Billboard Exclusive: DaBaby Breaks Down His "Trickin" Music Video | Billboard - video Dailymotion

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DaBaby breaks down his new music video for his song "Trickin'" exclusively for Billboard.

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00:00 ♪ Yeah ♪

00:02 - What's up Billboard, it's DaBaby.

00:06 Right now, this is an exclusive behind the scenes look

00:09 into my music video for "Trickin'",

00:11 directed by DaBaby.

00:13 ♪ Trickin', all these niggas trickin' ♪

00:17 ♪ Trickin', trickin' real good ♪

00:21 - Um, what does trickin' mean?

00:22 I actually learned this when I learned about

00:25 I was shooting this video from my friend Crispy over here.

00:29 Crispy, come here.

00:30 He's trickin' me.

00:32 - Sophie, I think you would be the best to answer this.

00:36 Oh, Gianni.

00:37 - What do I know?

00:38 - How did you explain what trickin' means to us earlier?

00:40 - Uh.

00:40 - So you really gotta be with the older guy, right?

00:44 And you trickin' on him, but you have a young guy at home.

00:48 - And does the young guy know about the old guy?

00:49 - Yes, he eats too.

00:51 (laughing)

00:52 - Okay, so the overall concept of this song, "Trickin'",

00:55 is just based upon giving the females the knowledge needed

00:59 to get whatever they need to get out of a man

01:01 who feels like he can buy his way to your heart.

01:03 - Trickin', you're basically taking care of a girl's,

01:06 not only her needs, but her wants also.

01:09 She gets princess treatment all of the time.

01:11 That's what a trick is.

01:13 - It's a women empowerment song.

01:14 - Can I trick on somebody?

01:16 - Shout out to my guy, Logan, the director of photography.

01:19 Let's start off getting her covers.

01:22 So if it's the wide shot, the establishing shot,

01:24 with everybody coming in, let's get that,

01:25 and then let's just shoot out of order.

01:28 Logan, I've been working with him since about 2017,

01:30 when I was a local artist, so it's just a beautiful thing

01:33 to just see people grow on their own journey.

01:36 We have the restaurant scene coming up.

01:39 And I wanted to just add a little extra spice to it.

01:41 We're spray painting the food gold.

01:43 You know, the guy, he's gonna wanna date

01:44 a nice, beautiful young lady.

01:46 Hey, Hal!

01:47 I don't think he sees or hears us, but, you know,

01:51 he's gonna be on point when the camera gets to rolling, man.

01:54 He's not gonna get what he wants at the end of the day,

01:56 you know what I'm saying?

01:56 She's gonna get what she wants.

01:57 A $25,000 steak, $17,000 cheeseburger,

02:01 $8,500 french fries.

02:04 You wanna bite?

02:05 Bon appetit.

02:05 Hi, Billboard, my name is April Rivera.

02:07 I own Abe Castings.

02:09 I've been working with DaBaby

02:10 in all of his music videos since 2016.

02:14 This is Hal, and today he's gonna be one of our leads.

02:18 DaBaby's gonna be teaching these ladies

02:19 how to get the most money out of these men.

02:23 Ah-ha!

02:24 And I can do that.

02:26 We're gonna establish the scene, what's going on.

02:29 We'll have the waitress come in, just push past him,

02:32 and we'll land right here where we're focusing at

02:35 with our star, Hal.

02:36 Yeah, don't leave me hanging, baby, there we go.

02:39 All right, let's do it.

02:40 Camera speed, and action.

02:42 [upbeat music]

02:45 Bye, bye.

02:47 Let's reset, yeah.

02:48 When she introduces these super high-end items,

02:50 I wanna do it like product shots, almost.

02:52 I don't wanna leave room for the text,

02:55 for the graphics that fly in, it says what it is,

02:57 and then it just runs into that.

02:59 [imitates drum roll]

03:00 You know what I'm saying?

03:01 Shout out to my creative director, it's Rel Fly, Molo.

03:04 So I go by the name of Rel Fly,

03:06 I'm a creative director on this project.

03:07 DaBaby as a director, he knows what he wants.

03:10 Let's try covering it from over her shoulder.

03:11 I like the mug, that's what it needs.

03:13 My secret weapon when it comes to creative direction,

03:15 all things Molo are all things beautiful.

03:17 Our creative direction is more just schoolgirl,

03:21 we're gonna break a trick, get money.

