PAPER TIGER ＂2ND DAY BACK＂ MUSIC VIDEO - PAPER TIGER ＂2ND DAY BACK＂ MUSIC VIDEO

What this video is

Released in 2010 as a companion to Paper Tiger's debut solo album Made Like Us on Doomtree Records, '2nd Day Back' represents the Minneapolis indie hip-hop underground at a pivotal moment — when producers from collective-based crews were asserting authorship with instrumental solo records distributed through early Bandcamp infrastructure. Paper Tiger (John Samels), a founding member of Doomtree and the collective's…

Why it matters

Landmark example of early-2010s instrumental hip-hop music video practice — a genre where the absence of a rapper foregrounded abstract or concept-driven visuals. Situates Paper Tiger within the lineage of DJ Shadow-influenced beat-auteurs who leveraged the producer-as-artist model to build solo…