Jay-Z's “On To The Next One” Director Explains "Illumanati" Video
When Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz premiered their video for “On To The Next One” on New Year's Eve the world was abuzz with rumors that the Jigga man was confirming rumors that he was in ties with an underground secret society.
The video's dark imagery and gothic undertones led to numerous YouTube videos breaking down the visual to expose the seemingly dark forces behind it and Jay's ties to the Illuminati and FreeMasonry.
Now for the first time the director of the video Sam Brown is speaking out to defend his work.
Brown spoke in an interview with Vibe on his product saying that the “visually illiterate” public got it all wrong, there are no ties with the video to any culture or belief system.
“I think when you're dealing in abstract imagery people are going to want to draw lines between things and make sense of it. However, I've always felt that the viewing public was, in general, extremely visually literate. They don't always want or need things to be spelt out for them. One of the great things about music videos are they can be enjoyed purely visually—it doesn't need to mean anything or make any sense….
There is imagery in this video that is drawn from all over the place. None of it is owned by any one culture or belief system. You can connect anything if you try hard enough, and make it mean anything you want it to.”
He also added to Vibe that while Jay gave him a “loose brief” of the concept for the video, ultimately the idea for the video was his.
“He gave me a very loose brief, and made it clear that we should be progressive with the video. All the imagery was thought up by me and was a response to the track itself.
For those interested, the idea is actually about a funeral for old imagery and ideas, hence all the gothic and oppressive stuff. I was also trying to contradict the excess of hip-hop videos by making something brutally simple and claustrophobic.”
See? It all makes sense now.
Jay's not illumanati, Sam Brown is....right?
Please...get a life people, it's all abstract.
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Believe that if you want to. Jay knows exactly what he is doing...director may or may not be being truthful, doesn't matter. It IS what it is and Jay, one day, will have to pay when Satan himself comes to collect his soul. If he were really smart, he would be on the winning side...too dumb, obviously to know the difference!
This proves that jay-z and sam are both Freemasons...it's a well known fact that jay-z often uses directors that "worship the devil"....try again Danielle
Why does everything have to be a conspiracy theory?
It's also a known fact that Jay-Z is a fan of artwork. That diamond skull in the video is a replica of a Damien Hirst piece that sold for $100 million. http://www.bikerumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/damien-hirst-diamond-skull.jpg
Why can't the rest of the images be as simple as that? Abstract art.
Maybe the director's right, maybe we're all just visually illiterate and it's going over our heads.
Thoughts?
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Dang Danielle u sound silly!!! Its all abstract art? Really? Ok...maybe u have no religion, beliefs, or spirituality but if u watch the video from beginning 2 end u will c that there is a lot of evil n the video...r u really feeding into the whole "abstract art" idea?! How weak-minded ur thinking exactly how THEY want u 2 think! And to think, I thought Bossip would have smarter ppl workin 4 them...smh! Maybe in his next video he should just hold up a sign that says "I WORSHIP THA DEVIL" then u will believe him. PEOPLE PLZ DONT FEED INTO THIS. "Its abstract art" BULL...ITS OBVIOUS WHAT JAY-Z IS DOING...WHETER IT B FOR MONEY OR NOT, ITS EVIL!!!
I think that the owners and writers of Bossip have been paid off to deny the relationship between Jay Z, Rhianna, Beyonce, Kanye and many others to the illuminati. They only write about it to show face and because everyone is talking about it. I remember when they first started writing about the illuminati they seemed more open to the possibility of the existence of the illuminati. Now, they're trying to clown anyone that's starting to question these artists.
Hey Bossip! Wanna tell me who wrote the line "do what thou wilt"? Jay z can be found wearing it on his clothes.
[...] “He gave me a very loose brief, and made it clear that we should be progressive with the video. All the imagery was thought up by me and was a response to the track itself. For those interested, the idea is actually about a funeral for old imagery and ideas, hence all the gothic and oppressive stuff. I was also trying to contradict the excess of hip-hop videos by making something brutally simple and claustrophobic.” – link [...]
I call bull*****. People have been saying this stuff about him since he came out. So what compelled someone to come out in the media all of a sudden? Maybe first time director, who fears that he won't get another job because his first video has been pulled a part for having satanic and anti-Christian imagery.
[...] However, this week showed the first response from Jay and company, and Mike was kind enough to take things one step further by sending me this link to a posting about an interview with the Director of “On To The Next One”, Sam Brown. http://hiphopwired.com/2010/01/13/“on-to-the-next-one”-director-explains-video/ [...]
[...] Jay-Z’s “On To The Next One” Director Explains “Illumanati” Video When Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz premiered their video for “On To The Next One” on New Year's Eve the world was abuzz [...] [...]
If was all in the directors head why does Jay throw up 3 finger through out the video? He representing 3rd degree masons. Honestly its deeper than just this video. Hov stands for Jahovah. He's creating a cult through music hence the sign of the Roc- I.e John D Rockefeller- look it up. There are masonic symbols like the "left eye" printed all over his clothing line that everyone wears. The skull and bones symbol loosely tied to freemasons is apart of his clothing line too. He blantently does the mason handshake in public. If world domination is this societies agenda then making such a boisterous rapper a 3rd degree is both stupid and ingenious. Here he is giving away what he's supposed to keep secret- but being so blunt with his *****ociation is a causing a kind of cult like following. Next time u see someone not being payed the throw up the roc ask them if Jesus died for their sins
I agree, I kinda thought about it too. I doubt he's a devil worshiper though. Its interesting how everyone is saying " the illuminati" is exisiting or is present. In my opinion, I don't believe there is or any artist is apart of it at all. Im not stupid but this is my opinion. Many artists go to museums and art shows. Many artists have showcased what his video showed. Which is abstract art! Its in many modern museums. He deffinitly went to an exhibit I wanted to see in theb museum of modern art.
Remember " art is what you can get away with-andy warhol". I stand by it but all these symobilic representations are *****! You can believe what you want to believe. But I love to thank Dan Brown for all thsi illuminati talk because it shows how many people believe its "real" the "illuminati exists" and how many idiotts believe its real =)
I guess you can say how many of you art intelligent. You all lack in it for those who believe in it!