Video: Finale - The Senator

New ish' from Detroit MC Finale off his new album "A Pipe Dream And A promise" that highlights The Wire series character Clay Davis and also utilizes a sample from the fictional senator as well....

Okay, lemme first say if you didn't peep out HBO's last truly great series The Wire over the course of it's 5 seasons than well, you might not follow what's happenin' here too well....I'll try my best to break it down for ya'.

The show is basically a realistic and unapologetic look at Baltimore's streets from the view of several colorful street cops, politicians, drug addicts, stick up men, union workers, teachers, public school students and drug peddlers. These characters often find their worlds colliding and producer David Simon's well written and cagey direction really offers a glimpse into the complicated world that is west Baltimore.

Now even if you didn't watch the show I'm sure you've heard the names Omar, Snoop and Stringer floating around in association with it occasionally. One other name that grew to be one of my personal favorite characters was Senator Clay Davis; a money hungry, corrupt and well connected downtown politician who served as a middle man between street minded drug traffickers and the city's many equally venomous developers.

Davis' verbal calling card; "shiiiiiiieeeeeet", lends it's contemptuous tone to Waajeed's production skills as he integrates it into the beat while Finale details the mindset of Davis perfectly...

Neat video and great to see that The Wire hasn't been forgotten.

-BIG D O