To create the official music video for the song "The Hate Is Real," Body Count launched a challenge to their fans. The band asked their audience to submit their own versions of what the song's visuals should look like, and on Tuesday the 23rd, the winner was announced.
The chosen video was made by filmmaker Seby Martinez , who lives in New York. Martinez created a production entirely composed of puppets, including representations of the band members and their musical instruments. Maintaining the aesthetics of a music video, with camera cuts and a diversity of images, the filmmaker interspersed an original narrative, created with his own characters, with shots of the band's puppets in a performance. You can see the impressive result at the end of this post.
According to the website Blabbermouth , vocalist Ice-T reportedly told Metal Hammer a bit about the inspiration behind “The Hate Is Real.” “One day I heard Jim Jones from Dipset say, ‘Love is fake, but hate is real.’ I said, ‘That would make a good song, because I believe that when people say they love you, it can be a figure of speech.’ Like, ‘Hey, man, I love this guy.’ But when someone hates you, they really hate you. Hate is fucking real. Whether it’s racial hate, religious hate, whatever it is, it divides us,” he recounted.
“The Hate Is Real” can be found on Body Count’s latest album, Carnivore . Some of the names featured in collaborations on the album include Amy Lee (Evanescence), Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed), Riley Gale (Power Trip) , and Dave Lombardo (ex- Slayer).
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