Run The Jewels “Ooh LA LA” feat. Greg Nice & DJ Premier | Watch Now
Official music video for “Ooh LA LA” from RTJ4, featuring Greg Nice & DJ Premier.
We shot this video only a few weeks before the pandemic hit with no clue as to what the future held. the fact that we got the chance to do it is damn near miraculous in hindsight. in conceptualizing the video with our friends Brian and Vanessa Beletic we imagined the world on the day that the age old struggle of class was finally over. a day that humanity, empathy and community were victorious over the forces that would separate us based on arbitrary systems created by man.
this video is a fantasy of waking up on a day that there is no monetary system, no dividing line, no false construct to tell our fellow man that they are less or more than anyone else. not that people are without but that the whole meaning of money has vanished. that we have somehow solved our self created caste system and can now start fresh with love, hope and celebration. its a dream of humanity’s V-DAY… and the party we know would pop off.
love, RTJ
ps: we’d like to thank everyone who busted their ass to make this happen from directors Brian and Vanessa Beletic to line producer Cat Restrepo to editor Biff Butler to the wonderful folks at The Mill who handled post production as well as everyone involved in shooting, prepping and executing this video. you guys gave us so much of your energy and talent during this crazy fucking time to make it all come together and we are truly grateful.
Directed by: Brian & Vanessa Beletic
Co-Creative: EL-P @thereallyrealelp
Production Company: Smuggler
Executive Producer: Sue Yeon Ahn
VFX Consultant: Phil Crowe at Parliament
Producer: Cat Restrepo
Director of Photography: Max Goldman
1st AD: Anthony Dimino
Production Designer: Justin Allen
Steadicam: Chris Cunningham
Gaffer: Ryan French
Key Grip: Tony Cady
Costume Designer: Natasha Newman-Thomas
Artist Styling: Marty Mc’Fresh
Choreographer: Samo Soto
Casting: Dustin Blackburn
VTR: Rich Breitengross
DIT: Jesse Tyler
Hair: DaRico Jackson + Tiger
Make Up: Vanessa Kinder
Helicopter Pilot: Jesse Khalil Brown
Hot Air Balloon Pilot: Martine Coblentz
Key PA: Phil Swiadon
Off-line edit: Work Editorial
Editor: Biff Butler
Assistant Editor: Gladys Bernadac
Producer: Rebecca Baker
Executive Producer: Marlo Baird
VFX Creative: The Mill
VFX Supervisor: Dan Warom
VFX Supervisor: Steve Cokonis
Executive Producer: Anastasia Von Rahl
Senior Producer: Sumer Zuberi
Production Coordinator: Michael Novo
Line Producer: Goutham H
Shoot Supervisor: Dan Warom & Steve Cokonis
2D Artist: Alex Candlish, Tim Rudgard, Phillip Ineno, Jeff Langlois, Romany Yavorsky Lenz Kol, Yukiko Ishiwata, Katerina Arroyo, Gavin Marler, Lisa Kim, Rakesh Venugopalan, Mangesh Borkar, Mayank Shekhar Tiwari, Rahul Roy, Rajeshkumar K, Srilakshmi Narasimha Kondepi 3D Artist: Freddy Parra, Lalida Karnjanasirirat, Stefan Kang, Graeme Turnbull, Michael Lori, Elizabeth Hammer, Danny Garcia, Umesh Namdev, Anirudh Sharma, Kiran Prabhu Matte Painting: Shannan Burkley, Vinod Shantaram More, Sandipan Majumder, Swarup Panigrahi Animation: Gustavo Gonzalez, Katie Yancey Design: Tim Devlin, Anastasia Skerebneva Art Department: Kevin Diaz
Colour: The Mill
Colourist: Matthew Osborne
Colour Producer: Blake Rice
Colour Assist: Logan Highlen, Gemma Parr
Emerging Tech Mocap Operator: Isiah Den Beste
Opening Titles: Nick Gazin
Sound: Lime Studios
Mixer: Matt Miller
Executive Producer: Susie Boyajan