With NY Network from his album 432Hz, uncle Rockin ‘Squat takes us to the foot of the skyscrapers–New York skies, in a clip that smells of the 80s / 90s. Graffiti, Break–Dance, DJing, this ultra exotic video is filled with references and symbols, a real trip to the land of Hip–Hop.
In the town of Sinatra, I wrote my name. When I didn’t have a single hair on my chin yet
His–same resident New–Yorker for a long period of his life, Rockin Squat here gives his audience his own take on NYC. He describes the city by its culture and obviously, by its music. Tracing the history of hip–hop new–Yorker, Mathias Cassel of his real name also tells us his own story, that of a young Frenchie who landed in the Big Apple in the mid-1980s.
Pay homage and have fun with the symbols
While the MC of the Assassin group cut out a sample of James Brown and tell us about his rican epic, a veritable deluge of references and anecdotes floods the screen. Cinema, music, clothes, shows etc.... Everything is good to remind how NYC is a concentrate of hip–hop.
From the cover ofIllmatic from In to the one of King of Rock from Run–RCD, Squat has fun with the codes of his culture that he knows inside out. Moreover the author of Serious in our business also makes a beautiful tribute to French rap by taking back the cover of Midnight Marauders of the group A Tribe Called Quest in replacing the heads of American MCs of the time with those of current French rappers for the cover of this single.
The clip ends with a tribute to DJ Duke. This big friend of Rockin Squat and legendary DJ of the assassin group left us early November 2020 and obviously, Squat wanted to pay him a last tribute. Just 50 years, the MC stays serious about his business, and the way he talks to his brothers.
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