DETAILS, FICTION AND EPIC THE MUSICAL

can be a deeply cinematic affair, its boom-bap blasted to shit by shifty cyberpunk unease and its narrator a snarling sensible-ass who keeps slipping face-to start with into issues. Brian Beletic’s online video for “Deep Area 9mm” follows El-P via a grainy post-nine/eleven NYC through which violence lurks around each corner, pretty literally: