New Clipse video today. For "Freedom," which opens their new album, Til the Casket Drops. Like the much of the Virginian duo's music, the song is great. You imagine them-brothers, Gene "Malice" and Terrence "Pusha T" Thornton-rhyming over their parents' Hendrix records when they were kids. (The original sample is actually from David Potter's 1971 "Open Letter," but producers Sean C and LV put some extra-sizzly guitar over top.) But I'll never understand wearing sunglasses inside.

Pusha T and Cam'ron dress up as John Fogerty and Eddie Vedder in the grimy, but colorful, Rik Cordero-directed video to the Clipse's new "Back By Popular Demand," a.k.a. "Popeyes." As previously evidenced by another recent song, "Doorman," the Clipse are onto something good with a mariachi horns sound-and their upcoming album, Til The Casket Drops, is shaping up nicely. Unfortunately, the above video is only for the heavily bleeped clean version of "Popular Demand." So what you should do is open up another window on your computer machine, and sync up this one to listen to while you watch. You don't want to miss any of the rhymes. 'Cause they're so excellent.

Earlier this year, stand-out coke-rappers the Clipse had their bona fides verified when manager Anthony Gonzales pleaded guilty to running a multimillion dollar drug ring. With the video to the new single "Doorman," from the forthcoming album Til The Casket Drops, the Virginia duo celebrate their incarcerated "comrades" very explicitly. The game is to be sold, not told. At least, not until after everyone who could go to jail is already in jail, at which point it should be told so it can be sold some more. Not knocking it. That's just good business, I suppose. Good song, too.