Inglewood’s best, D Smoke, has just released the layered, introspective video to go alongside with his new track, “Rapture.” Directed by the artistic mind at the rear of the visuals for tracks like “BMO” by Ari Lennox and more recently Massive Sean’s “More durable Than My Demons,” Baby, the black-and-white treatment “Rapture” receives captures the essence of the track completely.

Highlighting the evils that befall Black females and the absence of appreciation they obtain, D Smoke employs bars to weave a story that thoughts what would happen if the “new rapture” took them all absent. He then juxtaposes this sentiment by pondering the techniques in which Black guys can improved uplift Black ladies in a planet that constantly attempts to breaks them down, adding a further narrative layer by obtaining his mother and cousin Tiffany Gouché also featured in it. The information, coupled with the impactful online video, is each timely and tends to make for a terrific prelude to whichever the west coast rapper may possibly be cooking up for his subsequent project.

D Smoke has come a extended way considering the fact that becoming crowned the winner of Netflix’s Rhythm + Circulation. His debut project, Black Behaviors, was centered all around his upbringing in Inglewood, California, and how his environment and family members motivated the guy he is nowadays. His homecoming supplying also experienced extraordinary functions from the likes of Snoop Dogg, Jill Scott, and Ari Lennox among many others.