"Pagans" Video — stereogum.com

Nov 17th '14 by Tom Breihan @ 4:08pmComment The sometimes-great London rapper Dizzee Rascal celebrated his Halloween by gruesomely chopping up young women in his “Couple Of Stacks” video, so that was pretty gross. But his new video for the bouncy single “Pagans” more than makes up for it. In the new Emile Sornin-directed clip, Dizzee plays a ninja master with lightning powers, and if that’s not enough to get you to click play, I don’t know what is. He spends the first half of the video teaching his troops in the mountains and doing the (presumably CGI-assisted) Van Damme splits. And he spends the second half on an urban revenge quest that ends with him finding the most overblown possible way to kill someone. It’s awesome. Watch it below.

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