{"id":2447109,"date":"2019-08-02T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=866761"},"modified":"2019-08-02T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:20:14","slug":"teyana-taylor-directs-her-own-retro-video-for-hywi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/teyana-taylor-directs-her-own-retro-video-for-hywi\/","title":{"rendered":"Teyana Taylor Directs Her Own Retro Video for \u2018HYWI?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/teyana-taylor-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/teyana-taylor\/\">Teyana Taylor<\/a> pays tribute to innovative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/music-video\/\" id=\"auto-tag_music-video\" data-tag=\"music-video\">music video<\/a> director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hype-williams\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hype-williams\" data-tag=\"hype-williams\">Hype Williams<\/a> in her new visual for \u201cHYWI?\u201d, her latest single featuring the rapper King Combs.<\/p>\n<p>The video, directed by Taylor herself (credited as Teyana \u201cSpike Lee\u201d Taylor), references the hip-hop and R&amp;B videos of the late Nineties and early aughts, particularly those by prolific director Hype Williams. Video credits are displayed at the beginning and end of the clip \u2013 just like it would be if it were airing on MTV \u2013 and Taylor\u2019s gender-flipping fashion matches the style of the era. There\u2019s even a staged recreation of the iconic \u201cfish-eye\u201d tunnel seen in the Williams video for the Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gUhRKVIjJtw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMo Money Mo Problems\u201d<\/a> featuring Mase and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/puff-daddy\/\">Puff Daddy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor previously released the video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/teyana-taylor-asap-rocky-issues-hold-on-video-808916\/\">\u201cIssues\/Hold On,\u201d<\/a> a track from her 2018 album&nbsp;<em>K.T.S.E.<\/em> featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/aap-rocky\/\">A$AP Rocky<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/teyana-taylor-wtp-video-queer-ballroom-783624\/\">the NSFW clip for \u201cWTP,\u201d<\/a> featuring a slew of queer artists and performers. This week, she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rick-ross-port-of-miami-2-track-list-meek-mill-nipsey-hussle-866537\/\">announced<\/a> as a guest vocalist on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rick-ross\/\">Rick Ross\u2019s<\/a> forthcoming album <em>Port of Miami 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/teyana-taylor-king-combs-hywi-video-866761\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teyana Taylor pays tribute to innovative music video director Hype Williams in her new visual for \u201cHYWI?\u201d, her latest single featuring the rapper King Combs. The video, directed by Taylor herself (credited as Teyana \u201cSpike Lee\u201d Taylor), references the hip-hop and R&amp;B videos of the late Nineties and early aughts, particularly those by prolific director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 18:05:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}