Naughty By Nature - Feel Me Flow [HQ]

What this video is

Released May 1995 as the lead single from Poverty's Paradise — Naughty By Nature's fourth album and eventual Grammy winner for Best Rap Album — 'Feel Me Flow' arrived at a pivotal crossover moment for East Coast hip-hop. The single peaked at #3 on Hot Rap Singles and #17 on the Billboard Hot 100, demonstrating the genre's sustained mainstream penetration. The video's summer-heat visual grammar, crowd energy, and…

Why it matters

A textbook example of mid-90s crossover hip-hop video production: performance-forward, location-rich, and lifestyle-aspirational. The video's seasonal intercutting and outdoor staging presage the late-90s shift toward cinematic hip-hop clip-making. Its chart success and Grammy-winning parent album…

The director

David Nelson is a music video director active in the US hip-hop and rap video space during the mid-to-late 1990s and early 2000s. Verified credits include Naughty By Nature's 'Feel Me Flow' (1995), Cool Breeze's 'Watch For The Hook' (1999), De La Soul's 'All…