{"id":480569,"date":"2019-01-07T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=776042"},"modified":"2019-01-07T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:07:00","slug":"nas-releases-powerful-cops-shot-the-kid-video-featuring-a-slick-rick-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/nas-releases-powerful-cops-shot-the-kid-video-featuring-a-slick-rick-cameo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nas Releases Powerful \u201cCops Shot the Kid\u201d Video Featuring a Slick Rick Cameo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frenetic, intense and sobering, the \u201cCops Shot the Kid\u201d video depicts the realities of police brutality and the way it exerts itself on the black community. The visual begins with Nas<\/a> walking on a beach at sunset, as clips of police dogs barking, dead men lying in the street and piercing sirens fill the screen. The visual is bathed in sapphire and crimson hues that amplify the disturbing imagery. Narratively, the music video follows a loose structure that tracks various black men: one running from a mysterious figure down an alley and another getting slammed on the hood of a car at a gas station. Unsurprisingly, neither of them seem to make it, and both are killed by law enforcement.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fitting that Slick Rick<\/a> makes a cameo toward the end of the video. \u201cCops Shot the Kid\u201d is propelled by a sample of Slick Rick\u2019s 1988\u2019s \u201cChildren\u2019s Story\u201d and was one of the few standouts on the critically maligned\u00a0Nasir<\/em><\/a>. In a November interview with Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, Rick revealed that he wasn\u2019t making an intentional statement on police brutality when he created his groundbreaking song.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t concentrating on police brutality. That wasn\u2019t the direction I was going in,\u201d he said. \u201cThe basis of the story was just to be entertaining, gritty\u2026 It\u2019s like we trying to intrigue your peers with a story that should draw them in. It\u2019s almost like how Kevin Hart draws you in with his stories. Kevin Hart stories could be written in rap to you know? It\u2019s not a one-two joke. It\u2019s a longer procedure. It walks you to the joke for like about two to three minutes. Kevin Hart could take a joke and make it stretch into five minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Frenetic, intense and sobering, the \u201cCops Shot the Kid\u201d video depicts the realities of police brutality and the way it exerts itself on the black community. The visual begins with Nas walking on a beach at sunset, as clips of police dogs barking, dead men lying in the street and piercing sirens fill the screen. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 07:37:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}