{"id":87805,"date":"2015-03-26T19:10:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=87805"},"modified":"2015-03-26T19:10:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:10:26","slug":"video-run-the-jewels-ft-zack-de-la-rocha-close-your-eyes-and-count-to-fuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-run-the-jewels-ft-zack-de-la-rocha-close-your-eyes-and-count-to-fuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Run The Jewels ft. Zack de la Rocha &#8211; Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PkGwI7nGehA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When Run The Jewels sent me this track, I knew we had the opportunity to create a film that means something. I felt a sense of responsibility to do just that. We had to exploit the lyrics and aggression and emotion of the track, and translate that into a film that would ignite a valuable and productive conversation about racially motivated violence in this country. It&#8217;s provocative, and we all knew this, so we were tasked with making something that expressed the intensity of senseless violence without eclipsing our humanity. For me, it was important to write a story that didn\u2019t paint a simplistic portrait of the characters of the Cop and Kid. They&#8217;re not stereotypes. They&#8217;re people &#8211; complex, real people and, as such, the power had to shift between them at certain points throughout the story. The film begins and it feels like they have been fighting for days, they\u2019re exhausted, not a single punch is thrown, their violence is communicated through clumsy, raw emotion. They&#8217;ve already fought their way past their judgments and learned hatred toward one another. 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