Ascension

Ascension is the second track and the third single on Gorillaz' 2017 album "Humanz". It was released on March 23, 2017. The song raps about inequality and racism.

Ascension is the first Gorillaz rap song to have vulgar words since "911". Other songs with these vulgar words include “DoYaThing”.

Music Video


The song starts immediately with Vince rapping the first verse, scrolling through a cloudy neighborhood. The beat comes up with a siren in the distance, foreshadowing that something might happen. This is very similar to the siren heard throughout “El Mañana”. As the camera is scrolling through the neighborhood that is somewhat abandoned, the siren stops. Immediately, a meteor shower rains down on the neighborhood seemingly unaffecting anything below.

The meteor shower flashes back to the way it was after the first verse is sung, the camera is scrolling through the neighbor hood faster than normal when the second verse plays. As it is scrolling, another meteor shower comes which goes away faster than the first shower. 2-D then sings, as it's advancing through the neighbor hood and then the third meteor shower comes and ends briefly. As the final verse plays, the spirit house from "Saturnz Barz" is shown and the camera stops. The final meteor shower comes over the house, still not affecting the house at all then the music video ends.

Trivia

 * Ascension means “to rise to an important position / a higher level.”
 * Ascension can be heard at the beginning of the "Saturnz Barz" music video.
 * In the video they censored Obamas name, assumingely for legal reasons.