Clipse Pays Tribute to Their Family Tree With Heartfelt ‘Birds Don’t Sing’ Video

The Clipse near viewers with tears successful their eyes with Let God Sort Em Out‘s emotional opening track, “The Birds Don’t Sing,” and the Thornton brothers returned connected Tuesday (Sept. 30) to merchandise the moving visual.

Directed by Brendan O’Connor, the clip begins with Pusha helping his lad laic flowers connected the casket of 1 of his parents. Clipse takes it backmost to the start, arsenic the Virginia-bred duo heads to their puerility location for a blast from the past.

Pusha T takes the mic and lets the memories of his parent flood successful portion rhyming from his surviving room, arsenic household photos of her from implicit the years look connected the screen. “While I’m reminiscing, it each hits different, Mom, listen,” helium raps.

The country pivots to Malice sitting successful the eating room, who reflects connected his enslaved with their precocious father, Gene Thornton Sr., and the tutelage helium picked up from his dada on the way.

Pictures of their begetter successful the location are displayed, on with notable achievements, specified arsenic his assignment arsenic an authoritative deacon. “I emotion my 2 sons was the codification to your phone, present you home,” helium rhymes.

Pharrell, John Legend and the Voices of Fire choir radical springiness a gospel feeling to “The Birds Don’t Sing,” portion Virginia autochthonal and NFL backmost Tyrod Taylor makes a cameo alongside his father, sitting successful the bleachers wherever helium erstwhile dominated the gridiron arsenic a precocious schooler. The 2 stock a laughter and enactment connected his No. 2 New York Jets jersey, the squad for whom Taylor presently plays.

Clipse performed “The Birds Don’t Sing” on The Tonight Show and brought their bars to the Vatican successful September, wherever the duo became the archetypal rappers to ever execute astatine the office of the Roman Catholic Church.

Let God Sort Em Out arrived successful July and debuted astatine No. 4 connected the Billboard 200 with 118,000 full album-equivalent units earned.

Watch the video below.