Director

DAPS

Headie One plays a bank robber with imaginative attitude to his accumulated wealth, in DAPS's visually arresting video for Pound Signs.DAPS gets pulses racing from the start with a heist, where Headie gets heavy on the approaching cops. Then he heads to the laundrette and is literally rolling in £50 notes, before a high stakes card game reaches an electrifiying climax.Employing a clever use of camera movement and a fluidity across the visuals, DoP Sam Meyer's cinematography elevates the ambitious concept, and a suitably gritty grade helps tie everything together.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]

United Kingdom

Tony Longe

Creativs Label

Cr8tive Row

Nadya Persaud

Emily Mulkerrins

Chris Malin

Sam Meyer

Louis Vella

James Tilyard

Steve Cameron

Charlotte Toon

Raya Dias

Michelle Vernege

Post Calton

Kinan Chabani

Mitrofanov Dmitriy, Daniel Longe

Headie One

Elena Argiros

Relentless

Inga Veronique

Amara Rossell

Hip Hop

Grime

Headie One 'Pound Signs' by DAPS

Headie-One-'Pound-Signs'-by-Daps

The latest visuals from director DAPS for the upcoming rapper B Young captures his performance together with some old-school phone conversations by his lady friends in some specially converted phone boxes.The B-Y phone&nbsp;boxes are arranged in a row in front of a fountain that&#39;s situated in&nbsp;Canary Wharf, with the skyline of skyscrapers beyond. This is not often used for video shoots, but the effect of&nbsp;giving the video a touch of international glamour is undeniable.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Luti Media

Oscar Adams

Afzal Robanni

Olan Collardy

Malte Huebner

Jason Weidner

Mark Stewart

Jade Mortimer

Alex Gregory

The Mill

Jamie Cox

Ross Anderson

B Young 'Juice' by DAPS

B-Young-'Juisce'-by-Daps

Migos &amp; Drake&nbsp;give it the full Soul Train treatment (redubbed&nbsp;Culture Ride) in Daps &amp; Quavo&#39;s video for Walk It Talk It, with Jamie Foxx doing a deadpan turn as the show&#39;s Don Cornelius-like host.&nbsp;Nice hair, guys...

United States

Quavo

Sara Lacombe

Joseph Desrosiers

Corey Jennings

Zoe Costello

Rasheeda Ameera

Kevin Kloecker

Migos ft Drake 'Walk It Talk It' by Daps & Quavo

Migos - Walk It Talk It ft. Drake

2017 is panning out to be big year for Daps. His ongoing association with Atlanta&nbsp;superstar rappers Migoshas thrust him into&nbsp;the front rank of hip hop video directors in the US. And now his video for Migos&#39;s Bad And&nbsp;Boujee is now up a Best Music Video prize at the 2017 BET Awards this month.&nbsp;But the towering Nigerian-born director (above, right) also has a foot in London too, working wth grime king Stormzy&nbsp;among others on this side of the pond.&nbsp;So we thought it was time for a quick catch-up and find out more about Daps...What&rsquo;s your background, when did you start directing? And what&rsquo;s your real name? My legal name is Oladapo Fagbenle, but I&rsquo;ve been called Daps since I was born.&nbsp;I started directing in 2013. Prior to that I was producing videos so that&rsquo;s where I learned everything.&nbsp;In the past year you&rsquo;ve directed all of Migos&rsquo;s music videos. What&rsquo;s the key to your relationship with them? It&rsquo;s more than business - we&rsquo;re cool in real life. Creatively, we just merge. I liked their music prior to meeting them and they bring crazy energy to the scenes. Similar to how I&rsquo;m cool with Wizkid, Davido, or Stormzy in real life. Everyone I direct videos for, it&rsquo;s easier when you have a rapport with the artist.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>&quot;It&rsquo;s more than business - we&rsquo;re cool in real life. Creatively, we just merge.&quot; DAPS (front) with Migos</blockquote>The Bad &amp; Boujee video put a different, somewhat tongue-in-cheek spin on hiphop aspiration, and now has become something of a phenomenon. What was the inspiration for the video? It&rsquo;s crazy how big it&rsquo;s become. I love putting juxtapositions in my videos so I knew I wanted to do that with Bad &amp; Boujee. The video is basically the title: Bad (good looking women) and&nbsp;Boujee (affluent, proper, or even stuck up). So I inserted those women into environments you&rsquo;d never find them in &ndash; but had them acting perfectly normal in those environments.[vidtoken data:0]​Now the video is nominated at the BETs in June. Will you be attending the ceremony? And do you fancy your chances? I&rsquo;ll be there, ha! Well we&rsquo;re up against some big time videos but hopefully we can pull it off.You co-directed the T-shirt video with Quavo from the band. How did that work in practice? What did he bring to that role? Where did you shoot it, and did the snow and ice make it a more challenging experience than normal? That video was shot in Lake Tahoe, California. Quavo initially proposed a video involving snow and ice, and I then transformed that into a play on the movie&nbsp;The Revenant. The film is based on people that kill animals for fur. The technical name for those people are &ldquo;trappers&rdquo;. Migos are &ldquo;trap&rdquo; artists. So the whole video is an alternative trap universe. The snow is the drugs, the bows and arrows are the weapons. Trap rappers wearing trapper outfits while trapping.[vidtoken data:1]The snow was a workout! Trudging equipment through all that. And the cold made it difficult too but it was well worth it.You&rsquo;ve also worked in the UK in the past year, with Stormzy. How different an experience is it working in the UK compared to the US? The biggest difference in working in the UK is that the weather is never definite, ha ha. Other than that, I think the US is more suited and used to lavish street videos. But I like working in both.Having being born (and lived) in Nigeria, growing up in London, living in America &ndash; it&rsquo;s a blessing and unique position artistically. I understand cultures from all three places. So it enables me to work with a 2 Chainz, and a Stormzy and an Afrobeats artist whilst really understanding where they&rsquo;re coming from.[imgtoken data:2]<blockquote>&quot;It&rsquo;s easier when you have a rapport with the artist&quot; Daps with Stormzy (right)</blockquote>Is the latest Migos video for Slippery a return to a more old school hiphop video style? The main parts of the video were shot at Quavo&rsquo;s birthday party, so it was great to pick up that real life footage. The video can be seen as a nod to the hiphop videos of yesteryear, but I still do my best to add my flavour in there. The composed shots, the gazing into the camera, etc.What&rsquo;s do you think is the most important thing you need to make a good or great hiphop video these days? You need to be able to differentiate yourself from the typical while not going too far left. You can&rsquo;t lose the audience &ndash; they like what they like. But the trick is give them what they&rsquo;re used to seeing but adding some sort of twist to it. &nbsp;&bull; Daps is represented by Inga Veronique at Luti Media US and Nadya Persaud at Luti Media UK

