Lt Headtrip Returns with Bone-chilling Gary Blake-directed "Three Dollar Watch" Video & Exclusive ialive Remix (The Witzard Premiere)
Since unveiling his latest album,
Comedy of The Filthbeast
, right here at
earlier this year,
New York
rapper-producer
Lt Headtrip
has let loose a series of bone-chilling video accompaniment including
"Father, Father,"
"Neck Right,"
and lest we forget, his 40-minute full-album stream. Now,
Lt Headtrip
has returned to
The Witzard
to premier
Comedy of The Filthbeast
's next music video treatment,
"Three Dollar Watch."
Headtrip
and his creative cohorts fittingly describe
"Three Dollar Watch"
as "[within] the third video from
Lt Headtrip
's self-produced album,
Comedy of The Filthbeast
, director
Gary Blake
captures the tension between a caged snake and its unguarded prey, set to a song about a naive young girl's relationship with her abusive father figures."
"Three Dollar Watch"
consists of rather chilling footage of a snake stalking his dinner (a little white mouse) filmed by Blake a few years ago and more recently, edited down and retro-fitted to accompany
Lt Headtrip
's equally chilling tale; together, amassing a very unique take on one of
strongest tracks and a presentation of truly original piece of art. Also, to accompany
"Three Dollar Watch," Lt Headtrip
has provided
The Witzard
with an exclusive remix composed by
The Hell Hole Store & TIMEWAVE ZERO
rapper-producer
Donovan ialive
. As you might expect,
ialive
adds a whole new dimension to
"Three Dollar Watch"
with a skeletal, ominous take on
Headtrip
's emotional narrative.
"Three Dollar Watch"
is the second
Comedy of The Filthbeast
track to be remixed in recent months, preceded by
Raisi K.
's
flip. If you dig what you hear here, I suggest you stay tuned, as
Lt Headtrip & The Karma Kids
have a number of projects currently in-the-works... most of which, aren't fully ready to be announced just yet. I can, however, tell you there are more
Comedy of The Filthbeast
videos coming relatively soon, as well as "a cross-label collaborative album curated by
Headtrip
and
Backwoodz Studioz
engineer,
Willie Green
" called
LNYCHPIN
.
LNYCHPIN
's full-length will showcase 16 hand-selected emcees and seven producers affiliated with
The Karma Kids
, Reservoir Sound,
Backwoodz Studioz
, Uncommon Records, and
Smoker’s Cough
. Not only will
LNYCHPIN
be released digitally Friday, December 8th, but the whole
NYC
super-crew will perform the album at
the following night, Saturday, December 9th from 9:00pm-1:00am;
The Karma Kids
, PremRock,
Teddy Faley
, Reservoir Sound System—consisting of
A.M. Breakups, Warren S. Britt, Hype Wonder, SKECH185
, and more—will perform with special guest appearances from
LNYCHPIN
affiliates
BIG BREAKFAST
, billy woods,
Blastmaster Baker
, DJ Zesto Q, and a few special top-secret guests. Tickets are currently available for just $8.00! I'll just let
Mr. Headtrip
take it from here and explain the rest...
"This song isn't about me, so I didn't find it appropriate to shoot a performance video. Gary Blake, who I've worked with in the past, has an incredible imagination and keeps a fine-focused lens on the world around him. I shared the initial mixes of this album with him and talked music videos for several songs, so we threw some ideas around for "Three Dollar Watch" and this footage arose. The parallel between the young girls' relationship with her father figures and the captive animals immediately stood out to us and the idea stuck. I reached out to Colin Williams, the artist whose hand scripted my album's lettering, for the titles to complete the project.
The subject of the song is very close to me and I wanted to paint the scenario properly. I began writing this seven years ago, after learning about Sara's grandfather and spending time with her grandmother, who raised her. A couple years later, we met her father, who she hadn't seen in person, since she was very young and the rest of the song wrote itself; I took the other verse and hook directly from dialogue during the weekend we spent together.
It took me over a dozen tries to to get the production on this track correct. I wanted to evoke an emotional response from the song's subject and every version I finished, left her underwhelmed. Eventually, I enlisted some outside help; Duncecap gave me the idea to slow the drum pattern down during the verses and Jeff Markey lent me his synth skills for the main melody, which I arranged afterward. When I showed her this version, she was taken aback and still has trouble listening to it without getting emotional. Only at this point, did I feel that I had done her story justice."
- Lt Headtrip (The Karma Kids)
