7L & ESOTERIC ＂RETROSPECTS＂ OFFICAL VIDEO FROM ALBUM 1212! - 7L & ESOTERIC ＂RETROSPECTS＂ OFFICAL VIDEO FROM ALBUM 1212!
What this video is
Released in November 2010 alongside 7L & Esoteric's fifth studio album 1212 (Fly Casual Records, October 12, 2010), 'Retrospects' arrived during a sustained underground hip hop renaissance driven by boom bap loyalists rejecting mainstream rap's increasingly pop-oriented production. The Boston duo — prominent in collectives Army of the Pharaohs and Demigodz — used the video to signal a cinematic maturity rarely seen…
Why it matters
A landmark in underground hip hop video production circa 2010, 'Retrospects' challenged the genre's visual conventions by replacing performance bravado with a grounded crime-film narrative. Its collaboration with directors from the metal/hardcore world and its raw, realist cinematography…
The director
Mike Pecci is an award-winning filmmaker and commercial director classically trained as a silent film director and cinematographer in New York. He co-founded the production company McFarland & Pecci alongside Ian McFarland, directing over 30 music videos for…
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