Upperhands Vintage Video : The Pharcyde - Drop with "Making of" Documentary featuring Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze virtually owned the music video industry throughout the 1990's

and has continued on into 2013 to produce and direct some of the foremost examples

of top notch American film and music video making.  

Just to blow your minds before we discuss The Pharcyde "Drop" video, 

here are my 5 "Random Instant Classics" Spike Jonze videos of all time : 

Take a moment to watch them all... you'll thank me later.

You're Welcome.

Dinosaur JR - I Feel The Pain

Lakai Fully Flared Intro 

M83 - Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun

Kanye West - Flashing Lights

Beastie Boys - Don't Play No Games Ft. SantiGold

Notorious B.I.G. - Sky's The Limit Ft. 112

When it came time for Spike Jonze to work with The Pharcyde, he decided to use a new 

technique that he had experimented with the video for "Sure Shot" by the Beastie Boys.

Spike Jonze directed the Beastie Boys to slow down their delivery with their mouths and bodies 

so that when Jonze put it into slow mo, the lyrics would match with their mouth movement.

Beastie Boys - Sure Shot

Why the hell is the thumbnail for this video a photo of Chloe Sevigny? 

KIDS represent. 

Spike Jonze's new technique for shooting the "Drop" video was to have the guys do the entire video shoot backwards. Oh and did I mention that they were going to do each scene in one take?

Hailed as one of the classics of 90's Hip Hop, 

The Pharcyde released "Drop" as their follow up to their hit song "Runnin" which featured

a switched lifestyle in which the Pharcyde were rich slave owners of white slaves serving

them at their parties. It's a classic joint, but let's get back to the program.

"Drop" and "Runnin" is produced by the late Jay Dee who also produced 

numerous other tracks on the album "Labcabincalifornia" seen below.

Spike Jonze challenged the members of The Pharcyde to learn and create a completely different language and act the entire shoot backwards. Little did he know that The Pharcyde were more 

than up for the challenge and went beyond even their language teacher's expectations.

Still from video

Still from video

Upperhands presents : "Drop" by The Pharcyde and Spike Jonze

See if you can spot Ad Rock and Mike D rollin down Broadway.

Upperhands presents : "Drop" by The Pharcyde and Spike Jonze

The Making of Documentary

Special Thanks to : Spike Jonze, Nerdy white guys who like skateboarding, Audible Ale, Charlie Hustle, PED's, being a Yankee twice in a decade ... no, not Ricky Henderson ... no, not Andy Pettite ... Alphonso Soriano, Yankees geriatrics squad, Simoneau frothing at the mouth over the 49ers in 2013-14, The Pharcyde, Wishing the Pharcyde stayed together and killed it for 10 more years. 

Vice Magazine - VBS.tv - Epicly Later'd - Skateboarding Addicts

Patrick O'Dell - Epicly Later'd's Producer

Whether you are a fan of Vice Magazine, skateboarding, edgy journalism or all three, 

you will definitely enjoy Vice Magazine's video offspring. 

Served in major cities around the world's high - end hip -hop clothing shops, Vice Magazine is by far the greatest free publication of all time. Filled with groundbreaking photography, writing and journalists who do not know the meaning of holding back for a story, Vice Magazine has long been a staple in the print world since 1994.

With the advent of Youtube and Vimeo being on every website under the sun, Vice Magazine along with director Spike Jonze sought out to create the digital video equivalent to their magazine and they have succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. 

VBS.tv creates a virtual magazine for subjects like:

Human Rights issues

the Vice Guide to Travel

Current Events

Obscure visions into the rest of the world

Important Artists who are changing the world

Modern Science

and

Skateboarding.

Patrick O'dell is the genius behind some of the most in depth and current biographies on some of the greatest skateboarders of the past, present and future. 

Chock full of videos representing skateboarding from around the entire world,

Epicly Later'd is the foremost place for all that is skateboarding and documentary. 

Ryan O'dell gains such inside access to the skateboard scene that it is almost 

as if he is a pro skater himself... even if he's just a video nerd who loves skating.

Here's a screen shot of the video interface on VBS.tv's Epicly Later'd page.

Below the video screen is a plethora of videos to keep you rollin' on the concrete and grinding those rails for days.

Special thanks to: After Hours Promoters who don't know the meaning of friendship, the internet, Tom Coughlin, insanely tight Presidential election, Bill Maher putting my entire life into perspective, children who inspire me to be better at what I do, taking a dump while on the phone, learning how to change host files in Mac OSX (Don't ask).