Kendrick Lamar has released the previously theater-exclusive short film that accompanies ‘We Cry Together’, his collaborative track with actress Taylour Paige from ‘Mr.

The film was directed by Lamar himself alongside Jake Schreier and Dave Free, with Adam Newport-Berra serving as its cinematographer. It sees Lamar and Paige (best known for her starring role in Zola) take the roles of a couple deeply immersed in an inflammatory argument, trading callous insults and personal attacks as they strut around their house, eventually losing track of their fight and having make-up sex on a couch.

The song itself notably eschews Lamar’s usual work by being framed solely around spoken-word slam poetry — as Billboard pointed out, those vocals were tracked live-in-camera for the film, which was shot in a single, continuous take on a soundstage.

Originally filmed in March of 2020, We Cry Together screened theatrically in June, with seven showings – one each day between Friday, June 3 and Thursday, June 9 – held at the Laemmle Royal Theater in West LA.