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Screems from da Old Plantation

2000 Music video
  • Hip Hop
  • Pop

From the Album Savage Thoughts (2000)

"Samoa mo Samoa!" — King Kapisi blends his Samoan roots with hip hop culture in this video, which was shot over three days on Samoa's ring roads — two days really, because as director Joe Lonie recalls, the first day "was a write-off" (see the quotes tab). The hip hop music video standby of the drive-by gets revised Pasifika-style. The fire poi, papase'ea sliding rocks, lavalava, coconuts, and colourful Apia buses make this clip staunchly fa'a Samoa. As DJ Sir-Vere wrote of this video, "rarely have we seen an artist looking like they are having so much fun".