White suits and white powder never go out of style, especially when it comes to rock and rap acts that need to quickly establish some dangerous cred. Although there's little difference in terms of the "coolness" between bad guys and good guys in the world of high stakes drug dealing — let's call it the dichotomy of Tony Montana and Crockett/Tubbs — singer Gabe Saporta and his Cobra Straship crew manage to subvert all that and seem way above all that hokum. You see, that's not coke he's cutting. It's cake flour (note: Ok, it's actually all purpose flour, but give me a little poetic license here). And, they're not literally cooking down some rock to sell to the hipsters; They're baking pies to throw in their faces. Now, if you'll allow me to carry the drug metaphor two steps too far: 1) This song is insanely catchy and probably as addictive as the ol' Glad Stuff t itself (note: No, I've never heard someone refer to cocaine as Glad Stuff either, but I found it on a list of coke nicknames and it seemed a more plausible term than Aunt Nora or Weasel Dust ). 2) As you could guess, there's also a sanitized version of this video. I suggest you go with this original, "uncut" one. (Get it? Uncut? Hello?) --> watch "The City Is At War" director's (un)cut Quicktime or via YouTube
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Cobra Starship "The City Is At War" (Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen)
Whitey McConnaughy, director/editor | Gina Bevilaqua, producer | Refused TV, production co | Jon Fordham, DP | Greencard Pictures , production service co
