“Fou Lee,” the first actual music video from Blue Scholars’ Cinemetropolis (“Slick Watts” was more of a short film than it was a music video) was posted online today.
The clip, which was directed and edited by Canh Nguyen and Jason Hakala, is a tribute to the song’s namesake with the Scholars shopping around Fou Lee for the ingredients to make chicken adobo. You can make your own shopping list for a trip to Fou Lee at the end of the video thanks to an ingredients list that rolls after the credits.
Blue Scholars MC Geologic said the song was “inspired by shopping trips we made to that grocery store when we lived in the heart of Beacon Hill, from 2004 to 2008.”
“We had house parties during recording sessions for The Long March and Bayani during that time, made a lot of coffee runs, had a lot of meetings, and the meals we shared were usually cooked with ingredients bought at our favorite Vietnamese-owned Philippine grocery store, where the staff greets you in Tagalog spoken with thick Vietnamese accents. This song uses food as an analogy for who we are – a mash-up of ingredients, chopped up and thrown onto a fire made from memory instead of recipe.”
Cinemetropolis was supposed to be released tomorrow, but due to demand the Blue Scholars released it a few weeks early so you can go head and download the record now. Geo and Sabzi celebrate the release of the record Friday and Saturday night with two shows at Neumos($15, 9 p.m.)
