Matt Monday’s ‘Devils’ Video Will Open Your Eyes To Racism & Hate

<p>On the heels of the unfortunate situation happening in his hometown&comma; Matt Monday knew this was the time to release his visual&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;unheardvoicesmag&period;com&sol;unheardunderground&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;18&sol;music-smook-deville-x-victoriousvic-satisfied&sol;">body of work<&sol;a> had already been produced and edited but Matt Monday and his team were waiting on a specific time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They had discussed releasing it earlier in the year but for some reason decided to wait&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As many of us have heard throughout the years &&num;8220&semi;Everything happens for a reason&&num;8221&semi; that very statement holds truth to this release&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>None of us knew that an evening in June an incident would sweep the nation off its feet and leave us speechless&period; It would leave us questioning &&num;8220&semi;What is going on in the world&quest;&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;Where do we go from here&quest;&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That moment has brought us to today&period; As this is a controversial visual&comma; its also very artistic and will open up your eyes in a different way to the hate that we are exposed to everyday and some of the hate that some of us &lpar;perhaps not even realizing&rpar; participate in daily&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The official single cover has caused quite the stir as its an image of an African American male draped in a kente cloth klansmen hood&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As the image is very powerful&comma; thought provoking and some may argue beautifully twisted it without a doubt stops you for a second to really think about what is happening in our world today&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When asked about the creation of &&num;8216&semi;Devils&&num;8217&semi; Matt Monday states &&num;8220&semi;Devils is a look into a world where the understood racial roles have been completely reversed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I wanted to create something that removed the racial aspect of color and focused more on the actually act of hatred&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4>Check out Devils by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;PyLQnzCSX6Y" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Matt Monday<&sol;a> below&colon;<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><iframe src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;PyLQnzCSX6Y" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" frameborder&equals;"0" allowfullscreen&equals;"allowfullscreen"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;