Music Video Director Taj on Directing for Rihanna, Beef with BET & More

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🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Taj talks about building his career as a director, which artists are the best to work with, Rihanna, BET, the industry, and more! ------ 00:00 Intro 0:05 Taj talks about BET not nominating his work 7:05 Early beginnings coming out of East Oakland 8:25 Taj on learning to create videos 9:50 Leaving audio engineering to pursue music videos 11:25 Taj's influences coming up 12:34 Taj talks about how he got recognized by AE 17:20 Taj talks about getting signed and his first big video starring Rihanna 24:18 Taj on what it takes to be a Director 25:44 Taj expresses the importance of a solid editor 32:00 T-Rell says that Taj needs his own documentary 36:00 Taj speaks on falling out with Colin Tilley 42:00 Taj on the difference between high and low budget music videos 43:28 Taj speaks on his creative parenting style 46:20 Taj speaks on growth and relationship building 51:10 Recent work with Too Short 53:05 Working on TV show “The Therapist” and why he got YG involved 56:15 Taj names his favorite artists to work with 58:00 Taj speaks on his worst experience, on set 1:01:00 Taj talks about wanting to be on No Jumper 1:02:10 Taj clears the air on BET conflict ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right y'all, no jumper man.
0:02.0	I'm back man.
0:03.1	You hear with T-Rail?
0:04.2	Got my boy co-hosts in the game and boy Trevor.
0:06.8	I'm here with a special guest right now.
0:10.7	Somebody I really been wanting to interview for a while.
0:14.4	I really wanted to speak to you for me
0:17.0	because he's done a lot for the culture.
0:19.6	And I feel like being a little bit unappreciated.
0:24.5	So I'm here with my boy Taj.
0:26.8	What's the deal?
0:27.6	Man, I appreciate it bro.
0:30.7	The deal is, that's why I'm here.
0:32.8	This is why I reached out while I was on you a little bit
0:36.8	while I'm on everybody else because I realized that.
0:40.5	It's not even really just so much about the respect, right?
0:42.5	Like I could be doing what I'm doing for the rest of my life
0:45.5	and be extremely happy.
0:47.2	I love what I do.
0:48.9	But it low key hurts my feelings, bro,
0:53.0	that BET of all places has never nominated me for something.
0:58.1	And this is not about BET.
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