In Demand: How Will Child became hip-hop’s go-to claymation creator
, which uses action figures and stars Lanez as supervillain Argentina Fargo.
Even during a pandemic, Child remains busier than ever, recently launching his new animation studio, Gravy Mercedes, named for a Cam’ron bar from the Diplomats song “I Really Mean It,” and is toying with the idea of also having it be a record label. “I’m not sure how serious it is at the moment,” he says. “I’d like to figure out some kind of cooperative label situation where those guys come up with the music side of things, and I take control of the full visual side.
Real or not, he does have a first release that he even helped produce: a reworked version of Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” from Florida rapper Big Baby Scumbag. The song will be included on Big Baby’s June 12 mixtape, and Child describes the track as “trap with a tinge of country.” To support the song, Child is making a promo video and an animated lyric video. “It was my first dip into record producing in a very superficial way,” he says. “I’ll be P. Diddy by this time next year.
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