Wilder Zoby - "Contagious" NSFW video
If you've been coming to Okayplayer for a while now, you may already know Wilder Zoby--frequent El-P collaborator and lead singer of Chin Chin (with his little brother Little Shalimar). In fact, you may be familiar with this track "Contagious"--which 1st dropped on this website 3 years ago! Wilder, however has supplied us with a hell of a late pass, explaining:
"I've been playing with El-P live and in the studio since I'll Sleep When You're Dead and co-produced and played on Cancer 4 Cure, Killer Mike's R.A.P. Music, and Run The Jewels. We just finished a year and a half long tour that started with C4C & R.A.P. Music and carried into Run the Jewels."
For those that came (a year or two) late, El-P, who has a co-production credit on the track (Co Producto) and originally premiered a snippet on his Weareallgoingtoburninhellmeggmixx3 mixtape--had this to say about it:
"Wilder is on some serious smoked out space pimp shit with this one. In fact, the moog keytar-through-guitar-pedal solo at the end was done drunk and high as the dickens at 5am in one take."
Well after all that Zoby's solo EP Wildcat is finally seeing the light of, uh, motel flourescents and "Contagious" now has the extremely NSFW video it deserves, chock full of more gratuitous skin, black panties, cheetah print bras, thigh-high tube socks, grape nuzzling and provocative bubble gum popping than an American Apparel staff meeting. Maybe 'gratuitous' is unfair--lots of fools be throwing extra flesh in their videos (not to mention their lyrics) in a cynical attempt to get your attention and sell you something else. That's gratuitous. The softcore pr0n that's happening here is earned--and totally appropriate to the emotional core of music itself which sounds sort of like "Computer Love" on ecstacy. Right in the middle of this slutty slumber party is Wilder himself, in his Rhythm Nation hands-free mic and not much else, splaying what his mama gave him. Taken all together, the best way to rate the results might be 'just crazy enough to work.' Watch below and cop Wildcat in its entirety via bandcamp.
