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Moneybagg Yo – Wockesha (Official Music Video)

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Moneybagg Yo turns a styrofoam cup into the most toxic relationship of the summer.

Moneybagg Yo dropped the official video for “Wockesha” on June 30, 2021, and it’s not just another Memphis rap visual — it’s a fully staged breakup drama between a man and a double-stacked cup of lean. Released through CMG and Interscope, the clip arrives as the record continues to build off the momentum of “A Gangsta’s Pain,” the rapper’s fourth studio album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 back in April. The video takes the song’s central metaphor — addiction as a doomed romance — and renders it literally, with a giant foam cup morphing into a woman dressed head-to-toe in purple every time Moneybagg tries to walk away from it.

• Lil Wayne opens the video lip-syncing his own sampled voice from a 2009 Tim Westwood interview, standing behind a counter stacking a double cup with ice.
• The production samples DeBarge’s 1983 single “Stay with Me” underneath the Lil Wayne interview audio.
• “Wockesha” is a standout single off “A Gangsta’s Pain,” which topped the Billboard 200 following its April 2021 release.

The Lil Wayne Cold Open

Before Moneybagg ever appears on screen, Lil Wayne sets the tone. He’s shown behind a counter, dropping ice into a double-stacked styrofoam cup while mouthing the exact words lifted from his 2009 sit-down with Tim Westwood: “Yeah I kinda put the cup down for a minute but um… it ain’t nobody’s business what’s in my cup.” It’s the same soundbite that anchors the song’s intro, and putting Wayne’s face to it turns a decade-old interview clip into the video’s thesis statement before Moneybagg says a word.

A Cup That Won’t Stay Down

Once the beat drops, the visual conceit takes over. That oversized double cup keeps shape-shifting into a woman in purple — Wockesha, the personification of the syrup itself — and Moneybagg spends the rest of the video caught in the same cycle the lyrics describe: pulled in close, pushed away, then pulled right back. He tries to dump the cup more than once, only for it to reappear seconds later, which is essentially the entire “withdrawls I’m feeling different every day I need a dose” verse acted out in real time.

“Sipping chasers with my reefa, can’t get my mind off Wockesha.”

The Sample Doing the Heavy Lifting

DeBarge’s “Stay with Me” gives the production its smooth, almost mournful backbone, a deliberate contrast against lyrics about relapse and dependency. Layering the Lil Wayne audio on top of that 1983 soul sample is what makes the record — and the video built around it — land as something more than a typical drug anthem. It’s a breakup song dressed as a syrup ode, and the visual treatment leans into that romance angle harder than the lyrics alone even do.

The pairing of a decades-old R&B sample with a very current Memphis sound isn’t new territory for this corner of hip-hop — CMG labelmate Yo Gotti has built entire records the same way, as seen in the “Cold Gangsta” video with 42 Dugg and EST Gee. Moneybagg’s version just pushes the metaphor further by making the addiction itself a character on screen.

Placement Within the Album

“Wockesha” isn’t a standalone drop — it’s one of the singles carrying “A Gangsta’s Pain” after the album’s April chart-topping run, giving Moneybagg a second wind of visibility months after the LP’s release. Pairing a Billboard No. 1 album cut with a Lil Wayne cameo and a DeBarge sample is a calculated move, the kind of cross-generational nod that plays well both on rap radio and in video rotation.

The video closes the same way the song does — no resolution, just another relapse. Moneybagg’s out here still holding the cup, and given how “Wockesha” has already been sitting on the strength of “A Gangsta’s Pain,” it’s the kind of visual that keeps a chart single in rotation long after the album’s initial run.