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Our favourite awkward Skrillex moments from A$AP Rocky's new video

by Tyler Munro

A$AP Rocky was nice enough to bring buddy Skrillex along to the Dominican Republic for their “Wild for the Night” video, which aside from its irritating minute long preamble succeeds with its throw-back, big budget bits of party rocking.

It’s great, but there’s one trend that carries throughout the clip’s lengthy six-minutes: when he’s not sheltered by a gigantic DJ stack, Skrillex is pretty awkward. Like, Michael Cera and Jesse Eisenberg giving each other props awkward. Don’t believe us?

Here’s how it looks when Rocky’s dancing in the dark:

And here’s how Skrillex joins in:

Not bad. Pretty harmless. Then he does this:

“I don’t know what to do with my hands!”

Basically, he just jumps around a lot:

Gets Rocky to join him:

Jump montage!

And still can’t figure out what to do with his hands:

They both look awkward enough on these scooters, but did we just catch a quick Skrillex duck face?

He eventually gets behind his booth and all is well… until this face when the bass inevitably drops: