One of my favorite songs of 2020 has a new music video. “Chicago Bae” featuring BJ The Chicago Kid was the lead single off Ric Wilson and Terrace Martin’s collab EP They Call Me Disco, and it arrived with a music video of its own back in April.
Today, the trio are sharing the official visual for the track produced by Ted Chung, Terrace Martin, and J-Trx. The new video was directed and animated by Win Homer and premiered by Afropunk this morning and it features the song’s trio in footage filmed in quarantine in each of their respective homes.
While I love how they incorporated the live footage of quarantine life and what it must be to crush on someone in this era, the animations are the best thing here. You can’t tell me that cartoon journey isn’t supa dupa fly!
Wilson shared this statement about the new video via the press release:
We started making the video to ‘Chicago Bae’ around the time everyone was running into Walmarts taking all of the toilet papers… We couldn’t physically be together but wanted to make something that could bring people together more. I’m honored to be featured on a song with two incredible black musicians that I consider living legends. I don’t really know anyone who’s singing better than BJ The Chicago Kid right now and I don’t know who’s embodying and pushing the boundaries of all genres of black music right now as much as Terrace.