Q&A: Daps on working with Migos and Stormzy, and adding a twist to the mainstream

Migos-'Bad-And-Boujee'-by-Daps-

Migos - T-Shirt [Official Video]

Migos are involved in some slippery fun at a Miami pool party, in&nbsp;Daps&#39;s latest video for the Atlanta rappers. &nbsp;

Maya Table

Anthony Kimata

Marco Alvarez

Deji LaRay

Robert Curreri

Migos ft Gucci Mane 'Slippery' by Daps

Migos - Slippery feat. Gucci Mane [Official Video]

The smell of money brings Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln back to life in Daps&#39;s latest collaboration with Migos for Deadz.&nbsp;

Nadya Persaud @ Luti Media

Migos ft. 2 Chainz 'Deadz' by Daps 

Migos---Deadz-Feat.-2-Chainz-'Deadz'-by-Daps-

Stormzy does a victory lap of his London home, and with the help of DAPS he suberts some classic grime video tropes along the way.&nbsp;A mashup of performances from various corners of London and in various garments, Stormzy dominates the screen in every shot. Instead of the video being a complete boys&#39; club, Stormzy celebrates his all-girl crew in the video too - including Ray BLK.Killer streetwear and cool composition make it seem like Stormzy&#39;s&nbsp;whole life is an endless fashion shoot, which is no bad thing.

Antoine Dixon-Bellot

Mastermind Media

Anouska Cope

Ben Keswick

Stefan Yap

Daniel Kolditz

Jack Plumridge

Sonny Horwell

Mark Henry/ Safiya Yekwai/ Lauren Brown

Samantha Neal

Arthur Graham-Maw

Creep Post

Stormzy 'Big For Your Boots' by DAPS 

Stormzy-'Big-For-Your-Boots-'-by-Daps-

Their song Bad And Boujee was namechecked by Donald Glover at The Golden Globes a&nbsp;few days ago, as he collected his award for Best TV Series - Comedy or Musical for his show Atlanta,&nbsp;as the &quot;best song ever&quot;. Now Atlanta&#39;s own Migos are feeding anticipation for the new album Culture, with three new videos &ndash; including this one directed by DAPS and bandmember Quavo for T-Shirt.There&#39;s a big nod to The Revenant, and&nbsp;also&nbsp;to the aforementioned Bad And Boujee. Migos like hanging out with the most glamourous ladies - and treating them well.

Migos 'T-Shirt' by DAPS, Quavo

Daps&#39;s video for Migos&#39; Bad and Boujee is pretty damn awesome.Nice to see these guys taking their ladies out and treating them right.

Migos 'Bad And Boujee' by Daps 

Nyla takes centre stage in Sneakbo&#39;s beach party video for Too Cool (Right Here).

