ESSO - New York, New York (Video)

Aspiring MC ESSO brings forth the visuals for his Rena1ssance-produced ode to New York City. Helmed by Puma the visual has primarily been shot in Manhattan but projects the vibe of all five boroughs. On his website the young rapper explains his love for the Big Apple and his motivation behind “New York, New York”;

New York, New York big city of dreams, the city so nice they named it twice. The home of over 8 milllion stories. There have been so many different representations of New York over the years in films, music videos and photos that I finally felt like it was time for me to show the city in my own way. There’s something about New York that both natives and people that move here understand. There’s no other city in the world that exists on the scale of New York. You can literally feel swallowed up by the buildings as you walk down certain streets, or surrounded by them as you walk through Central Park. There are so many different angles that you see just walking through the city, different people dealing with different lifestyles on different levels all walking down the same block at the same time. This is the New York that I want to show, the iconic city that never sleeps, the Manhattan that Woody Allen saw in Black & White…the greatest city in the world.

The track can be found on the forthcoming The Anti-Socialite due April 26th.