Diplo’s ‘Suicidal’ Video Shows Us The Surprisingly Somber Side Of Desiigner

If you’ve been lying awake at night guessing what Desiigner’s been up to ever since his “Panda” domination, don’t worry — he’s simply been roaming shirtless around New York, winter weather be damned.


At least, that’s precisely what the Brooklyn rapper is doing in Diplo’s new video for “Suicidal,” a woozy group effort from the DJ’s recently released California EP. In the Shomi Patwary-directed clip, Desiigner, Diplo, along with a couple of impeccably dressed models pensively wander the Manhattan streets at nighttime. All of the while, Desiigner muses, “Tryna hold on the ledge, I’m falling off / Life of Desiigner, zombie walking, I’m walking off.”


“Suicidal” gives us a darker and much more emotional side of the generally spazzy, hyped-up Desiigner. Nevertheless, according to the man himself, that’s just because there really are “different sides” to him.


As for Diplo, he explained the origins of the song in a YouTube comment, writing, “Desiigner came over for a number of days and just locked in on that beat. We wrote a scratch and then several months later cut the vocal and we had a good track. For me its a categorize kind of compromise between some of my main go to producers like Flume Mura Masa as well as a real hip-hop energy that Desiigner brings.”


“Suicidal” is just the latest in a string of new visuals from Diplo — he’s also released vids for the California collabs “Look Back” with DRAM and “Worry No More” with Lil Yachty and Santigold.