Last year, Vince Staples bucked tradition by making his Def Jam debut album, Summertime '06, a double-disc affair. The move worked: it was met with critical acclaim, and it launched the Long Beach rapper from the fringe of rap's A-list fully onto its marquee. Though other records, like Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly, were more noted for their approaches to issues regarding race in America, Summertime is itself a tangled take on the way Black celebrities are forced to interact with white fan bases and corporate concerns. Perhaps no song on the record better encapsulates those anxieties than its opener, "Lift Me Up." Today (Jan. 29), that track gets the video treatment, courtesy of directors David Helman and Dustin Lane.

The clip sees Vince floating through (and occasionally above) his home town of Long Beach, Calif. "Lift Me Up" is notable for its unflinching attitude toward Vince's internal struggles ("Man, I need to fight the power but I need that new Ferrari"), and the video translates some of that to the screen, where the tensions presented by his environment threaten to rip him apart at any second. "Lift Me Up" joins a long line of impressive videos from the young rapper, including his clips for "Blue Suede," "Screen Door" and "Senorita."

Staples recently appeared on ESPN's Highly Questionable, where he revealed that he briefly attended the same high school as Cam Newtown, the Atlanta-born quarterback of the Carolina Panthers. Newton takes on Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos a week from Sunday (Feb. 7) in Super Bowl 50.

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