TWENTY88 - Talk Show

What this video is

Released April 2016 as part of the TIDAL-exclusive 'Out of Love' short film, 'Talk Show' reflects the mid-2010s fascination with celebrity couples performing and examining their relationships in public. The TWENTY88 project—a hip-hop/R&B duo vehicle for Big Sean and Jhené Aiko—debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, representing a peak moment in the era of prestige streaming exclusives and…

Why it matters

Represents the apex of mid-2010s hip-hop/R&B hybrid duo format, where rap cadence and neo-soul melody share equal compositional weight. The talk-show conceit is a rare structural innovation in music video narrative, using television genre parody to externalize interpersonal conflict. The video's…

The director

Lawrence Lamont is an American music video and short film director known for visually ambitious narrative-driven projects in hip-hop and R&B. He wrote and directed the 15-minute TWENTY88 short film 'Out of Love' (2016), which encompassed the 'Talk Show'…