Gratuitous and blood splattered, Donte Peace’s newest video, “After Hours”, channels the rapper’s dark side. It’s not for everybody and it’s certainly NSFW. Adot The God produced it and Brian Tolliver probably spilled fake blood all over his camera directing it.
Category: Video
VIDEO: “Final Goodbye” – Fearce Vill (dir. by Jonathan Parrot)
Yuk Mob’s Fearce Vill with a passing tribute to the folks he’s lost to the other side. Bean One hooked the beat up, and Jonathan Parrot got behind the lens.
VIDEO: “Float” – Porter Ray (dir. by Malcolm Proctor & Astro King Phoenix)
Porter Ray quietly dropped this video for “Float” (off his BLK GLD LP of last year) back in April. PR’s flow is the aural equivalent of a perfectly meandering channel of water. Smoke one in a quiet forest and watch a stream eddy and progress by. You’ll see what I mean.
VIDEO: “Venus In Transit” – RA Scion & Vox Mod (feat. Blake Lewis; dir. by Casey Sjogren)
(Sorry, can’t get the embed code to work for the full video. Above is a preview clip. View the entire thing, here.)
RA Scion’s new video for “Venus In Transit” — featuring production by Seattle electronic music maestro Vox Mod and vocals by Blake Lewis — premiered yesterday on Yahoo Music. The video, directed by Casey Sjogren, looks and sounds great, and feels different from everything RA has released previously (though his role reprisal as a member of the proletariat class is steadily familiar). Blake Lewis (whose Portrait of a Chameleon dropped May 20) does his best Justin Timberlake impression in the dramatic clip. “Venus In Transit” is from RA and Vox’s Sharper Tool Bigger Weapon.
VIDEO: “Cult Leader” – Sadistik
Fake Four recording artist Sadistik lives up to his nom de guerre in his latest self-directed video, “Cult Leader”. “Meant to cause discomfort,” this is a hell of a way to introduce the veteran MC’s upcoming album, Ultraviolet (due July 1), which features such hip hop luminaries as Nacho Picasso, Tech N9ne, and the late Eyedea.
VIDEO: “We Can Go Blind” – The Flavr Blue (dir. by Jon Jon Augustavo)
The Flavr Blue get moody on their latest single and video, “We Can Go Blind”, directed by Jon Jon Augustavo. Here the trio remain still — relatively for them if you’ve ever seen one of their live performances — and allow ballerina Kate Chamberlain to interpret the electronic ballad.
VIDEO: “Who I Am” – Steezie Nasa
Moor Gang soldier Steezie Nasa with a new clip. “Who I Am” was produced by HDxMulla and featured on Steezie’s latest, Lucky 7.
VIDEO: “Two Sides” – Rockwell Powers & DJ Phinisey (dir. by Yusuf Word)
“Two Sides” is the first track from Rockwell Powers and DJ Phinisey’s Build record to get the video treatment, courtesy of Portland’s Yusuf Word. Behind-the-scenes staging and live performance footage of the duo’s albums release party last fall are interpolated nicely.
VIDEO: “On 1” – Ricky and Mark
Ricky Pharoe and Mark Gajadhar are “On 1” (see what I did there?) in their new video. Shot on Orcas Island (a brief whale ride away from my hometown of Lopez), I like how the off-beat hip hop track re-fits into the context of the outdoors. Shot by Griff J.
VIDEO: “Slugs Around” – BenadriLL & Mo’ Money (dir. by Roof Dogg)
Fresh from the LakeHouse Ent. collective is their new video for “Slugs Around” featuring raps by BenadriLL and Mo’ Money, with the loyal RoofDogg behind the lens. The Lake crew is best known for its free-thinking ways, a willingness to let blind creativity take the reins that often results in a see-what-sticks-against-the-wall type dopeness. I think that’s hella cold.
For a behind-the-scenes look at this particular video, click here for LakeHouse’s first “Street Lectures” entry which follows Keith, one of the music video’s accidental stars, on his way to traffic court in San Francisco. “Street Lectures” is an experimental series that endeavors to dig deeper into the particular quirks and tics of the neighborhoods in which the Lake shoot their videos.
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