Though he was rarely out of the public eye during his stint behind bars (he did, after all, put out a chart-topping album in I Am Not a Human Being while he was incarcerated), Lil Wayne has been greatly missed from the world of music videos. Weezy has always had a sharp eye for killer visual applications to his songs, whether they are low-fi toss-offs ("I'm Single") or high-gloss pieces of cinema ("Got Money").
His just-released video for "6 Foot 7 Foot" (the first song of his post-Rikers career and the first piece of Tha Carter IV) certainly falls in the latter category. Directed by Hype Williams, the clip not only features a much-talked-about tribute to "Inception" (which features Wayne falling into a tub of water in slow motion and also being tossed around in a van, just like the characters in the Christopher Nolan film) but also has a number of excellent special effects. In the key scene, Wayne even loses his head.
Interestingly, the scene above comes right when Wayne spits a line about cutting off heads, and there are a number of images in the clip that are fantastically literal like that (the scenes of Father Time and Mother Nature are especially great). It makes for an excellent visual companion to Wayne's stream-of-consciousness lyrics — it's like being inside Weezy's head at all times.
Recently, Wayne sat down with MTV News' Sway on the set of the video and talked about the evolution of "6 Foot 7 Foot," the growth of his Young Money crew and the status of Tha Carter IV.
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