Here I am digging up some old video appearances… You can find any and everything on the intertubes nowadays!

Bran Van 3000 was basically the pet project of a film director from Montreal called James DiSalvio, hence the line about “came over with a script”. If I recall correctly his family owned a bunch of clubs in the city (I was 14 at the time). I had just won the Montreal DMC championships and this dude James asked me to do a scratch intro for his band’s video… which turned into somewhat of a hit. People at my school didn’t even know I was a DJ yet, so they were all confused when they saw me on TV.

Shades Of Culture were veterans of the Montreal hip hop scene. When my brother and I started doing our thing, these guys were early supporters and a big co-sign for us locally. Dave produced this track off their album, and that’s me at 0:30 DWELLIN IN THE LAB. Please note: Jim Jones wasn’t the first rapper to put sign language in his video.

The Allies = my old DJ crew from my battling days, alongside Craze, Infamous, Develop, Spictakular and J-Smoke. (Later on Klever joined the crew.) In 2000 we made an EP for Asphodel, an experimental record label from San Francisco that also released records by the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, the X-Ecutioners and DJ Spooky. This is the video for Infamous’ song off the EP… In recent years Inf has produced tracks for Lil Wayne (“Mr. Carter”, “I Am Not A Human Being”), Fat Joe (“Hey Joe”), Kid Sister (“Don’t Stop Movin”) and more. This video looks like a school project. #noshamethough

The video for Kanye’s “Workout Plan” was shot in my early days on the Kanye job. I make a comically short appearance at 2:18, next to GLC showing some appreciation for the shapely vixen in front of us. This is probably Kanye’s worst video and includes a vignette with the very forgettable Lil Jon remix. On the bright side, I met Vida Guerra, as well as another video chick who spoke french but whose name escapes me (not Tracey Ross). Here’s a little secret: the man in the bear costume was Don C. This song is also the first time I heard the word “juke” and saw footwork. The talkbox at the end was dope…