40 days of art

15

Aye Girl

I met Jesse on Tinder. Our first date was at a Thai restaurant and we absolutely had stronger homie vibes than date vibes. Our second date we went back to his house, went to his bedroom, and made music for 3 hours. We became really good friends and collaborators after that. I had some lyrics for a song called Aye Girl that I did not have a beat for yet (a little ditty about being cat called and hating it) and sang it to Jesse. He whipped up a beat for it that day! He is so talented!

I wanted to make a video for the song, which is also my first stab at music video direction (I co-directed it with Sal and shot by Max Skaff) The concept was a Freaky Friday situation where the main character(Jesse) woke up and was being objectified. I had some pals show up to my apartment in Brooklyn and we walked around the hood shooting things guerilla style. I found a really cheap studio in Bushwick that was $30 an hour for us to shoot the club scene in, and it was so small, making it hard to figure out how to get the camera and the cast in there — but we made it work!

This video was one of the first mainstream press I ever got. I am not sure how this happened, but somehow Time magazine picked it up and wrote a cute little article on it.