Quelle Chris Animates Music Video for The Alchemist-produced "Iron Steel Samurai" from Bushido Label-wide Comp. (Mello Music Group)
"Me & my friend @quellechrist got one for @mellomusicgroup compilation called Bushido. Animation by Quelle [Chris] 🔮" Alchemist (@alanthechemist) posted on Instagram Wednesday afternoon. Alchemist has been on quite a roll lately, having produced the entirety of billy woods & E L U C I D's latest beloved album, Haram, as Armand Hammer and his own Carry The Fire EP this year. Last year alone, The Alchemist released full-length projects with Boldy James, Freddie Gibbs, and Conway The Machine, as well as his own The Food Villain and A Doctor, A Painter & An Alchemist Walk Into A Bar all on his own ALC Records. While they have yet to release a full-length project together (but fingers crossed!) it appears as though Quelle Chris & The Alchemist have been friends or, at least, acquaintances since about 2013.
Alchemist appears on Quelle Chris-produced "PRX" alongside Guilty Simpson from 2013 album, Ghost At The Finish Line. Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often (2017) again, featured Alchemist production on album closer "Pendulum Swing," this time, accompanied by a Homeboy Sandman guest appearance. Aside from his own albums, Quelle Chris has appeared on a couple more Alchemist beats on other people's albums: "Chiney Brush" from Mach-Hommy's 2019 EP, Wap Konn Jòj! and "Chicharonnes" from Armand Hammer's aforementioned Haram. Quelle Chris & The Alchemist's latest concoction, "Iron Steel Samurai" will be featured across Mello Music Group's forthcoming label-wide compilation album, Bushido.
To help commemorate the occasion, Quelle Chris animated his own music video for "Iron Steel Samurai" taking stylistic cues from age-old East Asian works of art. Quelle often incorporates characters akin to himself within the slightly NSFW "Iron Steel Samurai" video, which perfectly accompanies Alchemist's dusty beat-scape. Quelle has previously animated a handful of his own music videos, as well as clips for DJ Preservation, Cohenbeats, Jean Grae, Dillon & Batsauce, Chris Keys, and Mr. Nick Davio & Chauncey Alexander Davis-Mauney. Quelle Chris even particupated within a recent installment of Consequence of Sound's recurring Origins column to help explain his inspirations behind the creation of "Iron Steel Samurai" and its animated video. Mello Music Group's Bushido comp. will become available tomorrow, April 2, 2021, otherwise known as Bandcamp Friday.