My HsinChu connection just tipped me off to a really hilarious interview with X-Men 3 director Brett Ratner that was posted in Complex not too long ago about his start in the video industry via early 90′s hip hop and R&B. Ratner sits down to reveal some of his favourite stories involving the making of six iconic urban videos which include Public Enemy’s “Louder Than A Bomb”, Redman’s “Tonight’s Da Night”, Heavy D’s “Nuttin’ But Love”, Jodeci’s “Freek N’ U”, D’Angelo’s “Brown Sugar”, and the million dollar Wu Tang epic, “Triumph”.

Ratner admits all kinds of stuff including the whole Wu Tang clan being fucked on mushrooms for the filming of Triumph and Redman getting Ratner to include his mom in the filming of “Tonight’s Da Night” so he could show a “white hoe” buying drugs from him. Great stories here behind some late golden era hip hop.

- Dr. No