03:23 It's gonna be a crazy video.

03:24 DaBaby is the most creative person I've ever worked with.

03:27 We're like a tag team.

03:28 He feeds off of me, I feed off of him,

03:30 and we just make magic.

03:32 I have the best assistant in the world, Stephanie,

03:34 who also did art design.

03:36 Welcome to Billion Dollar Baby University.

03:38 This book is the Bible of how to trick.

03:42 We made these custom BDB University mugs last night.

03:47 We got some really, really nice signs.

03:49 We decked out the desk to make it look like a classroom.

03:52 So Dr. Kirk comes from DaBaby's real name,

03:54 it's Jonathan Kirk, so here we have Dr. Kirk.

03:56 Give a round of applause for Stephanie.

03:58 Let's get a round of applause in here.

04:00 Let's check on the ladies.

04:04 I wanna say hey to Billboard.

04:06 We're super excited, we're all gonna be playing

04:08 beautiful schoolgirls.

04:09 We have these cute schoolgirl outfits

04:11 with these blue skorts.

04:13 We're gonna be learning how to properly trick

04:15 a sugar daddy.

04:16 Hi, right now I'm just getting really pretty.

04:19 Well, I'm already pretty, but I'm getting prettier.

04:21 Can you just tell me what is that?

04:22 This wig is for the baby.

04:24 - What's the size you're talking about?

04:26 - I guess the 70s pimp look.

04:28 - When my character comes all the way together,

04:29 when this beautiful 18 inch wig falls on my head

04:33 and my hat goes on over top of it, you know,

04:36 Gucci will make sense.

04:37 I'm playing a pimp, you know what I'm saying?

04:39 A reformed pimp.

04:40 - All right, so baby, next scene,

04:42 this the master shot in the classroom.

04:43 He's coming in there to teach, swag, you know,

04:46 you know what I'm saying, be baby, basically.

04:48 - Get my wig, it's up.

04:50 With the storytelling concept of the video,

04:51 I be, you know, the instructor of a Trichonomics 101 class.

04:56 So what I did was turn the song into a book.

04:59 Dr. Seuss, these are not for sale.

05:01 Do not sue us, Dr. Seuss.

05:04 It's a story that I'm reading out loud.

05:06 I'm giving a lecture on the book that I wrote called Trigger.

05:09 You'll see a lot of colorful set design,

05:11 playful energy throughout the song and just fun storytelling.

05:14 Bring her in.

05:15 Bring her in.

05:17 Bring her in.

05:21 Hold on, let me stand up like this.

05:23 Bring her in.

05:25 I need a towel or something.

05:28 - My name is Quandra, but everybody calls me Q.

05:34 I'm the wig master.

05:35 I actually styled it and I cut it and I curled it.

05:38 - Yes, Lord, get the stats, you know what I'm saying?

05:41 Trichonomics 101.

05:43 It's all in the stats, baby.

05:44 Yeah.

05:46 One thing about me and a lot of the people, you know,

05:49 that I got around me, that I gravitate

05:51 towards like we wear several hats, man,

05:53 and everybody's down for the cause.

05:55 Action.

05:56 Where my boy Joe at?

05:57 - It's Joe the man here.

05:58 I'm DaBaby's personal photographer.

06:00 So Baby asked me to play the guitar in the video.

06:03 So you know what?

06:04 I said, I'm not only gonna play the guitar,

06:06 I'm gonna rock out on the guitar.

06:07 I'm gonna trick the guitar, baby.

06:09 - Keep it going, keep it going.

06:10 From the top, let's do this take all the way live,

06:12 whole time.

06:13 - She wanna get hit in the chest.

06:14 - You see this shot?

06:15 - She just went and got away with the last shot right here.

06:16 - Once I have an idea, once I'm locked in on it,

06:18 I'm super big on just, you know,

06:20 going as far as I can to get the vision across

06:23 and put it in front of viewers.

06:24 I'm all about making people smile,

06:25 making people move, making people dance.

06:27 So I like to create a world

06:28 and just live life in that world to the fullest.

06:31 Shout out to everybody involved

06:33 with making this masterpiece that we have.

06:36 This music video and this beautiful song called "Trickin".

06:39 - T-Rock!

06:39 - Trickin.

06:40 - Yes!

06:41 - Woo!

06:42 - They trickin' real good.

Billboard Exclusive: DaBaby Breaks Down His "Trickin" Music Video | Billboard

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