Rapper and actor Riz MC AKA Riz Ahmed has released a new single, ‘Mogambo‘, with accompanying visual.
The new track follows on from his critically acclaimed 2016 mixtape, Englistan, and sees him clap back at those who “wanna kill us“. ‘Mogambo‘ draws inspiration from the super villain in the 1987 classic Bollywood flick, Mr. India, and sees Riz confronting the rising call to wipe out marginalised groups like a “cockroach”. Watch the video below.
The video was directed by New York-based filmmaker Bassam Tariq in Pakistan, who describes:
“Our initial idea was a glamorized and intentionally composed video that challenged ideas of masculinity but after looking back at footage Riz and I shot in Pakistan, we realized that there is a raw energy that we can never recreate. So we decided to make the footage work and embrace the pedestrian nature of it. It’s tough for my ego to put something out that feels rough around the edges but throughout the edit the footage kept telling me that we are enough to keep viewers interested. We don’t need to be flashy to have people like us. We are perfectly imperfect – shaky compositions and soft focus and all.”
