Must-Watch Music Videos: Kool & Kass Are The Fresh Princes Of Bel-Air

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Kool & Kass is the new collaboration from Kool A.D. (Das Racist) and Kassa Overall. Their new mixtape Peaceful Solutionsdropped last week along with two new videos for your eyeballs to ingest.

“Fresh Prince” highlights the group’s laid back, hook heavy delivery, which harkens back to the pair’s previous endeavors. Listen for a few seconds and you can tell this is easily themixtape of the spring. The duo have a way of infusing just the right amount of irony and comedy to keep it interesting, but they are most certainly not a joke, no matter the size of their comically large their grape-juice-filled wine glasses. (In fact I have it on good advice – from a friend, obviously – that massive wine glasses are more efficient than small ones.)

The video comes from the creative collective Eightsixfouth, an NYC based group that is quickly becoming responsible for some of the best new videos in the indie hip hop scene, like the one above and this passionate new video from Raheem Recess.

In juxtaposition, it’s clear that the overall direction of “Fresh Prince” must have just been “do your thang.” The video holds onto some of that “fresh 90’s flavor,” while being both an homage to our favorite rapper/Bel-Air resident and an absurdist comedy, riddled with clips reminiscent of Coolio.

Arshan Sadri is the Channel Manager at Brooklyn based, INDMUSIC, YouTube’s largest music Network. He got his start booking comedy and music at the University of Maryland. On weekends he refuses to travel above 14th street, likes to run, and plays in two bands that are just ok.

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