Oladapo Fagbenle (born February 12, 1986), professionally known as Daps, is a British artist, video director, and former NCAA athlete. He is best known for directing music videos for recording artists such as Migos, Stormzy, Iggy Azalea, Kendrick Lamar, Wizkid, 2 Chainz and Davido.
Video Daps (director)
Career
Born to Nigerian parents, Daps begun his career within the media industry as a video producer in New York and London. Before this, he played collegiate basketball at Campbell University and Bellarmine University. Daps is also the brother of British actor, O. T. Fagbenle, and video producer, Luti Fagbenle. Daps currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Basketball
Daps began playing basketball in London, England, where he played for the Westminster Warriors. He then continued his athletic career in the United States where he attended The Master's School in Connecticut for one year. Daps received a scholarship to play basketball at Campbell University in North Carolina where he competed for two years and received his bachelor's degree. Daps then transferred to Bellarmine University where he played basketball for two more years and received his master's degree. Daps is also the older brother of WNBA Minnesota Lynx Centre Temi Fagbenle.
Entertainment career
Daps began his video production career in the fall of 2010 and began directing music videos in 2013. In 2016 he directed the video for "Bad and Boujee" which went on to become a US number 1 and garnered hundreds of millions of views. During his award speech at the 2017 Golden Globe Award's, Donald Glover stated that Bad & Boujee was "Like that's the best song ever". Later that week, the video for the Daps-directed, critically acclaimed "T-Shirt" was released. Numerous publications have stated it is the best video of 2017.
Since then, Daps has gone on to direct videos for Stormzy, Wizkid,Young Thug and Davido
Maps Daps (director)
Music videography
References
External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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