KnockturnaLIST: The Music Videos of 2017 that We Loved

Young Thug – Wyclef Jean

Album: Jeffery (2016)
Director: Ryan Staake

Young Thug’s video for Wyclef Jean, from last year’s Jeffery, garnered more than a million views in its first 24 hours online. The driving force behind the video’s success is, oddly, its failures. Director Ryan Staake, in interviews he has given since the video’s release, claims that Young Thug did not even show up. Staake decided, on the spot, to recreate the story of Young Thug’s mental processes, and did his best to depict what he thought Young Thug would want his video to be. Nevertheless, the video is a party.