So about a month after releasing it, the video got put on the front page of Youtube and Myspace, MTV2 picked it up with no payola and very little censorship, and Itunes put it for sale. We wound up with half a million views and a cult classic. We only entered it into one festival/competition which is the main one for Music Videos: the MVPA Awards.

We were nominated out of hundreds of entries for best hip hop video of 2008. We were next to Aesop Rock, Snoop Dogg, and Common, so we were happy, and it proves that if you put love and care into a project the people will respond and doors will open. It lead to us getting the number one music video rep in the country Tommy Labuda, and signing with Bucks Boys production company. We now share offices with them and have gone on to direct many more videos and look back at all the hard work of the Artsy video with love and a feeling of justice. Good hip hop will outshine the bullshit and good creative videos will get noticed! Thanks to all the blogs and internet awards we won. Thanks to SPIN magazine making us top 5 “Things you should watch!” (next to that illy Bjork video by Encyclopedia Pictura). Stephen Gottlieb at videostatic for the link up. Thanks to everyone that helped make that video possible. Daniel Blanco you are a Venezualen Beast! Ariel Shepard for the funny ass illustrations! Reel Roots for putting up with me and Ryan on a retardedly long shoot day (first of many, I know, I know) Secret History is now on the map!

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