N.E.R.D. work with Kanye, Lupe & Pusha T

N.E.R.D.’s Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo have worked with some of the biggest names in music industry — and they brought in some big guns for the remix and Hype Williams-directed video of ‘Everyone Nose’: Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco and Pusha T of Clipse.

Watch the making of ‘Everyone Nose’ Remix video

“I think Pusha put the meltdown on it,” Pharrell set on the set of the video when asked which rapper has the best verse on the track. “But, I mean, I like everybody’s verse because I think that Lupe killed it, Kanye killed it. Mine was more about style than how dope the rhyme was. It was really my melody that I liked more than anything — that’s why my vocal approach was a little different from what you would hear me do. I wanted to just do something different that would look different on me.”

The concept [is based on] old ’80s video-game graphics playing behind us while we’re rhyming. We just want to have fun with the project. In a day and age where the record industry is what it is, I’m lucky enough to be on a label that understands and they’ll just let us have fun.

We just came off the road from being in Europe for a long time, just doing festivals across the continent of Europe,” Williams said. “It’s just been incredible performing for 50-80,000 people. And when ‘Everyone Nose’ comes on, everyone just has their hands in the air. It’s just incredible. So this is kind of like a token of our appreciation for everybody that’s been supporting the project thus far.”

N.E.R.D. and two of the remix’s three guests (Kanye and Lupe) recently shared the stage during the first leg of Kanye’s recent Glow in the Dark Tour.

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