Kid Cudi Parties With Drake in "Pursuit of Happiness" Video

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The new video for Kid Cudi's "Pursuit of Happiness," the rapper's Man on the Moon: The End of Day collaboration with rockers MGMT and Ratatat, leaked today — and was swiftly pulled off video sites (RS will post a copy when it becomes available again). All that big talent, but the biggest name involved in the clip is actually actor Josh Hartnett, who produced. Brody Baker, whose video for Animal Collective's "My Girls" caught Cudi's eye, directed the spot, which is essentially just a night in the party-filled life of Cudi, with some cool slow-motion techniques thrown in for good measure.

Apparently neither MGMT nor Ratatat received an invitation to the party, but Artist to Watch Drake shows up and assists Cudi in splashing down a pack of unsuspecting female friends with champagne. "We were just kicking it. When you see the video, it just makes me feel good, because I'm seeing all my friends and people that matter in my life," Cudi told MTV. "We were all celebrating. It's like a New Year's Eve-type thing. Everybody's just getting wasted." Cudi also hinted at possibly shooting another clip for the song, this time with MGMT and Ratatat.

Meanwhile, as Rolling Stone previously reported, Cudi and Drake will face off Grammy night on January 31st in both the Best Rap Song and Best Rap Solo Performance categories — Drake for "Best I Ever Had" and Cudi for "Day N Nite."

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“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Fishbone | 1985

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.

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