Bobby Sessions - Like Me

What this video is

Released April 2018 as Bobby Sessions' debut single for Def Jam Recordings, 'Like Me' arrives at the height of the national reckoning over police violence against Black Americans — post-Ferguson, post-Philando Castile, mid-Kaepernick controversy. The video's central imagery of Sessions standing beneath a tree with a noose deliberately connects 21st-century police killings to the history of lynching in America.…

Why it matters

A landmark entry in the conscious hip-hop canon of the late 2010s, 'Like Me' represents the mainstream breakthrough of Southern activist rap. Praised by NPR, Pitchfork, and Complex on release, it demonstrates how Def Jam's 2018 signing strategy targeted politically galvanized voices, and how DFW's…

The director

Jeremy Biggers is a Dallas-born award-winning multidisciplinary creator — painter, muralist, photographer, and filmmaker — who attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Dubbed 'Dallas' Hardest Working Multi-Hyphenate' by D…