A while ago we already heard about Jack Splash's upcoming animated short film in which Lupe lends his voice to one of the characters.
XXLmag.com reported that Lupe would voice Baatin from Slum Village in this film, turns out that that's not exactly how it is. Jack Splash revealed some more details about the film in an interview with Verbicide Mag:
Verbicide Mag: What’s up with the Jack Splash Technology and Love Might Save Us All… short animation we’ve been hearing about? Who is it produced by? What’s the style of it? When will be start seeing signs of it on the internet?
Jack: I’m just putting the finishing touches on it now. It is mini-movie that I made that accompanies this album. I’m really particular about what type of visual art I like, so it took me a while to find someone with the style I really liked.
I wanted it to be this weird mixture of Dr. Seuss meets Salvador Dali with a little knowledge sprinkled in like Basquiat. I finally found these really cool animators who lived in South Africa who have a really cool and psychedelic style, so we met up in New York and set everything into motion.
It was an expensive and time-intensive endeavor, but it’s important to me to give people something special with my art. Don’t believe the hype that all these major corporate entities keep trying to force feed us about how “nobody buys music” anymore….that’s bullshit! People still buy art when it’s good. They just don’t buy the bullshit!
The movie stars Cee-Lo as the narrator and is based around this little boy with a million questions about the world and this weird funky robot who comes down in a butterfly spaceship and kind of becomes his interplanetary guru.
It was inspired by my friendship with Baatin (from Slum Village), who was an amazing person and had such a bright spirit. Lupe Fiasco plays the voice of the robot and Janelle Monae plays the voice of the child. I’m really excited about it. It should be out very soon!
Click HERE to read the full interview!
LupeTheRobot, huh? lol
nice interview shout to sean
ReplyDeleteyo sean i was trying to go on the shoutmix it said i got banned what did i do to get banned all i did was support lupe. so sean please for to put me back on there. my ip number is 66.97.145.2
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