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Live Review: WATCH: Kendrick Lamar 'Collect Calls' Unofficial H5C Video

16 January 2013 | 3:00 pm | Rebecca McCann

The unofficial High5Collective video contains images of stained glass windows and a grim backdrop for KENDRICK LAMAR's anxious rap on 'Collect Calls'.

The good peeps at High5Collective have brought us an unoffical video for KENDRICK LAMAR's 'Collect Calls', and it's a gritty urban tale painted in a stark grey palette.

[PICTURED ABOVE, KENDRICK LAMAR AT MELBOURNE'S PALACE THEATRE DEC 21st]

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Images of stained glass windows in a gothic church provide a grim backdrop for KENDRICK's anxious rap on 'Collect Calls'.

A tense atmosphere and pervading sense of danger permeates the High5Collective video, as hooded youths get mixed up in drug dealing and make desperate calls from phone booths.

The lyrics juxtapose the redemptive power of prayer and religion with a downward spiral towards perpetual crime and poverty.

An older narrator insists the troubled protagonists "need water - holy water", before the drama unfolds in a series of disjointed and desperate events.

Words by Rebecca McCann