‘WASSUP’, LIL UZI VERT

May 2020

A collaboration with Atlantic Record’s multi-platinum selling artist Lil Uzi Vert to produce the world’s first hip-hop music video that incorporates deep fake technologies.

Directed by Grammy nominated Yasha Gruben and produced by Bill Posters, the music video for ‘Wassup’ feat. Future is from Lil Uzi Vert’s second US number-one album Eternal Atake. The concept parodies digital life under lockdown and features Lil Uzi Vert as Dadaesque reincarnations of influential celebrity icons from the fields of art, music and politics.

Director: Yasha Gruben

Producers: Bill Posters, DappyBoi

Deepfake: StudioNeural (Bill Posters, Karim Iskakov, Ali Aliev, Jeff White)

Editor: Elan Alexemberg / 17 Newbury

Special thanks to the authors of “First Order Motion Model for Image Animation”