Video Music Box: Raekwon - House of Flying Daggers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdG3fgBZZbI

For the second Video Music Box, here is Raekwon's video for "House of Flying Daggers", which features Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, and Method Man. It is produced by the late J Dilla.

Directed by Eric Sasso and Brian Wendelken for Chain Gang Productions, the video is an animated effort. It features an intro by RZA that isn't in the song. The story begins with RZA explaining the events.There was a massacre at Shaolin, that was apparently the work of one thousand warriors. A legendary assassin known as The Hunter was seen there. But then RZA drops the bomb... The Hunter had nothing to do with it... and it was only five.

Cue the song. The song... fuck the song is awesome. I remember when ?uestlove leaked it on Twitter and Raekwon followed up the next day, dropping a CD quality version.

Anyway, the video shows the five (Raekwon, Deck, Ghost, Meth, and GZA) just kicking the shit out of warriors, but in between, it shows their fighting style. For exampe, Inspectah Deck is "Scorpion style" which means he can apparently kick your fucking brain out of your skull and onto the ground. Raekwon is "Toad style", meaning he can punch you under the chin and watch blood fly out the back of your head. Oh, and he can block and unneccessarily long katana using just his forearm. Yeah... GZA (why doesn't he have a verse on this song?) would be "Centipede style", meaning he could repeatedly pound your face. Next up would be Ghostface who is "Snake style", with the ability TO FUCKING PUSH YOUR SPINAL CORD OUT OF YOUR BODY BY POKING YOU WITH TWO FINGERS. WHAT?! Method Man is "Lizard style", meaning he can climb up walls or something. They don't give him much to do here.

After killing tons of warriors, The Hunter shows back up. As he begins being engulfed in a blue light that pulls up his solder's dead bodies, a black cloaked figure begins to move behind him. It sneaks up on him and snaps his neck, revealing that the black cloaked figure is actually one Ol' Dirty Bastard. The video ends by closing up on the Wu-Tang symbol on a door.

To be honest, this video is amazing. You definitely need to watch this above, and then get it for you iPod.