10 Must See Videos By New York Area Hip Hop Artists [September 2011]

Talib Kweli, Jean Grae “Uh Oh” [Extended Version]

Directed by Stephen Mallet

Hip hop veteran Talib Kweli teams up with Jean Grae (one of our “5 Reasons Why New York Hip Hop Doesn’t Suck”) for the visual to “Uh Oh,” from Kweli’s Gutter Rainbows LP, released earlier this year. The video, a rugged story of corporate-level thuggery attained a more cinematic flair with the extended version, which helped viewers comprehend the shorter version’s slightly spastic plotline. In any event, the occasionally-hermitlike Jean Grae has been re-emerging of late, and we enjoy her contributions to the track as well as the video. Grae and Kweli’s collaborations, seeing these two rock back at SXSW detail the creative camaraderie between the two that we’ll hopefully see more of in the future. Do check Talib Kweli’s Gutter Rainbows and Jean Grae’s latest mixtape, Cookies or Comas.