Idle Warship “Steady”
The never-ending reports concerning our current nightmare of an economy got you down this holiday season? Well, here’s something that might lift those spirits a bit. After spending most of the year watering the mouths of music fans with a handful of individual cuts and accompanying live dates, Idle Warship, the alt-urban side-project featuring Talib Kweli, Res and, now, Canadian singer/ rapper Graph Nobel, have plans to drop a mixtape set sometime soon.
The first taste off that project is “Steady”, a “fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be” cautionary built on a Paisley Park hand-clap shuffle and the still-spine-tingling synth-paranoia of 80′s New Wave staple “Sunglasses At Night”. Pulling back the curtains behind the paparazzo flashes and big buck bank accounts, Idle reveal a far less glitzy wasteland filled with the trampled-on and soul-sapped. “I didn’t know the game/ I just knew I could play/ You build me up like a team/ I represented the dream,” Res reflects on her naive industry beginnings, but after veering thisclose to losing herself while in dogged pursuit of the glamorous life, she quickly revamps her life plan: “I got to fight for my name/…No more doin’ what you say”.
In addition, there’s the haunting distant cries of “Murder”, a half-singing Talib inquiring “Is it the sex or the drugs?/ Which poison you choose?” and Graph running down a mocking list of random celeb-isms while shouting out her crew and declaring, “Yeah I said it, I’m avant-garde!!”.
Another stand-out creation from this increasingly on-fire trio.
Peep the video for Idle’s ultra-sexy “Black Snake Moan” below:
Idle Warship “Black Snake Moan” from The ICU on Vimeo.
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