This video was filmed in one take, with audio being recorded simultaneously with the film! The video features Nyle, Philly born veteran of the NYC underground & was produced by Last Pictures & 194 Recordings.

Nyle explains the vid:

“The story behind Let the Beat Build is long and crazy. When Tha Carter III dropped, my friend Jo Bellino hit me up with the idea to cover the song with a live band, and do a video. That never really happened, but since I already had written the rhymes and the song was now permanently stuck in my head, I decided to do it anyway.

Over the months, the idea just snowballed. I asked my friends at 194 Recordings to join the project and together we applied for a grant help make it happen. As I was looking through the list of film students I knew, my friend Nina Reyes-Rosenberg referred me to the guys at Last-Pictures to me. They ended up producing the whole thing. Chadd Harbold directed and Adam Newport Berra DP’d.”

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