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The New @peace and Young Gifted and Broke Crew Video Nearly Sent Them to Their Graves

Check the video that features "Game of Thrones" star Keisha Castle-Hughes as a funeral home cleaner.

The music business can be stressful game. Judging by their latest video “Matter” it looks like it’s aged @peace and the Young, Gifted and Broke Collective by about 50 years. Directed by Motion Sickness Studios and featuring Game of Thrones star Keisha Castle-Hughes as a funeral home cleaner, the video deals with death and many hours in make up. Kind of like if Eddie Murphy’s Nutty Professor character starred in Cocoon if it was set in New Zealand.

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"Matter" appears on the Kiwi hip-hop collective’s @peace and the Plutonian Noise Symphony album and deals with evolution, destruction, and atomic theory in layman's terms

We had a chat to lyricist Tom Scott about the making of the video.

Noisey: What lead you to the aesthetic of old age and how did you make it work visually?
Tom Scott: It was inspired by the little sandwiches they have at funerals. It was my great uncle's funeral. He'd died totally absent and I doubt he could've told you his own name. The funeral just reinstated to me the meaninglessness of this shit ….
…. here we were commemorating this man's existence with sausage rolls. It put everything in perspective. We went to the dudes at Motion Sickness with the idea and they executed it somehow.

There are some beautifully detailed shots of relatively commonplace objects. It's kind of sadly funny.
We always wanted the video to have some subtle humour to lighten things up. The album is depressing enough as it is. So hopefully that helps. The mundane objects were there to emphasise the meaningless of life.

How did you get Keisha Castle-Hughes on board?
She'd been working on some failed fantasy show called Game Of Thrones in Barcelona and I knew that a gig like that wouldn't be stimulating her. We got in contact through a mutual friend and I knew I had a roll for her that she wouldn't be able to resist. A cleaning lady at the Avondale Funeral home. I mean, this could be the roll of a life time. So she came through and did her thing. And yeah, I think she was good. A little rusty though. The last video she'd done was for some dude Prince.

Catch @peace and the Plutonian Noise Symphony in October:
Oct 16, Dunedin at Chick’s Hotel
Octr 17, Queenstown at Sky Bar
Oct 18, Christchurch at Cassel and Sons Brewery
Oct 23, Hastings at Level One
Oct 24, Wellington at Meow
Oct 25 Auckland at Galatos