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Harold "Hype" Williams (born in Queens, New York) is an African American painter and music video and film director. He is notable for creating a number of groundbreaking and successful music videos for hip hop artists such as Craig Mack ("Flava In Ya Ear"), LL Cool J ("Doin' It"), Nas ("If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)", "Street Dreams"), Missy Elliott ("The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)", "She's a Bitch"), Busta Rhymes ("Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See"), TLC ("No Scrubs"), and Jay-Z ("Big Pimpin'").
Williams began his career as an art director; one of his first jobs was designing the sets and costumes for the first TLC video, "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg", in 1991. He directed his first major music video, "Can It All Be So Simple" by The Wu-Tang Clan, in 1993. After the success of that and following video projects, Williams became the highest-paid and most requested urban music video director by the end of the 1990s.
In 1998, Williams directed his first theatrical feature film, Belly; the film was mildly recieved by both critics and audiences. Recent years have found him gravitating away from music video directing and planning to take on more feature projects, one of which is a projected remake of the 1960s anime Speed Racer.
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