User:Oyork/Mazi Oyo

Early life
Mazi "Mazio" Oyo (born September 15, 1979) is an independent music video, commercial, and film director of African descent. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and is known for his guerrilla styled techniques and, non-traditional editing. He is also the founder of the New York based video channel iDOit4TV.com, founded in 2010.

Oyo was born in Crown Heights, New York, the son of Obaba Oyo, a prominent religious author, and Ashabi Oyo, a seamstress. As a child, his father nicknamed him "Azeez" which means "the mighty one" in arabic. Before Oyo could walk his parents divorced and he grew up with his mother on welfare until the age of 10 before returning to live with his wealthy father. After running away from home at the age of 14 he went to live with his aunt in Queens and attended Andrew Jackson High School (St. Albans New York). Oyo later dropped out and received his GED. After receiving his General Equivalence Diploma Oyo enrolled into college and majored in Business Management at SAGE. He eventually grew bored with school again and dropped out to learn pursue his growing interest in the music business. After working as an independent promoter at Motown Records for a couple years Oyo who had always been a talented writer Oyo decided, at his fathers suggestion to try his hand at publishing.

Video Production career
After a couple years in publishing with his father Oyo found himself taking a class in video production at Brooklyn's local TV station BCAT. Oyo quickly fell in love with video production and soon after purchased a video camera. After a meeting with Brooklyn rapper Buckshot of Blackmoon Oyo was encouraged to pursue a career in video production. After several years of conducting interviews with local rappers Oyo was offered a job at 99.5FM WBAI in New York. Oyo eventually used the position to build relationships which eventually led to him starting his company Mazi O. Video.

iDOit4TV.com
Launched in 2010 by Oyo as a subsidiary of his video production company Mazi O. Video, iDOit4TV.com was created as a way to promote his clients videos with a mission to give everyone a platform to be seen online. Having been an official partner in another top hip-hop video site Oyo knew first hand what to do to launch a successful online video channel. Within a short time period the website was quickly building its name and gaining viewers.

Press
In 2010 alone Mazi Oyo has had his videos watched by over 28 million viewers and featured on just about every major hip hop website, Missinfo.TV Worldstarhiphop, xxlmag.com, allhiphop.com, vladtv.com, thisis50.com, nahright.com, mediatakeout.com, etc.

Trademarks

 * Vibrant and two-toned Color correction
 * Creative Unusual transitions
 * Ironic story endings
 * Is known for shooting anywhere in one take

Selected filmography

 * "D.O.A." – Dylan (2010) (music video)
 * "Promise" - Dylan (2010) (music video)
 * "We Buy The Whole Thang" - French Montana & OJ Da Juiceman
 * "Epilepsy" – Drag-On (2010) (music video)
 * "Don't Forget The Homies" – Dame Grease (2010) (music video)
 * "I don't Know Why" – Lil Cease (2010) (music video)
 * "She Loves It" – Masspike Miles & French Montana (2010) (music video)
 * "Our Dreams" – Wu-Tang (2010) (Behind The scenes Interview)
 * "BMF" – Rick Ross (2010) (Behind The scenes music video)
 * Interview - Ron Browz (2010)
 * Interview - The LOX (2010)
 * Interview - Bun B (2010)
 * "Ha-Ha" - Fat Joe (2010) (Behind The scenes music video)
 * "End Of Time" – Lumidee & Styles P (2010) (Behind The scenes music video)
 * "Everyone is Haitian" – Roc4Life (2010) (Behind The scenes PSA)