Jeremiah Jae - The Heat

What this video is

Released July 14, 2014, 'The Heat' arrives at a pivotal moment for Jeremiah Jae — a Chicago-bred rapper and producer signed to Warp Records, returning from a European tour supporting his Good Times mixtape. The video thematically engages with Chicago's summer violence cycle, a subject with particular urgency amid the city's mid-2010s public safety crisis. As a Brainfeeder associate and Warp Records artist, Jae…

Why it matters

Represents the 2010s underground hip-hop documentary-video tradition — low-budget, location-driven, anti-spectacle — as practiced by artists in the Brainfeeder/Warp orbit. The video's aggressive editorial pace (0.847s avg shot length) applied to vérité footage prefigures editing strategies later…

The director

Justin Staple is a filmmaker and video director based in the United States, known for producing content for VICE/Noisey alongside a music video practice. He first collaborated with Jeremiah Jae around 2010 and had directed six music videos and a short film…