Anik Khan Things Get Trippy in “Mantra” Video

Anik Khan drops the video for "Mantra," featured on his I Don't Know Yet EP. The first 10 seconds of the cut will look very familiar to you. The clip is from the 1988 classic film, Coming to America and it's the scene where Prince Akeem and Semmi decide to travel to Queens. The Khan and Jordan Riggs-co-directed video then switches to the rapper standing in front of a projector while he raps. The Queens native spits clever bars, but it's worth mentioning that he can also hold a note.

Anik uses the track's hook to show off his vocal skills, candidly crooning, "I'ma get this money with the home team/Straight like that/All that ever mattered was the family/Straight like that/Only making love to my baby/Straight like that/It's either love you or it's fuck you/Straight like that." Anik reps Queens and his Bengali culture to the fullest, which is evident from the lyrics and the video. "For me, 'Mantra' is about what I value most in life, the people I love, and doing right by the culture that raised me," he said about the song. "And by culture I don't just mean rap music or my foreign origins; I mean hip hop, Queens, and my Bengali heritage all in one." Watch out the "Mantra" video above and check out our profile of him on The Break.