Billed as a Short Film, "We Cry Together" goes even beyond that: It's essentially a filmed piece of live theater. Kendrick Lamar and Taylour Paige go back and forth at each other as the camera roves around them, capturing the raw conversational rap and the even more NSFW ending.
This shit may be hard, but Kendrick Lamar continues to make it look easy with another tight track and a video filled with unexpected imagery at every turn.
From a palm tree performance perch to a comically busy trading floor to the barbershop and rooftop to rooftop and a busy intersection: Kendrick Lamar and crew deliver another idiosyncratic winner.
A relationship that has Kendrick and Rihanna living on the edge, sometimes literally, as the precipice of death and destruction comes dangerously close again and again.
A powerful succession of images that showcase the raging battle over whether one violently fights back against brutality and the desire to rise above it all.