2019
Video
LAD - Hak Baker
Description
Director : Kes Glozier
LADS : Hector Abbott & Carnell Thompson
Producers : Egalite.tv / Jeremy Taffin and Hervé Lavayssière
Director of Photography : Jaime Ackroyd
Editor : Jeremy Taffin
Colorgrader : Jade de Brito
Line Producer : Jaz Wasson
Steadycamer : Will Lyte
Focus Puller : Jerry Pradon
2nd AC : Ignacio Munoz de Leon
Gaffer : Ryan Monteith
Sound engineer : Mirko Simoni
Sound Design and mix : Nicolas Ghyselen @ Capitaine Plouf
Driver : Marco Siano
Extras : Gwyneth Ellis / Malachi Woodniffe / Maggie Gates / Tanayah Woodniffe / Ashfar Keyani / Dee Ludorman / Charlotte Higgins / Shewea Mayers
Production Assistant : Caspian Adib
A production of Egalite.tv
With the help of CNC (Centre National du Cinéma)
Song Credits
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Written, performed and co-produced by Hak Baker for Hak Attack Records
Recorded and produced by Ali Bla Bla for Lonesome Dog Studios, London
Drums written and performed by Aaron Perkins
Mixed by Guy Buss
Mastered by Slade Templeton for Influx Studios, Bern
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Here is the description written by i-D team for the premiere of the music video :
Hak’s latest single Lad explores life right before adulthood hits, and what exactly that means. If you were a lad, the lyrics theorise, then you're willing to risk everything and never look back. It talks of a decade of highs and lows, of lads wearing Prada, throwing eggs, dropping bricks, trips to the barber, going out on the town, going to jail. A lived social commentary, this is his reflection on growing up in London.
"This song is for my crew and other crews like it who attacked life, who believed that they were here for a reason, and who were gonna take their chance anywhere and everywhere,” Hak told i-D over email last night. “Sometimes it could be a dark and aggressive place, hence the baseline, but it was also wonderful, adventurous and magical. Lad is time machine vibes for me. It’s very personal -- I hope it reaches out to the people out there who’s had it or are havin’ it.”
Calling on Kes Glozier to direct -- with production from Egalite.tv in collaboration with CNC (Centre National de Cinéma) -- we’re stoked to be premiering the accompanying video here today. “The concept was inspired by a shared experience of being born and growing up on one of London's council estates,” says Kez Glozier. “I didn't want to go for the stereotypical working class ‘experience’, so to balance it out I wrote in the quiet and fantastical moments. The story is also about our frustrations and how we act them out when we are younger, with an uncontrolled anger that can push you suddenly across the line. One simple uncontrolled action can change your life forever.”
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