Clipse Release 'Culturally Inappropriate' Video For 'Chains & Whips' Feat. Kendrick Lamar
From a diapered-toddler, to a beauty pageant, to a prison, to a church, to a strip club, the video uses various settings to add an additional artistic point of view to the collaboration, which caused ominous buzz ahead of the album's release.
The 'Chains & Whips' music video ends with two women on a porch, performing a rendition of Clipse's 2002 hit 'Grindin'.' One handles the classic beat while the other takes on the lyrics. A young boy stands to their side, poised next to the United States flag.
'What happened was, basically, we were in the studio creating, we had the record. We were in the studio just creating an album, and his publisher happened to be in the studio. It was in Paris, and just was listening and called Dot and was like, 'Listen, you need to be on this album.' And so we sent him a few records. I was like, 'Man, listen here, take them, whatever you want.' And man, through everything that was going on, man, he really came back with that,' explained Pusha T to Apple Music's Ebro Darden.
'And I mean, if you just think about the time, it was like anybody could have used the excuse not to. You know what I'm saying?'
Let God Sort Em Out was officially released last week (July 11), following a keenly executed roll-out from the Virginia-bred lyricists. With all production handled by Pharrell Williams, the 13-track album features Tyler, The Creator, Nas, Stove God Cooks, The-Dream, John Legend, Ab-Liva, and Voices Of Fire.
'So we were talking and I thought he actually came up with the title, he thought I came up with the title, but I think that just speaks to how innate we are with our album and album themes. Hell Have No Fury, Lord Willing, Til the Casket Drops. We just wanted to keep with the same thing,' explained Malice.
Listen to Let God Sort Em Out below and take a look at the music video for 'Chains & Whips' above.
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