20 Music Videos Directed By Hollywood's Finest Filmmakers

7. F. Gary Gray: OutKast - "Ms. Jackson"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYxAiK6VnXw Finding his roots and identity through music, auteur F. Gary Gray has always managed the balancing act between both audio and visual artforms. Shooting videos for the likes of TLC, R. Kelly and Dr. Dre, urban influences have transferred to the silver screen with brilliant efficiency. However across a prosperous career in videography, Gray has never bettered his beautiful and essential compliment to alternative hip-hop outfit OutKast's "Ms. Jackson". Gray's cinematic career is ever-expansive; from The Italian Job (2003) reboot to 2015's exceptional N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton (one of the year's very best American films), he has constructed a secure path for his style and voice, and shows no signs of stopping yet. This video is storytelling in its purest, most sincere form, the video aids the lyrical narrative perfectly, whilst managing to birth individual purpose too. Plus it has a kitten walking across a piano...