Kaash Paige, 6LACK - Miss My Dawgs

What this video is

Released in September 2022, 'Miss My Dawgs' arrived during a period of sustained Gen-Z-driven alt-R&B dominance on streaming platforms, two years after Kaash Paige's debut LP Teenage Fever (2020) and as she built toward her anticipated Def Jam sophomore album The Fall Off. The sci-fi visual language of the video transforms a deeply personal theme — grief over lost friendships, betrayal by former allies, and the…

Why it matters

The video exemplifies the early-2020s evolution of alt-R&B visual language: where peers leaned into hyper-stylized fashion shoots or lyric videos, Marmorstein and Paige committed to full narrative sci-fi world-building on a music video budget. The pairing of two introspective, genre-fluid R&B…

The director

Justin 'Marmo' Marmorstein is a Los Angeles-based director and founder of Marmo Films, a production company established in 2006 following his graduation from the Los Angeles Film School (majoring in Directing, minoring in Editing). A member of the Directors…