Smoke Your Friends

Nicky Scriptz Releases “Smoke Your Friends” With a Psychedelic Grunge Visualizer Nicky Scriptz pushes deeper into his underground visual world with the release of “Smoke Your Friends,” accompanied by a chaotic new official visualizer built around distorted 1990s grunge, psychedelic horror, VHS decay and black-red-white imagery. The new release continues Scriptz’s increasingly recognizable aesthetic: hypnotic eyes, spirals, skeletons, smoke, deteriorating television screens, distorted cartoon imagery and abrasive hand-drawn graphics. Rather than presenting the track through a conventional music video, “Smoke Your Friends” is surrounded by an entire visual environment designed to feel like a corrupted late-night broadcast, underground comic book and forgotten VHS tape colliding at once. The visualizer rapidly shifts between surreal illustrations, grunge textures, flashes, glitches and psychedelic imagery while maintaining the black, red and white visual identity associated with Nicky Scriptz. “I wanted the video to feel like somebody found a damaged tape from another reality. I didn't want it clean. I wanted it overwhelming, hypnotic and memorable.” — Nicky Scriptz #NickyScriptz #SmokeYourFriends #GrungeRap #GrungeHop #Afuya #PowerOutageMovement #Rapfame @rapfame_ar_team @rapfame_official