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So cool. Not a very groundbreaking idea, but I don’t know who else has done this THIS well. His mic should be cut a bit, but otherwise it’s a great idea and I hope it catches on.

From Nyle’s website:

Picture a music video that has all of these features:

* The whole thing is one take
* Audio recorded at the same time its filmed
* Filmed in a room that starts empty, and musicians “seemingly” appear from nowhere
* Has a ridiculously sexy rapper

The story behind Let the Beat Build is long and crazy. When Tha Carter III dropped, my friend Jo Bellino hit me up with the idea to cover the song with a live band, and do a video. That never really happened, but since I already had written the rhymes and the song was now permanently stuck in my head, I decided to do it anyway.

Over the months, the idea just snowballed. I asked my friends at 194 Recordings to join the project and together we applied for a grant help make it happen. As I was looking through the list of film students I knew, my friend Nina Reyes-Rosenberg referred me to the guys at Last-Pictures to me. They ended up producing the whole thing. Chadd Harbold directed and Adam Newport Berra DP’d.

Nyle “Let The Beat Build” from Nyle on Vimeo.

Practice run and from the music pit:

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