{"id":2447451,"date":"2019-08-12T16:11:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T22:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=870837"},"modified":"2019-08-12T16:11:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T22:11:42","slug":"watch-j-cole-earthgang-smino-saba-team-for-emotional-sacrifices-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-j-cole-earthgang-smino-saba-team-for-emotional-sacrifices-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch J. Cole, EarthGang, Smino, Saba Team for Emotional \u2018Sacrifices\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sacrifices-dreamville.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Dreamville Records released the emotional video for \u201cSacrifices\u201d on Monday, featuring label artists J. Cole and Olu (EarthGang) alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/smino\/\" id=\"auto-tag_smino\" data-tag=\"smino\">Smino<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saba\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saba\" data-tag=\"saba\">Saba<\/a>. The clip is dedicated to Olu\u2019s late father and features an appearance from the rapper\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>The Scott Lazer, David Peters and Chad Tennies-directed video shows the four artists laying out the various individual and collective sacrifices they have made, both personal and political. The six-minute clip spans everything from police shooting unarmed black men to romantic dedication, with all sacrifices great and small in between.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSacrifices\u201d is the final track on Dreamville\u2019s latest compilation, <em>Revenge of the Dreamers III<\/em>, which was released in July and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rs-charts-top-200-albums-j-cole-dreamville-858991\/\">debuted atop<\/a> the <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> Top 200 Albums chart. J. Cole founded Dreamville in 2007 and the label\u2019s first two compilations were released in 2014 and 2015. J. Cole\u2019s last solo record, <em>KOD<\/em>, arrived last April, while he recently appeared alongside&nbsp;Ty Dolla $ign in the latter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ty-dolla-sign-j-cole-purple-emoji-video-841323\/\">\u201cPurple Emoji\u201d video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Smino and Saba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/noname-sabo-sminos-ace-performance-fallon-775867\/\">both appeared<\/a> with Chicago-based rapper Noname on <em>The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon<\/em> for a performance of \u201cAce,\u201d from Noname\u2019s debut album&nbsp;<em>Room 25.&nbsp;<\/em>Meanwhile, Olu\u2019s EarthGang will release their new album, <em>Mirrorland<\/em>, later this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/j-cole-earthgang-smino-saba-sacrifices-video-870837\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreamville Records released the emotional video for \u201cSacrifices\u201d on Monday, featuring label artists J. Cole and Olu (EarthGang) alongside Smino and Saba. The clip is dedicated to Olu\u2019s late father and features an appearance from the rapper\u2019s mother. The Scott Lazer, David Peters and Chad Tennies-directed video shows the four artists laying out the various [&hellip;]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 03:38:19","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}