Prodigy To Release H.N.I.C. Pt. 2: The DVD Collection on June 17th
Jordan Tower who produced the majority of the H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 video including "Dirty New Yorker," "Get Trapped," "I Want Out," "When I See You," "Young Veterans," "Veteran's Memorial" "Clik Clak," "Field Marshal P," "Go," and more says Prodigy called him the day after he was sentenced originally to film his life as a reality show concept and the experience between the two creative minds led to a series of videos that were filmed in the most unique circumstances. Jordan shares, "I basically lived with P for two weeks and we filmed 24 hours around the clock. He was completely focused and every now then he'd go into a zone, like he was a man running out of time. He knew that he wouldn't be around to promote the album, so he wanted to give his fans some visuals before he left. I was really impressed with his work ethic. If he wasn't shooting a video, he was doing interviews. We filmed an extra 10 videos that the label will have available to service over time. The production and concept of the videos was a joint effort; there was nothing really scripted. We used our resources. Like in 'Get Trapped,' there was short dialogue that turns into a mini-movie. P has created his own independent full-feature films before so it's nothing for him to venture from music video concepts to actually filming, acting, and creating a story line. A lot of our filming was organic. For 'Dough,' we just happened to be going to a friend's mansion, we invited people over and it turned into a barbecue scene; next thing you know Arie Deutsch came over and he had a hook-up with a private jet, so we ended up filming from the sky. For 'Veteran's Memorial' which pays tribute to people P has lost in his life, we happened to be driving past a graveyard so we hopped out and filmed there. Whatever we couldn't get done is still possible because we also filmed videos in front of white, black, and green screen so that different backgrounds can be added for the future if needed. We used our resources and adapted everything flipping the script depending on what was happening around us. He'd bring a change of clothes with him just so he could film more than one video a day. It was crazy seeing P change clothes, flip personas from video to video. At some point, we ran out of clothes filming. He was pretty intent on leaving us enough to work with because he knew his time was limited."
Produced by The Alchemist, Havoc, Steve Sola to name a few, the album is released by Voxonic Music in association with AAO/Reality. Peter Kuys, chairman of AAO "Prodigy is such a great dark storyteller, that the concept of allowing people the visual images for all his H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 songs, was an overwhelming opportunity in this ever increasing visual world." Arie Deutsch adds, "Prodigy has left us with such an incredible album and the visuals just accentuate the music artistically."
While H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 (currently in-stores) enjoys high positioning on the Billboard Sales Charts: Billboard Top 40 Album Sales Chart #36; Billboard's Rap/Hip-Hop Sales Chart at #3 (preceded only by Mariah Carey and Ric Ross); the single for "the Life," debuted at #1 on Billboard's Top Single Sales Chart.
H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 : The Video Collection reaches retail shelves and website etailers June 17th.






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