Watsky ft. Pat Dimitri- Amazing Grace - Watsky ft. Pat Dimitri- Amazing Grace

What this video is

Released August 2011 as part of Watsky's 'A New Kind of Sexy Mixtape,' 'Amazing Grace' arrived at the peak of Watsky's YouTube breakout period, months after his 'Pale Kid Raps Fast' video went viral and led to an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The track represents the reflective, introspective side of Watsky's catalog — a spoken-word-inflected meditation on ideology, mortality, and humility — contrasting…

Why it matters

A key document of the 2011 YouTube-native indie rap wave, 'Amazing Grace' blends slam poetry cadences, confessional lyricism, and acoustic instrumentation in a manner that prefigured the spoken-word rap crossover popularized later in the decade. It demonstrates how artists like Watsky used free…

The director

Grady Shon is a music video director active in the early 2010s Los Angeles indie and YouTube-rap scene. IMVDb credits include 'Amazing Grace' by Watsky (2011), 'Mrs. Robinson' by Watsky (2012), and 'New Chick' by Dumbfoundead (2012), suggesting sustained…