EPMD - Head Banger (Dirty Music Video)

What this video is

Released October 1992, 'Head Banger' arrived at the peak of hip-hop's Golden Age and served as EPMD's final single before the group's acrimonious split. The track is a canonical posse cut featuring the Hit Squad — K-Solo and Redman — and introduced Redman to a wider audience. Produced by Erick Sermon with samples from Parliament, Joe Tex, and Brand Nubian, the song embodies the sample-dense, funk-rooted production…

Why it matters

A landmark East Coast hip-hop posse cut, 'Head Banger' peaked at #11 on the Hot Rap Singles chart and is regarded as one of the definitive ensemble performances of the Golden Age. It marks both the zenith of EPMD's Hit Squad era and the commercial emergence of Redman as a solo force, making it a…

The director

Marcus Raboy (born November 30, 1965) is an American film and music video director who grew up in New York City and attended New York University. Since the early 1990s he built an extensive music video catalog working with hip-hop and R&B artists including…