Coodie & Chike

In 1994 Coodie co-founded Channel Zero with his good friend Danny Sorge. The two of them started a show that gained a substantial amount of attention in the inner city streets of Chicago. After graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, Chike began a career in motion graphics. His work brought him to New York, where he created motion design and graphics for MTV. It was there that Chike first met Coodie,. In 2002 Coodie met Kanye West and began shooting footage of him in efforts to make a documentary about the recently signed to Rockefeller rapper. This then led to Coodie and Chike meeting through the MTV show that at the time Chike was producing called You Heard It First. Kanye and a friend paired the two up in efforts to take the footage that Coodie had gathered up and make a music video out of it. Once the "dynamic duo" paired up, they produced and directed Kanye's first music video entitled "Through The Wire".

Creative Control is a production company founded in 2007. It became known for music videos such as "Jesus Walks", "Window Seat", and "Old School Love", and has now moved further into traditional film pieces such as: Good Morning, a short film for American Family Insurance that depicted the day to day grind of a nine to five for someone who gave up on their dream; and Benji, a film about the rise and downfall of a high school All-American basketball player who was tragically killed in 1984 one day before the start of the basketball season of his senior year.

Coodie and Chike experience working with a multitude of artist music videos, artist such as: Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Christina Aguilera, Rick Ross, The Black Keys, Joey Badass, Wale, Kanye West, Gil Scott, Common, and Currensy. The list goes on but some collaborations gained more attention than others.

In 2010 Coodie and Chike ran into a small storm of controversy when they released the video entitled "Window Seat", a song written and performed by R&B singer Erykah Badu. The video opens with a November 22, 1963, radio broadcast describing John F. Kennedy's motorcade turning onto Elm Street, Dallas, seconds before fatal shots were fired. Badu is behind the wheel of a 1965 Lincoln Continental, parked along Kennedy's route. A single camera focuses on her as she walks toward Elm Street, when she begins to strip off her clothes. As she reached the spot where Kennedy was first struck by a bullet, the crackle of a gunshot is heard and Badu's head snaps back and she falls to the ground as if dead. The video was shot in one take and took 10 minutes to shoot, but gained a lot of attention on social media and gave Coodie and Chike even more popularity behind their name.

In 2012 Coodie and Chike released their critically acclaimed ESPN 30 for 30 film Benji. The film goes into the life of Benjamin Wilson, who in 1983 was ranked the number one high school basketball player in the nation. The story showed the effect that Wilson's death had on the city of Chicago, and also showed the perspective of the shooter Billy Moore. The story really set things in motion for the "Dynamic Duo" as they began speaking at events sponsored by Nike and the Jordan Brand.

In 2013 Coodie and Chike released a short entitled Good Morning, a film that debuted at the 2013 American Black Film Festival. American Family Insurance sponsored a writer's competition that required the writer to submit a concept to directors. From there directors chose which concept they wanted to create a video on and submit. Good Morning earned first place for the at the American Black Film Festival.

In 2017 Coodie and Chike created Accel Origins Series, four short videos featuring founders sharing their origin story. Each video dives into the purpose of their entrepreneurial journey. The founders include Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, co-founders of Lynda.com; Jayshree Ullal, President and CEO of Arista; Ryan Smith, co-founder and CEO of Qualtrics; and Amr Awadallah, co-founder and CTO of Cloudera.