Tinchy Stryder, Wiley, Chipmunk, Lethal Bizzle and Skepta. But check out his original, all-guns-blazing [...]

Skepta gets a sexy, cool, graphic video directed by Mo. It was made on a frayed shoestring, but that’s not proved an impediment to Mo giving this a classy and sophisticated look. Those FX belong in a video with a proper budget. Skepta Sunglasses At Night Production Company: Mo/Draw Pictures Director/Producer: Mo DoP: Stein Stie [...]