Run The Jewels are fresh off of high energy performances at SXSW with many eyes being turned towards Killer Mike recenly due to his shoutout by Kendrick on ‘Hood Politics’. They take full advantage of the attention and release a conceptual video for ‘Close Your Eyes’, which shows a fight between a police officer and a black male but it’s more complex than you can imagine.
Here’s what El-P had to say about it:
This is a vision of a seemingly never ending struggle whose participants are pitted against each other by forces originating outside of themselves.
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