Shad ft: Skratch Bastid - Work (Official Video)
After taking people by surprise last month by releasing ‘Out of Touch’, his first brand new song since 2018, prolific Toronto based rapper Shad is at it again, unveiling a punchy new track and video titled ‘Work’.
Speaking about the track Shad explains: “Like ‘Out of Touch’, ‘Work’ was another song written pre-pandemic that is (sadly) even more timely now. I knew I wanted to write a song specifically about two aspects of work: One, the way so many of our jobs are disconnected from a sense of meaning and purpose, and from the people and places they impact. And two, just the increasing precarity and scarcity of work. Also as with ‘Out of Touch’, I wanted the song to hold both the irony/humour and heaviness of our situation.”
Produced by and featuring Skratch Bastid, the new single was built on a blistering sample from art-rockers We Are The City, and mixes old and new influences, taking Shad’s flexible flows into exciting new territory.