Run The Jewels Debut “Ooh LA LA” Video

Run The Jewels have shared the music video for their new single "Ooh LA LA"
Run The Jewels photo by Timothy Saccenti

Run The Jewels have shared the music video for their new single “Ooh LA LA” (feat. Greg Nice & DJ Premier). The video was filmed early March, just prior to the impact of Covid-19. Featuring cameos by hip hop legends Greg Nice, DJ Premier, Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha, a legion of dancers, a fleet of hot air balloons, and a mountain of burning money. The track is off the duo’s RTJ4 album, out soon.

“We shot this video only a few weeks before the pandemic hit with no clue as to what the future held. the fact that we got the chance to do it is damn near miraculous in hindsight,” state the duo. “In conceptualizing the video with our friends Brian and Vanessa Beletic we imagined the world on the day that the age old struggle of class was finally over. A day that humanity, empathy, and community were victorious over the forces that would separate us based on arbitrary systems created by man. This video is a fantasy of waking up on a day that there is no monetary system, no dividing line, no false construct to tell our fellow man that they are less or more than anyone else. Not that people are without but that the whole meaning of money has vanished. That we have somehow solved our self created caste system and can now start fresh with love, hope and celebration. It’s a dream of humanity’s V-DAY… and the party we know would pop off.”

In the wake of Covid-19, the group have also been sharing weekly free downloadable activity & coloring books, and just last week released an exclusive new line of t-shirts as a fundraiser for their tour crew, who are out of work until the duo’s postponed world tour with Rage Against the Machine gets underway.

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