Review: Music Video For Verbal Jint And Bumkey's "Walking In The Rain" Features Stunning Slow Motion Cinematography [VIDEO]

There are few music video devices as played out as rain.

Video directors from the 1980s on seemed to relish soaking artists with rain machines in videos like Milli Vanilli's "Blame It On The Rain" or Mariah Carey's 2002 hit "Through The Rain."

The effect became synonymous with cheesy, over-the-top music videos like the ones just mentioned.

Then the video for Verbal Jint's "Walking In The Rain" featuring Bumkey came along.

With the use of inventive camera angles and jaw-dropping slow motion effects, "Walking In The Rain," released on Monday, reinvents the use of rain in a music video, and raises it to a high art.

And although there are moments of raindrops dripping a car that threaten to resemble a Lexus commercial, the attention to texture and the innovative use of lighting raises the video beyond anything you've seen before.

Purely as a song, "Walking In The Rain" is rock solid. But the video is so arresting, you almost have to look away from the screen in order to really hear it.

Bumkey and Verbal Jint have a kind of Justin Timberlake and JAY-Z "Suit and Tie"-style rapport. The beat is quite different, but the way they compliment each other is similar.

As the man out front, Verbal Jint lays down some rhymes that manage to be both laidback and aggressive at the same time.

Although the rapper and Bumkey do have their JAY and Justin thing, Verbal Jint mainly seems to be channeling more iconic old school American rappers like Ice-T and Big Daddy Kane than anyone current pop charts.

There is some classy production on "Walking In The Rain."

The song even offers some enjoyable rhythmic breaks near the end that would be uncommon to hear in any American song with that much rapping.

Yet, again, you probably wouldn't even notice these rather brilliant breaks, if you were watching the video.

It's almost assuredly coincidental, but the use of a love story told mostly in the front seat of a car, by actors is particularly poignant in light of G.O.D. singer Son Ho Young's girlfriend's tragic suicide in Seoul last month.

Son's girlfriend killed herself in his car. Three days later Son attempted suicide in the same way, but was pulled from his vehicle moments before it burst into flames.

Watch the music video for Verbal Jint "Walking In The Rain" featuring Bumkey RIGHT HERE