The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By (1993)

The music video for "Passin' Me By" by The Pharcyde was released on March 29, 1993, in the United States. Directed by the MTV award-winning director Sanji Senaka, the video is renowned for its distinct visual style and creative concept that complements the song's themes of unrequited love and nostalgia.
The video is shot entirely in black and white, creating a stark, timeless aesthetic. Its most defining feature is a surreal visual trick: throughout the entire video, the four rappers (Bootie Brown, Fatlip, Imani, and Slimkid3) appear upside-down relative to the rest of the world. They are often seen rapping while hanging from the ceiling of a car or positioned behind a fence, inverted against the normal orientation of their surroundings. This disorienting perspective visually represents the feeling of being out of place or "upside-down" due to heartbreak and infatuation.
"Passin' Me By" is widely considered a classic of the alternative hip-hop genre. The album it hails from, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde, has been cited by Kanye West as his favorite album of all time. The song itself ranked number 41 on Pitchfork Media's Top 200 Tracks of the 90s and number 8 on HipHopGoldenAge's Top 100 Hip Hop Songs of the 1990s. Fans and critics alike praise the video for its lack of typical hip-hop tropes of the era (such as guns or excessive branding), focusing instead on a pure, artistic expression of the music.