Ryan Lewis Number Eleven: A Short Film Review
Ryan Lewis has been producing music professionally for nearly 10 years. Best known as the production half of the award-winning hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, they have released an EP and two full-length albums together. Unapologetically real with their socially conscious lyrics and catchy beats, they hit it big with singles like “Thrift Shop,” “Can’t Hold Us” and “Same Love.” Read on to find out more about Ryan Lewis and his music career, and check back soon for part two of this list, coming soon.
Number Fifteen: Ryan Lewis Released a Solo EP
Ryan Lewis released his only solo EP, Instrumentals, in 2008, just before officially beginning his work with Macklemore. The EP contains four mixes he wrote and produced himself. With the exception of a few of his …show more content…
He is credited as the director on all of the duo’s music videos. In 2014, he also helped direct and produce the video for Fences’ “Arrows.”
Number Eleven: He Also Directed a Short Film
As part of his thesis at the University of Washington, he created a short film called “Fake Empire.” Touching on themes of consumerism and human nature, the film stars Macklemore walking around South Africa on a normal day, attached to his computer and iPhone. The film sample’s from The National’s song “Fake Empire,” where Lewis also got the name for the almost stop-motion-like short.
Number Ten: He is the Lesser Known of the Duo
While both of their names are on the music, Macklemore is more upfront since he is the one rapping. Lewis is aware of this and had a little fun with this fact on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2014. In a skit for the show, he went out on the street in New York City to see if people knew what he did or what he even looked like. Only after pointing him out in a photo did any of them realize that they were talking to Lewis himself. He even had to tell a couple of them outright that he was Ryan
Number Fifteen: Ryan Lewis Released a Solo EP
Ryan Lewis released his only solo EP, Instrumentals, in 2008, just before officially beginning his work with Macklemore. The EP contains four mixes he wrote and produced himself. With the exception of a few of his …show more content…
He is credited as the director on all of the duo’s music videos. In 2014, he also helped direct and produce the video for Fences’ “Arrows.”
Number Eleven: He Also Directed a Short Film
As part of his thesis at the University of Washington, he created a short film called “Fake Empire.” Touching on themes of consumerism and human nature, the film stars Macklemore walking around South Africa on a normal day, attached to his computer and iPhone. The film sample’s from The National’s song “Fake Empire,” where Lewis also got the name for the almost stop-motion-like short.
Number Ten: He is the Lesser Known of the Duo
While both of their names are on the music, Macklemore is more upfront since he is the one rapping. Lewis is aware of this and had a little fun with this fact on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2014. In a skit for the show, he went out on the street in New York City to see if people knew what he did or what he even looked like. Only after pointing him out in a photo did any of them realize that they were talking to Lewis himself. He even had to tell a couple of them outright that he was Ryan