Baraka Blue on the video shoot for Granada Rap:
"I have shot quite a few music videos but this is the one that sticks out in my mind because of how natural it all came together. It all began on the 5 hour bus ride from Istanbul to the capital of Turkey, Ankara. We were high off a really dope show with upwards of 10,000 people in the audience and television crews from all over the world.
As we drove away from Istanbul I kept replaying the time we had spent there in my head. The 2,000 year old buildings. The Haga Sofia, the biggest church in all of Christendom, to the Blue Mosque, one of the greatest mosques in the world, to the the sights and smells of the market and the cobblestone alleys of the old city. As everyone else faded to sleep I bumped some of Abdul Malik's beats and this track was born. I spit it for Anas and Ty when we arrived at the hotel and Ty wrote a 16 right on the spot. The freshness of it is that it really captures our time in Istanbul. Its like a verbal snapshot. We recorded the song in Konya, Rumi's hometown, and after our last show there we trekked back to Istanbul for our final day before we departed.
On that last day we decided to hit the streets and shoot a video. We went to the old neighborhood, (the "Naqshabandi hood") and started shooting. Immediately on every street we went to the kids came running when they heard us rapping to the beat. They all wanted to be in the video and listen to us rap. All through the video you see the kids running up and down the street and kicking it with us. Half of the time they were just laughing at us and we were laughing at them trying to understand what each other was saying. Aside from the kids we were able to capture a bit of the life of Istanbul from women walking home with groceries to shaykhs observing the skyline. It was just a dope vibe and we couldn't have made it that fresh if we planned it out. We got so much love from the people of Turkey that I want to give a shout-out to everybody there. Big up Turkey! I hope you all enjoy."
Yours Truly,
Baraka Blue
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