Smoke DZA – “Gotham Fucking City” (Feat. Joey Bada$$)

On last year’s K.O.N.Y. mixtape, the well-connected Harlem rapper Smoke DZA linked with the young Brooklyn boom-bap fundamentalist Joey Bada$$ to go all dead-eyed over a mournful old J Dilla beat. And in director A.V. Rockwell‘s new video for the song, we see an inky black-and-white image of the city both guys call home. Nothing good happens to anyone in the video, and considering the recent death of Joey’s friend Capital Steez, its ending has an uncomfortable real-life connection.