Exclusive Premiere: Watch Casper Sun’s New Video for “Sonnie”

By: Staff –

LA-based rapper Casper Sun is back with a new video for his track “Sonnie”, the first single off his upcoming EP Pink Matter.

“There was no budget involved… we aimed to traverse around LA/Koreatown with nothing but a free-app that placed an old-timey VHS filter on your recorded videos,” Casper Sun says on the video. “It was a lot of fun and at the heart of the video is the idea of being happy and making the best and most out of what you have.”

“The inspiration for ‘Sonnie’ was about coming home not only as a changed person, but coming home to a changed place,” Sun continues  “It wasn’t the home I was used to, nor was I the same person I used to be. It felt strange to be living in a place I spent the first 18 years of my life and feel like I’ve only been living there for a month. The “I go from LA back to SD in a hatchback” lyric in the song signifies how sometimes I want to just go back from where I came from, but throughout my raps, I emphasize how I want to make moves, and how I want to keep living.”

Casper Sun is the moniker of suburban musician Edward Chao, who refined his rapping into a genre classified as “mellow-hype” or music to keep you going at a relaxed pace. Last year’s Blue Matter EP was his first step into the scene, establishing himself as a multi-faceted musician who can write love ballads on his guitar just as easily as delivering stone-cold raps from his college-ruled notebook. Stepping into 2019, Chao’s single, “Sonnie”, tells the familiar story of coming back home, but not experiencing what home used to be.