Spoken word artist turned rapper Messiah Ramkissoon presents his video "Come Back to Me" in a visual cascade of black and white comfort that wraps you in calming images and fluid lyricism that immediately captures your senses. The Black aesthetic at work is artful entertainment, and the visuals are compelling in their everyday quality. Unlike Kanye West's overly-hyped recent short film "Runaway" (which I kinda liked, I can't lie), this video, directed by Opiyo Okeyo, does not make the concept a project to understand. In its understated simplicity, you get it, because it ain't that deep. You listen to the story being weaved, a participant in a conversation, as Messiah sits between the legs of his lover, played by model/poet Melani Douglass, as she twists his lock. The familiarity warms you. The organic hip-hop soul quality of the music grooves you. A headnodder of the dopest kind. Messiah, who has shared the stage already with artists such as Lupe Fiasco, Janelle Monáe and Saul Williams, gives us an unexpected winner.
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