Shia LaBeouf On Directing Kid Cudi Video

During a press run for his new movie Transformers 3, Shia explains how the clip came together below:
“[Cage] is one of my good friends. Cage, Chris Palko, and I had been trying to make a movie about him for a while,” LaBeouf explained. “Cudi hit [Cage] up and did a song with him. Cage sent me the song, called ‘Maniac,’ so initially, we started prepping this video, which is really like a short horror movie that I made that comes out on Halloween,” he said. “In the interim, while we were finishing up the effects on it, [Cudi] told me he was going to Amsterdam for the Cannabis Cup…And to do that with Cudi when he’s a judge, and I get to roll with him with my 8mm camera [like] an ‘Easy Rider’ documentarian, I felt like Cameron Crowe or something.”

On The Set: Pusha T x Tyler, The Creator “Trouble On My Mind”

The LA Weekly was on the set of Pusha’s upcoming video with Odd Future’s Tyler, The Creator (foot cast included). The Neptunes-produced track will be featured on Pusha’s upcoming EP which will drop in August. Director Jason Goldwatch explains the concept below. More footage after the jump.


For the “Trouble on My Mind” video, the art is just as much in the destruction as in the creation. The dingy hotel room set will be demolished by a bunch of Odd Future’s crew, including members Taco and Jasper Dolphin, within a couple of hours. As they begin to trash the room for the camera, Goldwatch repeatedly tells them to calm down, almost like a dad telling his kids to use their indoor voices. Teenage-boy testosterone sucks the air out of the space almost as much as the fumes of fireworks and spray paint do. Pusha T has disappeared. Tyler’s tricks, like purposefully stumbling off his crutches and into the bedside dresser, are funny to newcomers, but it’s getting late.










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LMFAO On Working With Kanye West

LMFAO sat downwith Ryan Seacrest. They say that while in a nightclub in Cannes, Kanye approached them to talk about their music.

“I was playing “Champagne Showers” and he said that ‘That was one of his biggest moments and best times at a club EVER,’” said Redfoo. “He was like ‘I need to understand what is going on with that.”