♪ Stay off the weed ♪♪
Entergalactic is something that
we worked on for three years and
we put a lot of love
and a lot of, a lot of heart and hard work into it.
We feel like it's something really,
really special and it's from our heart.
It's a passion project that is made of love.
I wanted it to be a new type of animation.
This is something
that visually hasn't been seen before.
This love story
we were telling, I wanted to make sure it
looked like a moving painting.
You kind of forget that you're
watching an animated show.
That was the first thing I said
after we finished watching it.
Like I fully was so immersed in the world.
Uh, what's up?
Uh, I'm sorry?
It was imperative
to have the details that I wanted.
If you know Cudi, he is
you know, he's a visionary, you know what I'm saying?
But, like, he's also very, very, very specific.
Working on the character design,
making sure that the characters were fresh.
I was like, I don't want this to be like
a regular animated show where the characters
are wearing the same thing every episode.
You know, Virgil has been a
huge inspiration for me, and in order for us
to have the freshness like
I needed to approach this, like this was live action.
And who fresher than Virgil?
There's a special homage to Cudi's brother,
and just a brother to the world in Virgil
that I feel like
it makes it a really even
that much more of a special thing.
Oh, God, I hate this feeling.
You like him.
It's just butterflies.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
It is not just butterflies.
Dude, she's my neighbor.
Just moved into the building.
I'm not trying to f*** the vibes up.
The songs really fit with the color palette.
Everything lines up in such a beautiful, organic way.
The music's so good.
From the minute that he played those songs,
it was just like an activation.
Like, oh, there is something special here.
One of the things that makes this project from
the beginning special was there has never been an album
associated with a project, I think, like this.
I think this makes it, you know, one of a kind.
I love listening to an entire album
beginning to end
and to see how that was developed
into Entergalactic, I was like,
that is the coolest, coolest thing ever.
The music is a character in this.
The clothes are a character.
New York is a character in this piece.
This group of friends feels very New York.
We're not trying to hide anything.
He talked about his days in New York.
He was like, I want to go back
and remember those times.
Look, man,
I just don't want you to end up in a friend zone.
Watering her house plants and feeding her cat,
while she on a month long meditation
retreat with some n**** named Valar.
Oh, man.
Bro, who hurt you?
Something we found here was the amazing performances
from our cast.
When you get this
level of people together, magic happens.
You know, I came here in a Maybach.
Yeah, and you're leaving on a Mongoose.
Unless you don't want to ruin
that little cocktail dress of yours.
What is that, anyway?
It's Valentino.
And don't try and play me.
So much of the party
that came to the table are Scott's
true friends in real life
and wanted to participate in this with him.
♪ Finally get my head right ♪
♪ Listen to me ♪
♪ It's like I got heaven in my sights now, ♪
♪ who do you see? ♪♪
Everyone was playing a character in a great way.
And then we have these surreal, beautiful moments
set to your music where we're literally in space.
♪ Been searching for someone ♪
It's just great to finally be at this place to
to showcase it to the world.
And we are all so very proud of it.
I feel like it is something that people
will be talking about for a long time.
Entergalactic is about finding a new way
to release music out into the world.
Finding a way to release an album
that has a narrative concept with it
where they're both married together.
This idea with Scott
started so much with him feeling like there was
a disconnect between music and visuals.
How do we create a new experience?
Eventizing music drops, and we just all felt
that leaning on character was the way to do that.
I just felt like there's a void when it comes to like
black love stories in the industry.
Young, modern
dating that in the world today, like what it's like.
When I was coming up with the concept
of the show, I was like, yo,
I want a song that embodies the tone.
Enter Galactic from Man on the Moon is a love song.
It's simply
just about me meeting this girl that I like,
and we were doing shrooms for the first time.
That was when we talked about
what the whole concept of this was.
It's that first time
you meet someone, what it's like when you fall in love.
We just don't get a chance, especially, like I said,
as black men to sort of like express ourselves.
You know what I'm saying? Everything is like
put into a box.
Love is the answer.
And that's what Entergalactic is about.
This connection that these two people have it’s magical.
It's entergalactic.
It is about black love, but you'll see it's
literally about new age, millennial love.
There's so many things that I love about this show.
The colors and the soundscapes are all so new.
It blew all of our minds.
One thing that I hope that they get from
this is that this is like a part of me.