Masta Ace premieres a new video for the song “Young Black Intelligent.” Directed by Parris, the song gets a powerful visual treatment of two inner city youths at a important cross-road in their lives. As the song portrays the two friends just want to enjoy their teens without succumbing to the perils of the “hood,” but the “hood” doesn’t make that easy!
Produced by Kic Beats and featuring chorus vocals from Pav Bundy, horns from the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and a spoken word section from Chuck D, the song is taken from Masta Ace’s recently released album The Falling Season.
A concept piece, the album is framed around Masta Ace’s years at Sheepshead Bay High School in Brooklyn in the early 80’s. “Young Black Intelligent” was the first song he wrote for the album and was “in a nutshell about my life at the age of 14 growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the projects.” At that age the choices he and some of his childhood friends made ended up defining their entire lives. As he relates about some of those friends “right now guys are just getting home from 20, 25, 30 year bids because when I went away to college a bunch of them went away to jail.”
