New Orleans’ Pell Witnesses One Family’s Darkest Secrets in ‘Café du Monde’ (Video)

Pell’s name has steadily been on the rise of late after his album Floating While Dreaming amassed more than 3 million streams on Spotify last year. Since then, he has performed at SXSW, giving the rapper and singer some very justifiable buzz. Now, the New Orleans native is gearing up to release LIMBO, which he will be performing in its entirety at three upcoming shows in New York, Los Angeles, and the Big Easy. In anticipation of its release, he dropped a concept-heavy video for “Café du Monde,” the album’s lead single.

Set in a sleazy motel, the mini-movie casts Pell (born Jared Pellerin) as an incidental witness to two different yet entirely interconnected relationships. Directed by Tyler Yee, a talented visionary who has worked with G-Eazy, Juvenile, Migos, T.I. and others, cinematically the video follows the lives of a woman and her son, both of whom end up partaking in illicit affairs in adjacent rooms in the dark and dingy motel. Adultery, kidnapping, and attempted rape are all supporting actors who place Pell in the middle of their playground. The song’s title is taken from a world-famous eatery in New Orleans (Café du Monde translates into Cafe of the World), but its metaphorical application in these visuals seem to allude to the fact that every family has its proverbial skeletons, regardless of geography. Check out the video below to see how it ends, and pre-order LIMBO before its November 6 release.

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