Big Dawgs, Little Bricks: Hanumankind As LEGO Character?
Waiting for Hanumankind's reaction to this, honestly
On most days on the Internet, it is all about brainrot content. It has become the new obsession. Either everyone is busy remaking the infamous Carlsen and Gukesh video from the latest Chess tournament or on the quest to share the best way to make a bowl of chicken curry. Someone make it stop!
On the contrary, every once in a while, something so niche, so perfectly executed comes along that it makes us forget about all the shizzy content we have been consuming that entire week. Probably months sometimes.
Case in point: What We Cookin?, a relatively under-the radar YouTube channel just released a shot-for-shot LEGO remake of Hanumankind's high-octane music video Big Dawgs.
The reimagined video that surfaced on YouTube a couple of days ago transforms the rapper's swagger-heavy visuals into a meticulously detailed LEGO-verse and the results are as weirdly catchy and cute!
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Of course, the fans flooded the comment section of the video with their usuals, "we got LEGO Hanumankind before GTA VI", "love it" and the hilarious one "fun fact he doesn't have toes" referring to the LEGO version on the rapper and the lyrics "Wait a minute (uh), get it how you live it (uh)
Ten toes in when we standin' on business."
The endearing animated video is detailed and doesn't miss a beat when reimagining it from the original video - some serious motion-capture-level patience. It is childhood toy meeting grown-a** flex as this is one of the most unexpected pop culture mashups.
But Hanumankind isn't the only artist to ever get a LEGO animation or brickfilm. Like collecting LEGO sets is more of hobby than children's game , the demand making the LEGO prices sky rocket, apparently the LEGO-lised versions of music videos is also something sought-after.
While the LEGO video doesn't make the song lose its original charm or its edge, it refracts it through an entirely different visual grammar- the soft surrealism of The LEGO Movie.
It is no surprise then, that the LEGO culture itself has long outgrown the toy aisle, just ask AFOLS: Adult Fans Of LEGO. In fact, some of the brainrot content that we were talking about earlier has videos around building LEGO sets. We have seen those LEGO characters edited into crime scenes, thirst traps, fight club memes, and ironic mashups with Euphoria voice overs.
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One moment you are watching a peaceful build of a bonsai tree; next you watch a reel where a LEGO Batman is twerking to Yeat. So, in that sense, LEGO Big Dawgs manages to be ridiculously endearing and reverent. Nevertheless, creative.
We are not sure if the rapper of knows he's now a LEGO character in a really cool video.