Widespread and Pete Rock, who not too long ago dropped their album The Auditorium vol. 1, are again with some beautiful visuals for his or her monitor ‘Lucky’ off mentioned album.
The story pushed video is graded with a tinge of nostalgia, and captures tales from Chicago in a fashion that’s stuffed with gratitude. The monitor itself is one constructed round being grateful for locating luck, and matches the timeless motif of the album fairly effectively.
Widespread raps personally about his life, with metaphors you’d count on out of a seasoned emcee. You possibly can hear the expertise converse for itself as Widespread takes you down his reminiscence lane, the place he acknowledges the individuals he has had fortunate to have in his life. On the manufacturing facet, Pete Rock has made purposeful use of shimmering arpeggio based mostly melodies with a crisp drum break, which significantly provides to the file’s dreamlike high quality. All in all, it’s an expertise we should advocate.
Im lucky for my followers lol. You guys are superb and thanks a lot for embracing me & widespread’s undertaking. We havent felt this good in hip hop in a lil min lol. 🙏🏾😎
— PETEROCK.COM (@PeteRock) July 20, 2024
The video will place you in Southside Chicago, the place you’ll catch glimpses of individuals’s lives as they hug their family members, pray, mourn, rejoice and rejoice collectively. The video, and the tune, is finally an ode to life itself — to a beating a coronary heart and drums that knock, for Widespread himself and for Pete Rock.