“When you get to a certain place, if someone has helped you get to where you are, you must help identify younger talent and the mentor to somebody else.” – Sky Gellatily of Team Epiphany
If you only watch one online clip today, let the short film Influencers be that one. Requiring only a 14 minute investment, it’s inspiring more than it’s inspirational. A reminder that people & ideas can combine to make anything happen.
“Influencers is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment. The film attempts to understand the essence of influence, what makes a person influential without taking a statistical or metric approach.
Written and directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson, the film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion and entertainment) who are shaping today’s pop culture. Influencers belongs to the new generation of short films, webdocs, which combine the documentary style and the online experience.”
For more info, visit InfluencersFilm.com and Facebook.com/InfluencersFilm.
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really dope doc’.
Is there a soundtrack for this flick?
Dunno, but i recognized several tracks and that just made watching it that more transcendent IMO.
Thanks.
Video felt like homie just read the Malcolm Gladwell “Tipping Point” book and took some of those principles to make a short visual.
Nice doc. Only thing is, they(no one specifically) keep insisting Lu as a “seed” or a underling of Ye. NOT TRUE. Now this may not be interesting to you, so I’ll make it short. Lupe has been rappin since ’00.(Not just rapping, but in the industry) Lu was the one to give Kanye a shot as a rapper(as you know, he was only a producer) by taking him to the record companies office and having him show his talent. He’s 28. Ye is 33.Ye. Understood. Now everything is straight.
I felt I left on a bad note.uhhhhhh let’s see here….nice things to say about the video…hmmmm oh it was very well designed documentary. I liked how detailed each artist/person influence over various genres. It summed up how important our musical and media figures are, and how powerful they could be. Yeah, I’m a go with that. :)
Hey Lupe
Stay off the Smoking Section and get back to retiring
Or Twitter, thats what you do now right?
Or was it making petitions online…
Fuck, now you’ve confused your last fan.
@ yhcranA kid
I think what some people mean when they put Lupe under Kanye is that yes Lupe was singned to a major before Ye but never got anywhere correct? My understanding is that if it wasn’t for Kanye’s breakthrough in the industry with his whole image and album college dropout, maybe there would be no Lupe’s Cudi’s, Wale’s, J.cole’s. Basically yes lupe was there before kanye, yes groups like ATCQ opened the door but Kanye knocked that shit down for these next artist to go mainstream.
In other words what came first College Dropout or Food & Liquor?
DOPE! im an influencer and didnt even know it!!
Caniblog has a point.
On Lupe and Kanye, I’ve never heard that story so I honestly can’t speak on it. It’d be interesting to see more info showing where either of them spoke on it though.
Not that it’s a perfect example, but what if Jaz never took Jay-Z under his wing?
The thing about influence is someone is always influencing the influencer. Will the original source always be acknowledged? For the most part, no and it’s not out of deceit but for the simple fact that one strand or strange occurrence that they contributed to can cause the other person to take it, run w/it and expand it on a larger level, simply by applying their spin to it.
May not make sense but that’s how I view it. Game comes from all diff areas and we’re all chipping away bits and pieces from others and putting our take on it.
I agree Gotty
Caniblog I like that you used ATCQ for the example of Lupe’s predecessors.
Haven’t watched the video yet but I’m excited, I did a big project on trending and how things do or do not catch on, etc… Art mirrors art, it is cool that all through out history there are reflections of art in music, and literature in art or music, vice versa and so on and so forth.
Gotty – well stated fam.
Drakes whole career is based on acting (imitating who he thinks is hot)
He started in toronto imitating joe budden.. got called out for it
Then he imitated kanye .. got called out for it .. diss tracks ensued
Basically he created a mish mash of style-biting and to this day he still does it
Notice how he speaks with a perfect canadian accent and no grammar problems in interviews but hes on stage throwin down Apalacian accents sayin “yall niggas know what it do beeethchezzzz”
Hey Gotty…whats the song playing during the credits?…
Great vid featuring some well reasoned insights.
Well the way they made it look on the vid, was that Lu was influenced by Ye. Cudi and Drake, were both influenced and they came after Ye. If you listen to Lu, you won’t get Ye. If you listen to Ye, you won’t get Lu. Since that could be said for Cudi and Drake, I felt it was a misused analogy. That is all.