Clipping – Blood of the Fang video

Clipping – Blood of the Fang

The “Blood of the Fang” video is inspired by a photo of Huey Newton — co-founder of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense — hand-cuffed to a hospital gurney while being treated for a gunshot wound in the abdomen after a gun battle with Oakland police in October 1967

The song itself is built around a sample from Sam Waymon’s score to the 1973 experimental vampire film ‘Ganja & Hess.’ Daveed Diggs’s lyrics conjure an alternate history of black political struggle in the 1960s and 70s, name-dropping radical activists and reimagining them as a pantheon of undead superheroes fighting against systems of oppression

Director: Lars Jan
Video Production House: Dalmatian Cow Productions
Editor: Lee Bacak
Director of Photography: Jeff Leed Cohn