Lecrae has released the music video for “I’m Turnt,” a song from his recently released mixtape, Church Clothes 2.
The title borrows the language of parties and excess, but Lecrae is working with a different definition. Instead of building the song around intoxication or escape, he describes a kind of celebration that does not require losing control to prove everyone is having a good time.
The video opens with the statement, “We were made to pursue pleasure, but there is no pleasure under the sun that brings ultimate satisfaction.” From there, Lecrae takes the familiar images of a loud house party and removes the usual ingredients.
There is still a crowded room, plenty of movement and a beat designed to make standing perfectly still an impractical choice. What is missing is the suggestion that getting drunk, getting high or waking up with regrets is the admission price for enjoying yourself.
That contrast drives “I’m Turnt.” Lecrae is not arguing against pleasure. He is questioning why culture so often treats self-destruction as its most convincing evidence.
The song appeared on Church Clothes 2, the second installment in Lecrae’s mixtape series with DJ Don Cannon. Released in November, the project continued Lecrae’s effort to make music that could operate comfortably within contemporary hip-hop without translating every idea for a church audience first.
“I’m Turnt” may be one of the project’s most immediate tracks, but its concept is more deliberate than its hook initially suggests. Lecrae takes a phrase associated with abandoning restraint and turns it into a rejection of being controlled by substances, expectations or somebody else’s definition of a good night.
RiTE Media Group produced the video, with Steven C. Pitts directing and Kyle Dettman handling the edit.
Watch “I’m Turnt” below.