Daps directs Quavo in Trance
Produced by Sovereign Bloc and shot in Marbella, Spain, the video brings 16mm texture, camcorder intimacy and Mediterranean heat to the Pharrell Williams-produced track.
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Quavo has released the official music video for Trance, directed by British-Nigerian filmmaker Daps and produced by Sovereign Bloc.
Shot in Marbella, Spain, the video turns the Pharrell Williams-produced track into a sun-drenched Euro summer fever dream: part fashion editorial, part Mediterranean chase, part candlelit late-night fever. Moving through narrow Spanish streets, cafe terraces, poolside heat, coastal glamour and a dinner table that tips from elegance into controlled chaos, Trance captures Quavo in a world of seduction, movement and atmosphere.
Structured around four escalating worlds - the streets, the cafe, the pool and the dinner table - the video opens with freedom and ends in beautiful, expensive chaos. Each location brings its own rhythm, colour and temperature, moving from sun-baked stone and street-level pursuit to blue water, candlelight, wine glasses and the charged intimacy of a night that slowly slips out of control.
The video opens in the bright heat of Spain, where old stone streets, cafe terraces and sun-bleached architecture create a timeless backdrop for a loose cat-and-mouse pursuit. Quavo moves through the location with ease, performing as the camera follows him through a world that feels both lived-in and heightened.
As the track builds, the world expands. A private villa and blue pool become an exhale before the mood shifts again, with bodies, reflections, water, heat and sunlight creating a language of luxury and desire. By night, the video moves into a candlelit dinner setting that begins with old-world elegance before loosening into something more charged, excessive and alive.
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- Director Daps
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- Producer Stefano Moses
- Art Director Jason Austin
- DP Michael Richard Johnson
- Editor Tunde Cutz
- VFX Rick Lancaster
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Credits
powered by- Production Company SOVEREIGN BLOC
- Director Daps
- Executive Producer Daps
- Producer Stefano Moses
- Art Director Jason Austin
- DP Michael Richard Johnson
- Editor Tunde Cutz
- VFX Rick Lancaster
Shot with a mixed-media approach, Trance combines rich 16mm film with camcorder footage to create a visual world that feels both cinematic and immediate. The 16mm gives the video its warmth, grain and sense of timeless sophistication, while the camcorder material brings a raw, first-person energy, as though the viewer has been pulled inside the trip rather than simply watching it from a distance.
For Daps, the aim was to create a video that felt cinematic without losing the instinctive energy of a great music film. "Trance had to feel hot, effortless and a little dangerous," says Daps. "I wanted it to feel like Quavo had stepped into this European dream where every room, street and table had its own rhythm. Marbella gave us the texture, the stone, the heat, the water, the night - and the mix of 16mm and camcorder helped us make it feel polished but still alive." The video's visual language blends fashion-led composition with a more tactile, observational energy. Warm grain, saturated Mediterranean colour, intimate close-ups and looser handheld moments combine to create a world that feels glamorous but never static. The result is a video that moves between luxury and rawness, performance and atmosphere, old-world romance and contemporary rap energy.
Trance also reflects Sovereign Bloc's growing presence across music, culture and visual world-building. Founded by Daps, the filmmaker-led production company was built for directors and artists looking to create work with authorship, scale and cultural force.
Edited by Tunde Cutz, with colour by Rachel Kong and FX by Rick Lancaster, the video continues Daps' long-standing connection to music culture, following influential work for artists including Migos, Stormzy, Wizkid, Davido and Drake.
