Since the premiere of "Lately" earlier this year, Milwaukee-based MC Webster X has opened up for Lupe Fiasco, and started working on new music for his first studio album, which drops later this year—it's still nameless, he says. After letting "Lately" cook for a few months, he drops the stunning video directed by Cody Laplant and Damien Klaven for the Mic Kellogg produced track.
"It more embodies all the new gained attention I got from doomsday and the interesting change of pace I experienced, reason why it's called 'Lately,'" he told Complex earlier this year. "It sheds light on some of the healthy pressures I felt realizing that it's not 'all on me' it's 'all on team' and the people around me who support."
The short film is an abstract representation of "light," he says. "This means light, light in the sense of realizing a light was always there, digging yourself out of a hole you were in and realizing the new world has amazing friends that come with it, don't ever settle." Look for more new music from Webster coming soon, and read more about him in this Pigeons & Planes interview.
Webster explained the video on his Twitter, too:
Anyways, lately right? Lately started as a song, a free release rather, that turned into a "wait, is this a single off of his album?" All lately was, was another outlet for my ideals behind depression, something so foreign to my understanding until it struck me for most of early 2014.
