Soul For Real - Candy Rain (Remix) ft. Heavy D

What this video is

Released in 1995, this remix video sits at a pivotal transition in Black popular music: the tail end of New Jack Swing and the consolidation of a smoother, jazz-sampling East Coast R&B sound driven by production teams like the Trackmasters. Soul For Real were teenage siblings signed to Uptown Records — the Andre Harrell label that defined a generation of polished urban R&B — and 'Candy Rain' was their breakthrough.…

Why it matters

A canonical example of mid-90s crossover R&B video production, this clip demonstrates the era's dominant formula: performance-centric staging, minimal narrative, coordinated group choreography, and a clean studio environment designed for high-rotation TV airplay on MTV and BET. The Heavy D remix…

The director

Terry Heller is a Los Angeles-based music video director who broke into the industry as an artist's rep at Eazy-E's Ruthless Records and later founded production company Clever Films (1995–1998). He directed notable 1990s hip-hop and R&B videos for artists…