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Run the Jewels Release 'Early' Music Video

05/18/2015
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(Radio.com) The best things in life are unexpected: for example, this new video from Run the Jewels, for the song "Early" off their last album Run the Jewels 2. It came without warning or press release: a shot of lightning in the dark, to strike fear into the heart of the system.

The song is an unapologetically frank first-person depiction of police brutality from Killer Mike's perspective. The video artfully illustrates the frightening scenario--about being arrested in front of his wife and kids--in animation, limited to a striking palette black, white and red.

We see the arrest occur, the cop towering over Mike's wife and kids as he watches, helpless, from the back seat of a cop car. Then the scene shifts to a global demonstration, a clear homage to the demonstrations that have swept the country in the wake of police brutality in Ferguson and beyond.

Run the Jewels have been particularly on point with their music videos during the Run the Jewels 2 cycle. The video for "Early" only continues that trend. Watch it here.

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