Odd Future’s The Internet release video for ‘Cocaine,’ and it’s a trip

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Warning: The new video for ‘Cocaine,’ by The Internet, contains a lot of stuff that kids or bosses maybe shouldn’t see, including shots of the group’s Syd the Kyd, best known as Odd Future’s DJ/producer and the lone female in the thriving L.A. hip-hop group’s arsenal, snorting what looks to be cocaine and taking ecstasy with a woman she picks up at a fair. There are hallucinatory scenes of the two wandering past Ferris wheels and merry-go-rounds while eye-popping passersby stare at them intently.

While they roam, ‘Cocaine’ plays in the background, a smooth, weird, occasionally clumsy slow jam that draws from the quiet-storm R&B of Frank Ocean, Weeknd and Drake. Odd Future’s Left Brain pops in for a mid-song rhyme, but unfortunately, his lyrics are too salty for us to embed the video above.

All it takes is a finger-click, though. But be forewarned, it’s a pretty insane and surreal clip -- and the final 10 seconds make the whole thing work. Watch it here.

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