In the footage, the two musicians take a chance to pay a tribute to music entrepreneur Jamal Edwards, who was supposed to shoot and direct the music video.
- Jul 22, 2022
AceShowbiz - Russ has teamed up with Ed Sheeran for his new music "Are You Entertained". The track was released on Friday, July 22 along with its visuals, which displays the two musicians enjoying a guys' night out together.
The footage opens with Ed picking up Russ who just arrives with a private jet. The pair later speed up in a luxurious red car, heading to a fancy restaurant to have dinner with their pals.
After enjoying their meals, the "Photograph" hitmaker and the "Losin Control" spitter go to a strip club. The clip ends with a tribute to music entrepreneur Jamal Edwards, who was supposed to shoot and direct the video.
"It's feeling like I might just be on a roll/ I'm never sellin' my soul/ My records are platinum and gold/ It just keeps happenin', woah," the emcee boasts. He and his collaborator then sing together in the chorus, "Every time, every night is a loose one/ My seat is reclined, the jet is G5, I blew up/ You say that I dropped off, well then tell me what you've done/ I'm still in my winnin' phase, 'Rari switchin' lanes/ Are you entertained? I'm gone."
Speaking about the collaboration, Russ said on Instagram, "I'm so grateful for this moment. I walked up to Ed at a restaurant (Carbone) and assumed he didn't know who I was. Just wanted to introduce myself and say what's up. Next thing I know I'm eating pasta and drinking wine at his table talkin bout everything." He added, "Fast forward and we had this song and we wanted to shoot a video to it so he introduced me to Jamal Edwards, a brilliant visionary and special soul who wrote the treatment for the video. We went back and forth on ideas and we were all super excited."
"The day before we were supposed to fly out to London we got the tragic news that Jamal had passed away. I had never met Jamal other than those emails but I can tell he was a special person,"the rhymer continued. "The way Ed, Jamal's mother Brenda, his sister Tanisha, the director Jake Nava, the producer Ali and everyone else who worked on this rallied together and still wanted to make Jamal's vision come to life, showed the impact he had."
"All I wanted to do was make sure I did my part in facilitating making his exact treatment come to life. I'm just beyond grateful that all of y'all let me be apart of something so special. Special thank you to everyone who made this happen and thank you to Brenda Edwards for being such a warrior of love and light. RIP Jamal Edwards," he concluded.
