7 segments — The Blue Pen & New-York
A hip-hop instrumental track with a prominent piano loop and a steady beat is playing in the background.
A male voice raps: "...bite the apple, Eve / Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in-style / And in the winter gets cold, en vogue, with your skin out" The camera is positioned vertically, showing a cluttered desk or table against a textured wall with red, graffiti-like markings. A red and white flag hangs at the top of the frame. On the desk, there is a white, bowl-shaped object, a black case, pens in a holder, various electronics, and tangled white wires. The camera begins a very slow, continuous tilt downwards.
The hip-hop beat and piano loop continue.
The male voice continues rapping: "City of sin, it's a pity on a whim / Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them" The camera continues its slow, steady tilt downwards. The perspective on the cluttered desk changes slightly, and the red and white flag at the top begins to move out of the frame.
The hip-hop beat and piano loop continue.
The male voice continues rapping: "Mommy took a bus trip, now she got her bust out / Everybody ride her, just like a bus route" The slow downward camera tilt continues. The objects on the desk, including the white bowl and wires, shift higher up in the frame's composition.
The hip-hop beat and piano loop continue.
The male voice continues rapping: "Hail Mary to the city, you're a virgin / And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church end" The camera continues panning downwards. The focus moves away from the top of the wall and more towards the lower section of the desk and the space below it.
The hip-hop beat and piano loop continue.
The male voice continues rapping: "Came here for school, graduated to the high life / Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight" As the camera tilts further down, a new object comes into view at the bottom right of the frame: a flag with horizontal red, white, and blue stripes. The desk clutter is now situated in the upper half of the video.
The hip-hop beat and piano loop continue.
The male voice continues rapping: "MDMA got you feelin' like a champion / The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien" The downward pan continues. The flag at the bottom right becomes more prominent, revealing more of its stripes. The wall with the red markings is still visible on the left side.
The hip-hop beat continues, transitioning into the chorus of the song.
The male voice says, "Yeah," followed by a female voice singing the beginning of the chorus: "In New York" The camera completes its slow downward tilt. The flag with red, white, and blue stripes is clearly visible at the bottom right. The desk and its contents are now at the very top edge of the frame before the video ends.