CHICAGO — A new music video by local artist Jamilia Woods celebrates Chicago with shots taken in various city neighborhoods and also enlists Chance the Rapper.
The new video, entitled LSD, is below:
Woods, raised in Beverly and educated at St. Ignatius College Prep, 1076 W. Roosevelt Rd., and Brown University, is the associate artistic director of Young Chicago Authors, according to her bio.
A 2015 profile in the Reader said her father is a pediatrician and her mother is "an alternative medicine doctor" who also plays guitar. As a teen, she was involved in the After School Matters city effort for teens started by former Mayor Richard M. Daley's wife, Maggie.
The making of the video included a contest for Chicago high school students. Winners, including Ashley Huicochea of Prosser Career Academy, 2148 N. Long Ave., were allowed to shadow the film's directors Vincent Martell and Sam Bailey of VAM Studio.
The idea was to present Chicago "in its regalness," Bailey says in a film about the making of the music video.
Huicochea's idea was to show "there's a lot more to the city than what the general masses say about us," she said.
Woods said the idea was to "showcase not only the Downtown or only the beach but the places where people actually live."
As for bringing students in, Chance says, "I was so excited when I heard the idea. It made for a great video."