Lex Lewter

Luti Fagbenle

John Moule

Universal

Sneakbo Ft Nyla 'Too Cool (Right Here)' by Daps

Sneakbo-Ft-Nyla-'Too-Cool-(right-Here)'-by-Daps

A suitably baddass fantasy&nbsp;for the pulchitrudinous&nbsp;Niykee Heaton by Daps, which&nbsp;starts with her&nbsp;robbing a bank in a swimsuit with Migos. After that, she slips into something more comfortable - which is bad news for the Migos boys.&nbsp;

Nbk Productions

Marc Love

Max Blum

Capitol Records

R&B, Hip Hop

Niykee Heaton ft. Migos 'Bad Intentions' by Daps

Niykee-Heaton-Ft.-Migos-'Bad-Intentions'-by-Daps

Director DAPS has paired with Atlanta-based hip hop trio&nbsp;Migos to create a polished, glitzy&nbsp;performance video for Cocoon - which is all about status, drugs and&nbsp;women. The trio&nbsp;perform the track, hang out, and smoke up&nbsp;with a group of scantily clad ladies,&nbsp;surrounded by draped furniture and high ceilings of a stately home.&nbsp;

Quality Control Music

Stefano Moses

Aaron Reid

Gareth Harris

Yasmin Godo

Migos 'Cocoon' by DAPS

Migos - Cocoon (Official Music Video)

Director Fabien Montique has delivered this slick, edgy video for&nbsp;Iggy Azalea&#39;s new single Team, co-directed by Daps who also worked as a creative on Iggy Azalea&rsquo;s Fancy and Black Widow.It was an audacious production where producers shut down an airport and vandalised a private jet to help create Fabien&rsquo;s vision.&quot;The video lives between reality and dream states,&quot; Fabien has explained. &quot;I wanted to create a visual with Iggy that captured elements of establishment, youth and&nbsp;disruption with filmic&nbsp;sensibilities.&rdquo;Furthermore, Fabien has now cemented&nbsp;his long-term relationship with&nbsp;Luti Media by joining their directors roster.&nbsp;&quot;I am excited for this new chapter as a director with Luti Media,&quot; he says. &quot;I started to work with them in 2012 on a Kanye West fashion documentary, and since then we have collaborated on some of the biggest moments in my image-making career.&quot;

Australia

Fabien Montique

Paul Bock

Lauren Soille

Jamar Hawkins

Jeffery Kinball

Gloria FX

John Holloway

Kiyah Wright

Lora Arellano

Tricia Miranda

Nadya Persaud Nadya Persaud @ Luti Media

Alejandra Hernandez

Hip-Hop

Iggy Azalea 'Team' by Fabien Montique - now signed to Luti Media

Iggy Azalea - Team (Explicit)

Closely following the release of his highly anticipated and acclaimed album&nbsp;To Pimp A Butterfly,&nbsp;Kendrick Lamar&#39;s video for the funky, confrontational King Kunta&nbsp;keeps it local - presenting his home turf of Compton and its denizens in an ultra-fresh way.Director X&#39;s video celebrates Kendrick&#39;s roots - and makes it cinematic despite (or possibly because of) its unusual square format. Very cool.

Director X

John Lathan

Missy Galandia

Ev Salomon

Isaac Bauman

Matt Taylor

Paul Monroe

Isaac Rice

Austin Barbera

Ethan Cole

Juan Mabson

Kendrick Lamar 'King Kunta' by Director X

Daps incorporates iPhone footage - shot by the social media-savvy&nbsp;singer herself - in the promo to Jordin Sparks&#39;&nbsp;new single Double Tap, featuring an animated performance from 2 Chainz.

Yousef Muhammed

Honey Lathan

Johnny Chin

Stephen Crocker

Duvall Adams

Kah Li Haslam

Life Garland

Jordin Sparks ft 2 Chainz 'Double Tap' by Daps

Dappy joins forces with Daps for this emotional tale of love-gone-wrong in the promo for Beautiful Me&nbsp;where the director portrays the&nbsp;former N-Dubz frontman&nbsp;in a more adult light - contrasting with Dappy&#39;s previous wild personas...

Chance Wilson

Sadie Ama

George Nelson

Guy Davies

Charlie Whiteway

Portobello Post

Lavinia Noel

Paul Cavanagh, Mara Lubieniecki, Milo Bouquet, Jess Owen, Feona Mali

Dappy 'Beautiful Me' by Daps

Creative director Fabien Montique and rapper DAPS join forces for this cool mash-up of street bravado, fashion and art to partner DAPS&#39;&nbsp;track Ian Wright - with a guest appearance from the legendary Arsenal striker himself.DAPS didn&#39;t want a completely typical rap video, hence the usage of flares and the DeLorean; a cult classic from one of his favourite movies. And quite apart from&nbsp;the amazing gull-winged car, they wanted to do something no UK artist had done before. So they shut down Piccadilly Circus...&nbsp;

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