HipHopDX Premiere – Ceschi and longtime collaborator Issue Chandelier have teamed up for the brand new monitor “Say No Extra,” the primary single from Ceschi’s upcoming Unhappy, Fats Luck album. In its accompanying video, the Pretend 4 Inc. co-founder strums his acoustic guitar as he morphs out and in an animated model himself.
Surrounded by the looming structure the attractive cathedrals, bridges and canals Amsterdam, Ceschi displays on two his mates’ present authorized woes and folks he’s misplaced to drug dependancy.
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“This video was shot throughout a time once I was deeply misplaced and had no thought the place I needed my life to go,” Ceschi tells HipHopDX. “After mates had been arrested and relationships had ended, I made a decision to journey with out a lot a motive. Artist Andy McAlpine organized a video shoot throughout a layover going from Norway to Czech Republic. What you’re seeing right here stems from that point interval.”
Within the YouTube caption, Ceschi dedicates — what he calls the “agnostic gospel track” — to his mates Bobby and Pepe “who’re going through a troublesome federal marijuana case proper now and all mates who’ve been imprisoned for risk-taking and to these we’ve misplaced alongside these alternate paths.
“This track was created from a cellular phone voice memo a guitar riff I wrote that Graham Issue Chandelier] then ‘sampled’ and fleshed out a track round.”
Ceschi, who served roughly 18 months in jail on expenses marijuana possession, is aware of all too nicely how the authorized system can severely penalize in any other case nice folks for marijuana-related expenses and has watched many his good friend lose their lives to dependancy.
His brutally trustworthy lyrics completely pepper Issue’s fantastically darkish manufacturing, permitting his feelings to pour by way of each syllable.
Watch the Andrew McAlpine-directed video above.