Big Sean - Lithuania ft. Travis Scott

What this video is

Released September 4, 2020, simultaneously with Big Sean's fifth studio album Detroit 2 on GOOD Music/Def Jam Recordings, 'Lithuania' arrived during a period of heightened cultural introspection shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread racial justice movements in the United States. The album represented Big Sean's return to his Detroit roots, functioning as a sequel to his beloved 2012 mixtape and cementing…

Why it matters

A flagship visual from the Detroit trap-prestige movement of 2020, 'Lithuania' demonstrates the maturation of music video production within mainstream hip-hop: literary intertextuality (Kubrick's The Shining), psychological narrative construction, and auteur-level directorial vision applied to a…

The director

Born in Los Angeles and raised throughout Chicagoland, Mike Carson is a Grammy-nominated, award-winning multidisciplinary director, designer, and creative director. He is the founder of The 92 Group, a multidisciplinary design studio. His clients include…