“Road To Zion” by Nas & Damien Marley

Released in 2005, "Road to Zion" was the second American single from Damian Marley's Welcome to Jamrock (Europe got "The Master Has Come Back" instead), and it teams Marley with Nas on a track that borrows from Ella Fitzgerald's "Russian Lullaby". The pairing clicked hard enough to outlast the single: it sent the two off to make an EP together, and that EP kept growing until it became a full album, Distant Relatives, in 2010.

The video plays like a prison-break parable. Shot in Kew Gardens, it has Nas locked up with George Clinton and Game while Marley hands out postcards bearing the Lion of Judah; Nas studies one, breaks out and finds Marley again in a housing-project hallway, with Chali 2na of Jurassic 5 turning up out on the street.

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