Chet Hanks is entering into his father’s footwear in a brand new music video, recreating a number of scenes from Forrest Gump, dressing because the character, and even inviting Tom Hanks for a cameo.
Like many males earlier than him, Chet Hanks has made the pivot from hip-hop to nation music, and he’s teamed up with singer-songwriter Drew Arthur for the brand new duo One thing Out West. They made their debut with “Leaving Hollywood” final month, and now, they’re again with the nation rock monitor “You Higher Run.”
Although the tune doesn’t reference the 1994 movie past the playful title, the music video goes full Forrest Gump parody, with Hanks donning the character’s blue and gray go well with and reprising the long-lasting bench scene from the film. Hanks additionally seems on a ship impressed by Gump’s shrimping vessel and recreates the movie’s “run throughout America” sequence.
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Across the minute-and-a-half mark, Tom Hanks reveals up on the park bench seated subsequent to his son, who remains to be dressed as Gump. He tilts his sun shades down, appears to be like on the digital camera in disbelief, and shakes his head. On the finish of the video, Chet provides his dad an enormous hug and a thumbs as much as the digital camera. Watch the video for “You Higher Run” under.
Chet Hanks and Arthur fashioned One thing Out West in California, the place they have been roommates. Discovering sobriety and shifting out to Nashville, the duo signed with the nation large Huge Machine Information and are at the moment within the studio with producer Julian Raymond engaged on their debut album. It’s Chet’s newest foray into music, following his derided debut hip-hop single in 2021 “White Boy Summer time.” He additionally signed to Soulja Boy’s document label and launched the collab “I FUX WITCHA,” however by no means launched any extra hip-hop tunes on the label.
In the meantime, he returned to performing this 12 months with Netflix’s Operating Level, and you recognize what? He was truly fairly good in it!
