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Daye Jack's Video For 'Lady Villain' Is A Coincidental Companion Piece To 'Get Out'

Try to recognize the signs — race and relationships get a horrific send-up in this video that mirrors the recent hit social thriller Get Out.
Daye Jack's video for "Lady Villain."

Worry not, if you have yet to see Get Out — the blockbuster social thriller by Jordan Peele that deconstructs America's racist monstrosity in horrific detail — Daye Jack's new video for the single "Lady Villain" contains no spoilers, despite their strikingly parallel themes.

Jack, a metro Atlanta-raised rapper whose major-label album dropped last week on Warner Bros., wrote "Lady Villain" nearly two years ago. It finds him exploring the woes and whoas of modern love from a young cynic's perspective, with his romantic interest cast as, well, the heartless villain: ," he raps.

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