Shareefa feat. Ludacris - Need A Boss

What this video is

Released July 2006 on Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam Recordings, 'Need A Boss' was Shareefa's debut single from her album Point of No Return. The track was produced by Rodney 'Darkchild' Jerkins and samples The Stylistics' 'Let's Put It All Together,' anchoring the track in soul-music legacy while projecting a contemporary assertive female R&B voice. The single reached #62 on the Billboard Hot 100, #10 on Hot…

Why it matters

A textbook specimen of mid-2000s major-label R&B/hip-hop crossover video production: female empowerment lyrical framing, Southern hip-hop feature verse, Darkchild production sonics, and DTP label branding all converging in a single music video. Matsoukas' directorial fingerprint — rapid…

The director

Melina Matsoukas (born January 14, 1981) is an American director of music videos, film, commercials, and television. She earned an MFA in cinematography from the AFI Conservatory; her graduate thesis focused on music videos. She is a two-time Grammy Award…