I really wanted to just make an ode to all these scary movies that I watched growing
up, like ‘American Psycho,’ and ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre.’
Skies is with the weird, dark shit, like the plastic bag part, and the dead girl part?
I want people to be like, "Yo, what is that?"
Lil Skies, bruh he's...especially through the years I've known him for about two years
and now he's like my brother.
We do mad shit together.
Anything music-wise, I'm always there with him.
He's very genuine, he's very humble, he's not gonna be like, "Yo, I'm too Hollywood"
"to like, be standing in the cold."
Nah.
I watched the new ‘Black Mirror.’
The new season, it was the black and white episode where they're getting chased by the
mechanical dog.
It was like an apocalyptic world, everything in black and white would look super crisp.
So I was like, "I wanna do a video in black and white."
I was just trying to make it weird.
And Skies is like, “Yeah, let’s run with it.”
We filmed this in my hometown.
In Martinsburg, West Virginia.
We shot this in a hotel where they only use the ballroom, and the entire upstairs hotel
is just completely gutted.
So there's like six stories of just empty rooms, empty weird shit.
All the windows and shit were smashed out, so it was freezing in the building.
The guy who I buy vintage clothes from, it's called West Virginia Vintage, his name is
Jeremy.
He sent me a picture of him making this.
It's a metal baseball bat that he bought from a thrift store, and it said, "Made for Killing"
on it.
When he sent it to me I was like, "Yo, that is the craziest shit I have ever seen."
He said he spent a few hours on it, and actually drilled through this metal baseball bat, so
he could put these screws through it, and then attached these fucking buzzsaw blades
onto it.
The costumes and prop design was all me.
I was just like, "Yo, I want like kind of a ‘Mad Max’ type of feel."
The hoodie is Section 8, so it's like a spiked hoodie.
Glasses were from Amazon, mask was from Amazon.
A lot of the shit was from Amazon, honestly.
My friend has a friend who owns a junkyard, so we paid like a few hundred dollars for
him to tow the car to my friend's place...and this is actually, we shot this in my friend's
backyard.
I wanted to make sure that every single window smash was on film, and we got a good shot.
This looks a lot more dangerous than it actually is.
He is not touching the ground, just his coat.
He's actually holdin' onto his manager's hand, right here.
Like, his manager's driving like this, holdin' onto him.
And they're probably going like, five miles an hour.
But it seems like they're going a lot faster, 'cause it's like, a short clip.
The inspiration for this was actually ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre.’
I've seen it, like a long time ago, then I saw this picture of this weird dinner scene.
So I was like, "I wanna try to recreate that, and make it a super weird scene."
So this is Johnny Ransom, from the CUFBOYS.
This right here is Landon Cube.
That is chicken...liver.
This is just like a random cow skull.
I was like, “Yo we need some weird food.”
I really wanted to get a full pig's head, or pig brain.
Just weird, gross shit.
But he came back with chicken liver and chicken gizzards so I was like, "Alright fuck it."
"We'll make it work."
For this scene, Landon Cube, he was not happy of his role in it.
He was not really enjoying smashing his face in chicken liver and gizzards.
And we probably had to film it like, three or four times.
'Cause at first, his head didn't really hit as hard, so we're like
"Alright bro, you gotta do it again."
And he was like, "Bro are you serious?"
So I suggested this to Skies.
I was like, "There's gonna be a plastic bag scene."
"I really wanna do a closeup of someone suffocating, and rapping through a plastic bag."
He can definitely breathe, 'cause he kinda has a little bit of space right there.
Where he's kinda like, holding it.
At first we filmed it, and the bag wasn't really as tight on his face as I wanted it.
You could tell that he could breathe through it.
So I was like, "Bro you gotta go all out, and actually kinda suffocate yourself."
And he was like, "Alright."
At first he was like, "I don’t know."
But eventually he was like, "Alright fuck it."
Like, that scene?
So clean.
So this was actually inspired by 'American Psycho.'
So I was like, "Yo that is one of my favorite scenes, in any movie."
"I love that scene."
So I was like, "I really wanna recreate that."
I actually dressed like this for Halloween one year.
So I was like, "Yo I really wanna do a video where it involves it."
So all that is like, I basically just gave him my dress clothes.
But he ruined 'em.
Like all that shit, ruined.
All that, ruined.
Basically I had to throw the shirt away.
So this, easily is my favorite scene of the entire video.
This scene is where people are really like, "Yo what the fuck?"
Brad basically just masked his eyes out on this, and then added some kind of like glow shit.
So when we shot it, I was like, "Okay, it might not look good, but whatever."
But when he sent it to me, I was like, "Yo, that is exactly"
"like that is the perfect shit for this video."
One thing to just make people like, "Yo, what is this video?"
Starting out I had the run and gun style.
It's like, alright.
Go to a location, shoot the video, and whatever happens, happens.
I'm trying to really make more cinematic music videos.
I think it's just everything put together.
Seeing all these different creatives make something, and then people really fuck with it.
So I was like, "I wanna do that."
I wanna make videos that people actually enjoy watching.
As long as you have a good idea, and as long as you have a good team that is down to try
something different, I feel like you can make something great.
Honestly, I feel like no matter what instrument Skies has, he'll always act like he's playing
the guitar.
So it's like he had the bat with the buzzsaw, so it's like the perfect thing.
Good form.
Good note.
I think he's hitting a G or something.