Key Takeaways:

• Clipse’s “The Birds Don’t Sing” music video revisits their childhood dwelling, providing a heartfelt tribute to their late mother and father.
• John Legend and Voices of Fire deliver gospel resonance to the observe’s emotional core.
• The track displays Malice’s religious journey and the themes of redemption in Let God Sort Em Out.

Clipse’s extremely anticipated music video for “The Birds Don’t Sing” is lastly right here. On Tuesday (Sept. 30), the brother duo — Pusha T and Malice — paid tribute to their late mother and father by revisiting their household dwelling in Virginia Beach.

Directed by Brendan O’Connor, the shifting visible opens with Pusha T serving to his son, Nigel (or “Nige,” as talked about within the track), put flowers at his grandparents’ grave. Moments later, the It’s Almost Dry artist mirrored on the lack of his mom, Mildred Thornton, within the highly effective opening verse: “Lost in emotion, mama’s youngest / Trynna navigate life without my compass.”

Throughout the visible, the digicam pans throughout household photographs and pictures of the duo’s mother and father. Malice then takes over on the second verse, which he devoted to their father, Gene Elliott Thornton Sr.

“The way you missed Mama, I guess I should’ve known / Chivalry ain’t dead, you ain’t let her go alone,” Malice spits, referencing their dad passing away simply months after their mom. Later, he raps, “I can hear your voice now, I can feel your presence / Askin’ ‘Should I rap again?,’ you gave me your blessing.”

Reflecting on that particular bar in a dialog with Vulture, Malice defined, “That meant so much to me because over the years, the Clipse years, our family really went through a lot. For him to give me his blessing, him being a deacon in the church and loving God, I had to open my eyes and reevaluate.”

“The Birds Don’t Sing” is fingers down one in every of Clipse’s most private songs up to now, with its weight solely magnified by John Legend on the refrain and Stevie Wonder lending his voice to the outro.

For followers who already benefit from the Let God Sort Em Out reduce on streaming, it sounds even higher stay. Clipse carried out the track on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in July and once more earlier this month at the Vatican.