Music Video
Though the group has yet to release a music video for the "Us Placers", an non-commissioned video was produced by music video director Va$htie. The video features ten-year-old child impersonators standing respectively in for Lupe, Kanye, Pharrell, and Thom Yorke. They illustrate the imagery described in the song's lyrics and hold up cue cards in reference to Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". Despite its "zero-budget," unofficial nature, the music video was very well received, garnering well over two million views on YouTube alone. It has since gone on to have caught the attention of Kanye West, who expressed his affinity by posting the video up on his official blog.
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