"Recoil" - Notes to Self

Notes to Self is a name you can trust. Crazy talented rappers over unfuckwithable beats -- this is not a formula known for going wrong. We slept on this video, as we do with pretty much the entire fabric of "hip hop" as we hurtle towards certain death, it's getting posted because it came up today. Journalism, motherfucker, do you speak it?

The "Recoil" video is surprisingly tight, professional-looking cinema. This isn't a backhanded compliment about their nationality, occupations or taste in film: more an appreciation of the time and work involved. There's a lot of rap videos about heist-related criminal enterprise out there, but the attention to detail here was excessive. No such thing as Too Much Art.

Apparently it is not hard to shoot robbery scenes without a permit in Canada, although the cops did eventually show up to ask polite questions.