Clipse within the ‘Chains and Whips’ music video. Picture:
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Clipse have dropped a mesmerizing and unsettling new video for “Chains & Whips,” the standout observe with Kendrick Lamar from the hip-hop duo’s long-awaited new album, Let God Sort Em Out.
Directed by Gabriel Moses, the visible is basically crammed with considerably extraordinary scenes which are rendered with unusual, stretched-out results. The uncanny feeling these photos conjure is complemented by rather more direct photographs of each day life, magnificence pageants, and church companies, in addition to males operating from cops and navigating life in jail.
Whereas each Pusha T and Malice seem within the clip, Lamar doesn’t. The video additionally boasts an ideal put up script, by which two girls stand on a porch and ship an a cappella rendition of Clipse’s breakthrough 2022 basic, “Grindin’.”
Clipse launched Let God Kind Em Out final week, with the album marking the duo’s first in since 2009’s Til the Casket Drops. The brand new LP was produced by longtime collaborator Pharrell Williams, and together with Lamar it options contributions from John Legend, Tyler, the Creator, Nas, and extra.
“Chains & Whips” notably sparked some behind-the-scenes controversy earlier than Let God Kind Em Out was launched. Whereas Lamar’s verse doesn’t instantly point out Drake, the lyric evaluate division at Common Music Group frightened that one line is likely to be “controversial” in relation to Drake’s lawsuit against UMG. (He claims they improperly inflated the recognition of Lamar’s hit diss, “Not Like Us.”) Somewhat than ask Lamar to alter the verse or line, Clipse negotiated a launch from Def Jam Recordings (a UMG subsidiary) and launched the album themselves. Jay-Z’s Roc Nation dealt with the distribution.
Clipse will embark on a North American tour in help of Let God Kind Em Out subsequent month. The trek kicks off Aug. 3 in Boston and wraps Sept. 10 in Detroit.
From Rolling Stone US.