2 Chainz Is A Time-Traveling, Ribbon-Cutting Spirit In 'Money In The Way' Video

There's been a breakthrough in time travel technology that would make Back To The Future's Doc Brown turn beet purple with anger and envy. A compact silver vehicle burning rubber and disappearing in a flurry of sparks is no longer needed to traverse the back alleyways of time; you could achieve better results in an elevator. 2 Chainz's new video for cash In The Way" proves as such.


As the video begins, 2 Chainz waltzes through an older building that, from the looks of it, has seen better days. We visualize a white couple moving in with smiles on their faces, prepared to build memories in this vast, empty building. If they get accustomed to their new house, 2 Chainz acts as our tour guide as he takes viewers on a trip by means of the building's history. Title cards define the contradictions in time. In the 1960s, a bank robber came sprinting via halls with his spoils, fleeing a pursuing policeman as thick bunches of loose cash splashed onto the ground around him. In the 1970s, a gentleman watches from the shadows of an elevator as a woman, whom he is presumably acting as her pimp, seduces a man.


Things alternate between dark and light, hopeful and desperate. In the 1980s, breakdancing, smiling guys twirl on their limbs in a flurry of red and black sweatsuits. The 1990s brings about the rise of gangster rap, and with it, robberies. It's here that we visualize the video's darkest point; a fast elevator stick-up goes horribly wrong and someone gets killed. The 2000s bring about the rise of pawn shops and we visualize a gentleman counting the funds for his haul. There's a glimmer of hope there, that everything is going to be just fine. This is honed in for the 2010s segment where we visualize graduating children in caps and gowns.


Through this all, 2 Chainz is our window through it as he raps. He's indoor of a drab elevator that reveals itself to be much more than what it seems to be on the outdoors. It zips and zaps as gold sparks shoot out of plus it races to the sky. Each of its helps in avoiding brings us to another decade in the video. It's a much-needed improvement over the imprecise nature of the DeLorean. 2 Chainz isn't just one of the big rappers in the game, he's also a more than capable scientist, apparently.


cash In The Way" appears on his recently released album Rap Or Go To The League. The LP also features his triumphant group effort with Ariana Grande, "Rule The World."


Watch this unique, warping visual up above.