Who would have thought that the lead actor of the Transformers franchise was a fan of rap, let alone friends of KiD CuDi even? Apparently, LaBeouf has been slated to helm the director’s seat to two of CuDi’s new videos: ‘Maniac’ and ‘Marijuana.’ The interesting part is how this whole ensemble actually came about. With that, guess the statement is true, ‘It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.’ And with that, if it wasn’t for CuDi’s feature Cage who knew LaBeouf really well; all this would never have come about.

During Shia LeBeouf’s promotional run of the upcoming ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon,’ they caught up with the actor/aspiring director and inquired about how  every came about with CuDi and Cage, and how it ended with a trip to Amsterdam’s infamous Cannabis Cup.

These were his comments:

“[Cage] is one of my good friends. Cage, Chris Palko, and I had been trying to make a movie about him for a while,” LaBeouf explained. “Cudi hit [Cage] up and did a song with him. Cage sent me the song, called ‘Maniac,’ so initially, we started prepping this video, which is really like a short horror movie that I made that comes out on Halloween,” he said. “In the interim, while we were finishing up the effects on it, [Cudi] told me he was going to Amsterdam for the Cannabis Cup.”

LaBeouf actually jumped at the chance to continue working with Cudi, and laughed at the trip to the Amsterdam was way too good to let go:

“It’s as big as Spielberg,” he said with a laugh. “It is for a 25-year-old male who has all these crazy fantasies about Amsterdam, which every male my age has, there’s that college trip you always want to take,” he admitted. “And to do that with Cudi when he’s a judge, and I get to roll with him with my 8mm camera [like] an ‘Easy Rider’ documentarian, I felt like Cameron Crowe or something.”

Keep posted to 24hourhiphop.com for those two upcoming videos directed by Shia LaBeouf for KiD CuDi.