It'll be a few more days before we get to fully grasp the Roots' upcoming 11th studio effort, …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin, but the long-running rap team are giving us an idea of what to expect via a new animated video for the gospel organ-heavy single "Understand."
None of the band make an appearance in the video, instead putting the focus on a phantom-powered organ rippling out the soul-stirring hook sans-hands. Helping sing the song is a constantly morphing head on a spit, while the star of the clip may well be a folded-up Benjamin Franklin figure trying to evade the cops.
All of this takes place as Black Thought storytelling delivers lines about Madame Tussauds wax museum, covertly hiding funds in a box, and being tossed in a police cruiser for running that drug game.
As previously reported, …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin arrives May 20.
None of the band make an appearance in the video, instead putting the focus on a phantom-powered organ rippling out the soul-stirring hook sans-hands. Helping sing the song is a constantly morphing head on a spit, while the star of the clip may well be a folded-up Benjamin Franklin figure trying to evade the cops.
All of this takes place as Black Thought storytelling delivers lines about Madame Tussauds wax museum, covertly hiding funds in a box, and being tossed in a police cruiser for running that drug game.
As previously reported, …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin arrives May 20.