Since linking up with Hit Boy, Nas has been in rare form. The run continues with new visuals for “Ugly” off the Queensbridge legend’s surprise late 2021 Magic EP. The black and white video finds clips the rapper cruising through NYC streets interspersed with quick jumps to imagery from Nas’s vivid lines:
It’s ugly outside, it’s muggy, it’s money outside
105 Fahrenheit thunderous skies
The clouds shape a clown face above where you reside
Under his eye, a teardrop got the ugliest cry
They call my city Gotham City, opposite of pretty
Weatherman cannot predict bullets rainin’ from out the 50
It’s ugly outside, Big L would be here if it wasn’t
Hell will freeze over the day it doesn’t get ugly out
The video drop coincides with Mass Appeal’s release of the Magic merch store. The EP is available now on your favorite DSP.
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