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Kendrick Lamar and Terry Crews hit the quan in 8-minute ‘These Walls’ music video

Video is billed as a 'black comedy'

Christopher Hooton
Thursday 29 October 2015 13:53 GMT
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After doing an incredible job on the music video for ‘Alright’, Kendrick Lamar brought director Colin Tilley back for ‘These Walls’, another epic, narrative led video with stunning visuals.

It centres on a wild house party in the projects, which comedian Corey Holcomb tells in retrospect, explaining how Kendrick landed him in prison.

The highlight of the video however is an entirely unexpected cameo from Terry Crews, who appears to be staging a robbery with Kendrick only to end up dancing to iHeart Memphis’ 'Hit The Quan' with K-Dot at a low budget talent show.

Billed as ‘Behind The Walls: A black comedy’, the video comes with a ‘To be continued…’ at the close.

'These Walls' is the second single to be taken from Kendrick’s career-defining To Pimp A Butterfly album, following ‘Alright’, the video for which saw him flying through the streets of Compton before being shot down by a white police officer.

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