Santana - Put Your Lights On ft. Everlast

What this video is

Released in late 1999 as the second single from Santana's landmark comeback album Supernatural, 'Put Your Lights On' represented a unique cultural intersection: the resurgence of Carlos Santana's Latin rock legacy fused with Everlast's post-House of Pain hip-hop identity and Islamic spiritual imagery. The song — written by Everlast while recovering from a near-fatal heart attack in 1998 — carried authentic…

Why it matters

The video is a canonical artifact of the late-1990s rap-rock crossover moment, merging Santana's Latin rock guitar tradition with Everlast's hip-hop vocal cadence and street-level lyrical realism. It also represents a rare mainstream-charting vehicle for explicitly Islamic spiritual content in…

The director

Dave Diomedi is an American television and music video director active from the mid-1990s onward. He is credited on IMDb and TCM with directing for VH1 Storytellers (1996), multiple VH1 live specials and concert productions (1999–2004), and later served as a…