Ab-Soul goes soul-searching

Directed by Omar Jones through SixTwentySix, this raw and artistic music video accompanies the first track on American singer songwriter Ab-Soul's upcoming album. 

Do Better tells a tortured tale of depression and introspection through dark, descriptive lyrics of gods, galaxies, and crowns of thorns, accompanied by Jones’ equally moving, black and white film.  

Jones captures portraits of Ab-Soul as he grapples with self doubt and addresses his own inadequacies, paired with creatively shot imagery of crows, children, gloomy skies and telephone pylons. 

The film is interspersed with hard-to-watch, slow motion scenes of the rapper falling from a tall building on replay, then laying still on the pavement as black blood trickles down the curb, representing his perpetual internal battle between self-destruction and self-improvement.