While I was in Lisbon, Portugal taking pictures, I meet a local rapper named Jazzy Jay during a break I took at a local sandwich shop. We got to talking and he told me he was shooting a video the next day for his track “Street Brothers” and he needed somebody to chase him around the city on a skateboard wearing an alien mask for the video. I was like “cool, let’s do this” and I got his number and made an appointment for the next morning.

We hooked up the next day near the sandwich shop that we met and then took a bus to a house a bit out of town and linked up with two other dudes that were gonna be filming. It was a bright sunny day and we started filming at a train station near the dudes house which was a bit out of town. The video started out with me creeping behind Jazzy Jay on foot, while he was just walking down the street, bumping his track on some headphones, oblivious to the alien creeping behind him. Next, we went underground on the subway and did a bit of filming until the security kicked us out. The plot-line of the video developed so that Jazzy Jay begins to notice that he is being followed and starts to run, at which point I jump on a skateboard and ride after him.

Lisbon is a picturesque old european city and we filmed scenes all over town – in old alleyways, in the downtown marketplace and in some local parks. The dudes were chill and relaxed, one of the guys did most of the filming, while the other one assisted and rolled joints. We finished up the filming at the Praca do Comercio in the center of lisbon as the sun was going down. In the video, I finally catch up to Jay in the middle of the plaza, he turns around, the mask comes off and he discovers that it was he himself that was chasing him the whole time, or that was the idea at least.