Around this time last year we (by which I mean Team Popcorn Comedy) made a short, no-budget rap video starring Doc Brown, Hood Sportz.

A lot of people seemed to like it, and we really enjoyed working with Doc, so it was absolutely brilliant when BBC Comedy asked us to make four more, only this time with a bit of budget.

You can watch them here.

This afternoon I came across some of the really early concept work I did in Jan/Feb for a couple of the videos and it was really interesting seeing how those ideas had translated into the final versions six months later.

Well, I found it interesting anyway.

For Handz Up, Kanye West and Busta Rhymes were big influences:

And for Jimmy Wiggz (superbly directed by Barry Pilling) there was obviously more than a touch of the Puff Daddy…