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Rome Fortune Trips Out Fantastically in ‘Four Flats’ Video

Rome Fortune, "Four Flats," video

Rome Fortune isn’t abandoning the tracks he left off of last month’s muted, mournful Beautiful Pimp II mixtape (the sequel to SPIN’s #23 Best Hip-Hop Album of 2013). A sole producer, CitoOnTheBeat, helped craft that entire soul-baring set, so “Four Flats,” an Mideast-tinged C4 production that surfaced last fall, didn’t make the cut. But now the Atlanta rapper has shared a video, directed by Goldrush and edited by Glassface, that plays out like a visual riff on his repetition, “My mind is trippin’ / My mind is trippin’ / My mind is trippin’.” Hallucinogenic colors play across the screen, Rome raps in front of a graffiti-sprayed backdrop, and then it gets wild, as his face appears in vintage footage. He’s grinning for a reason.

Read SPIN’s interview with Rome Fortune.