Paradise Records

Paradise Records is rapper-turned-filmmaker Logic's directorial debut, a love letter to record store culture and indie filmmaking that follows Kevin Smith's Clerks playbook: one location, self-financed, shot with friends. Logic plays Cooper, a Napoleon Dynamite-esque record store owner in Portland's Greater Portland area whose beloved shop faces closure. Smith himself served as editor and mentor after casting Logic in a small role in his 2024 film The 4:30 Movie and encouraging the leap into features. Filmed on location at an actual Portland record store, the production embraces its micro-budget constraints with wall-to-wall cameos: Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes reprise Jay and Silent Bob, while Deidrich Bader, Phil Lamarr, Ron Perlman, Bobby Lee, Juicy J, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt all make appearances. The hangout film, which centers on a day in the life of Cooper and his eccentric staff as they try to save the shop, premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival in the Spotlight Narrative section on June 6, 2025. True to its DIY ethos, Logic and his team at BobbyBoy Productions handled distribution themselves, setting up VOD releases and printing Blu-rays without studio backing. The Blu-ray pre-sales alone surpassed $1 million. For Portland visitors, the film showcases the city's deep connection to independent music culture and vinyl collecting, capturing the spirit of the neighborhood record shop as community gathering place.