With a new smoother sound, featuring high strung guitar licks and trap claps, Harlemite Neek Bucks takes this newest track, “Beat The Odds,” (produced by Dizzy Banko, The Beat Menace and Andrew Meoray) to task over the problems that face the youth in any hood USA. The video, with Bucks as director, is set against the cold, rugged blocks of NYC. As various young men gather on a corner by the neighborhood bodega, there seems to be an ill wind in the air. One can only image what can quickly turn from a cool gathering to something totally tragic when dealing with misguided youngin’s and no one to cool hot heads. “I’m spending bucks with my team, but not livin’ right/My bro was only 16 when ni—s took his life/I’m steady fighting these demons, it’s a different fight/That’s why I sip on codeine to help me sleep at night,” Buck raps.
Shot by The Lost Footage visual creators, the scenes are raw elements of real time living among the constant threat of violence in a vicious cycle that seemingly never ends. To watch this video and not connect to it is hard, as we all either personally know situations depicted in this montage or have heard about them in the news. Regardless of the familiarity, the pain of losing those close to us over street violence never goes away. Shout to Bucks for bringing this glaring issue to the forefront.
To check out more of his music, hit up his Jay-Z inspired Streets Is Watching project at Neekbucks.com