This was created in 2007 … I was applying for a gig to do animated music videos… they asked to create one using any song that I wanted to, Dilla had passed away the year before and I was sitting on a bunch of footage that I thought would work with it and wanted to do something than just a straight animation. The footage was from an annual Hoboken tradition that like of most “Old Hoboken” is gone now, where on 6th and Bloomfield st., The Altomare’s would have a crazy firework display to ring in the New Year….. and by crazy … I mean it… it would last anywhere from 45 minutes to almost an hour and half hahahahah it was amazing…… So what better to use in “Lightworks”…. so I edited all the video footage in Final Cut, and made the animations in what was then Adobe Flash… now Animate…. then composited it in After Effects.

So this serves as a tribute to one.. the great James Yancey…. aka Jay Dee aka J-DILLA as well as those most amazing times during those New Year’s Eve celebrations …