Jadakiss - Huntin Season ft. Pusha T

What this video is

Released March 12, 2020 — days before COVID-19 lockdowns reshaped American public life — 'Huntin Season' arrives as a statement of lyrical durability from two post-40 East Coast veterans. The track and video explicitly position Jadakiss and Pusha T as adversaries of clout-driven, social-media-era rap, framing lyricism itself as an act of predation on lesser MCs. The video's release was meaningfully shaped by the…

Why it matters

Represents a late-career prestige moment in East Coast lyricism, with 'Huntin Season' functioning as a generational gauntlet thrown at trap and mumble rap aesthetics. The video's gothic theatricality and hunting metaphor draw from a long tradition of rap battle-as-warfare visual rhetoric, updated…

The director

Trey Lyons is a music video director based in Los Angeles who began his career as an editor for commercials and music videos before transitioning to directing. He directed his first music video in 2018 and quickly built a diverse roster of credits with…