Pusha T is a man possessed in the dark and eerie short film for “M.F.T.R.” featuring The-Dream, off the Clipse rapper’s second studio effort King Push: Darkest Before Dawn — The Prelude.
“Maybe this dream is trying to tell you something,” a priest tells Push in a confessional just before the Virginia rep climbs up walls, dangles from the ceiling and tries to exorcise his demons in the Kid Art production.
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Push recently expanded on the meaning of “M.F.T.R.” — an acronym for “More Famous Than Rich” — in an interview with Billboard.
“When you look at society, it’s like a big masquerade even through social media,” he said. “I’m from a time, an era and a lifestyle where you can’t really speak on it without really having it. To be more famous than rich seems to be a thing that’s going on right now and I’m not into that.”
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The dance with the devil in the nightmare-ish “M.F.T.R.” clip borrows from Pusha T’s Darkest Before Dawn short film, which was released alongside his album last week.