![]() The album is structured around the contrast shown in the “Taco” video, capturing fleeting moments between flights from “Southeast to Paris” and “Paris to Southeast,” the two interludes on the eight-track, 18-minute EP. Tying together the scene is a groovy, upbeat instrumental that keeps the video in motion, through IDK’s dance moves and the quick cuts of the editing. Looking like he didn’t change after his last European shopping spree, he sports a trench coat, combat boots, and a colorful print scarf tied around his head as men with blurred faces and flexing automatic weapons cut in and out of the background. IDK’s outfit only adds to the contrast of the video. The music video for “Taco”-the debut single off the EP-is set in Simple City and shot almost entirely in black-and-white. neighborhood and shows that life there is anything but Simple. ![]() His latest project, a joint EP with DJ/producer Kaytranada, pays homage to the D.C. Growing up a half-mile over the Maryland border, rapper IDK became childhood friends with a boy from the projects, and as his rap career opened up a world of new possibilities to him, he also sought to open doors for his friend. shouted out by local go-go artists and once recognized as one of the most active sites of gang violence in the country. “Simple City” is the name locals gave to Benning Terrace, a housing project in southeast D.C.
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