"But I believe that it is important that the way we feel when we see these events in real life has an effect on us. Limited edition Soundwaves Artwork created from the audio of Run The Jewels 2014 jam 'Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck).' Killer Mike and El-P hand-signed each of these prints before their headlining performance at Shaky Knees festival in Atlanta, GA in October 2021. It is tough to re-create moments that are so fresh and prevalent in our world today. I can tell you it was an emotional shoot day. They breathed complex life into two people who are usually portrayed in simplistic ways - as archetypes. The initially off-hand team-up between Killer Mike and El-P. "I am really proud of where we ended up, and I am very thankful that our actors Shea Whigham and Keith Stanfield committed to these characters 100%. Zack De La Rocha : Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck). They've already fought their ways past their judgements and learned hatred toward one another. Our goal was to highlight the futility of the violence, not celebrate it. The film begins and it feels like they have been fighting for days, they’re exhausted, not a single punch is thrown, their violence is communicated through clumsy, raw emotion. They're people - complex, real people and, as such, the power had to shift between them at certain points throughout the story. "For me, it was important to write a story that didn’t paint a simplistic portrait of the characters of the Cop and Kid. They're not stereotypes. It's provocative, and we all knew this, so we were tasked with making something that expressed the intensity of senseless violence without eclipsing our humanity. We had to exploit the lyrics and aggression and emotion of the track, and translate that into a film that would ignite a valuable and productive conversation about racially motivated violence in this country. I felt a sense of responsibility to do just that. "When Run The Jewels sent me this track, I knew we had the opportunity to create a film that means something.
Salutes to AG Rojas for his unique take on the subject matter and to Shea and Keith for giving us their all and bringing it to life." However, there is an opportunity for dialogue and to change the way communities are policed in this country. Both won the acclaim of media and fans across the. The following week, Killer Mike appeared on the track 'Tougher Colder Killer', from El-P's album Cancer 4 Cure.
In 2012, El-P produced Killer Mike's critically acclaimed album R.A.P. "This video represents the futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system," says Killer Mike "There is no neat solution at the end because there is no neat solution in the real world. Run the Jewels is an American hip-hop duo that consists of emcee/producer El-P and emcee Killer Mike. It may seem to run counter to the fierce polemic for which RTJ's Killer Mike and El-P (to say nothing of De la Rocha) have become renowned. But they say it gels with their views that it's the whole system, rather than rogue individuals, that is the problem. It's not quite a case of mutual hatred, and in fact, there is no 'bad guy' here. It's beautifully crafted, with amazing cinematography by Michael Ragen. It's also a surprisingly ambiguous exercise, in which the personalities of the actors (Shea Whigham and Keith Stanfield) and the extreme physical demands of their roles - has an inevitable impact on what we're seeing.
#Close your eyes and count run the jewle full#
" Read the full statement on the Run The Jewels site now.AG Rojas's ambitious and arguably controversial video for Run The Jewels' Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck), featuring Zack de la Rocha from Rage Against The Machine, addresses the controversy over American police brutality towards the African American community by imagining it as a one-on-one conflict between two individuals - the white cop and the black citizen.
"The film begins and it feels like they have been fighting for days, they’re exhausted, not a single punch is thrown, their violence is communicated through clumsy, raw emotion. They're people - complex, real people and, as such, the power had to shift between them at certain points throughout the story," he wrote. " For me, it was important to write a story that didn’t paint a simplistic portrait of the characters of the Cop and Kid. The director, AG Rojas, shared a message on the making of the video. The powerful video features an intense brawl between a white police officer and a black male that supports the opinions of El-P and Killer Mike, which they have been very vocal about in recent months. Run the Jewels are currently in the middle of their festival tour run, but they take a break from that today with the release of their new video for "Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)" featuring Zack De La Rocha.
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