Cop vs. Kid: Watch RTJ's Video for 'Close Your Eyes (& Count to Fuck)'
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Run the Jewels just released a chilling political allegory of a video for their standout track “Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck),” which features Rage Against the Machine’s Zack de la Rocha on the hook and the last verse. Shot in black and white, the video is black versus white: a cop and a kid, fighting and mourning and giving up and then fighting again—almost amnesiacs in a bloody personal conflict they seem to have born into, fully formed, and which will take them to the grave. The larger parallels are obvious, and they’re also beautifully, shakily, heartbreakingly and almost quietly drawn here—like in the moment when the kid breaks into a house and pours milk all over his eyes, startlingly white against his skin.