Rakiyah stars in creative music video for new single “So God Help Me”
Rakiyah - So God Help Me [Official Music Video]
American R&B singer-songwriter and producer Rakiyah unleashes a music video for new single “So God Help Me”. The music video features ethereal anime style imagery in a glorious blue hue.
American R&B singer-songwriter and producer Rakiyah unleashes a stunning music video for her compelling new single "So God Help Me" a visual as bold and otherworldly as the music it accompanies. The video immerses the viewer in a rich and ethereal anime-style world, rendered in a glorious, all-encompassing blue hue that gives the entire piece the quality of a dream half-remembered luminous, atmospheric, and impossible to look away from.
The choice of anime-inspired imagery feels deeply intentional, tapping into a visual language that has long carried the weight of the epic and the emotional with equal grace. In Rakiyah's hands, it becomes something personal and expansive all at once a world that mirrors the spiritual and emotional intensity of the song itself, where the boundaries between the earthly and the divine feel genuinely blurred.
"So God Help Me" is a track that carries within it a sense of reckoning a plea, a declaration, and a moment of profound vulnerability all wrapped into one. The music video gives that feeling a visual home that feels worthy of it, the animated imagery elevating the song into something that transcends the conventional boundaries of the music video format and lands somewhere closer to visual art.
With this release, Rakiyah announces herself as an artist with not only a distinctive and powerful voice, but a creative vision that extends far beyond the music someone who understands that the most impactful releases are those where every element, sonic and visual, is working together toward the same emotional truth. "So God Help Me" is proof of that, and one of the most visually arresting music videos to arrive in recent memory.
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Produced by Michael De’Jour Thomas, Rakiyah Wright
Recording Engineering & Vocal Producing by Koa Ho
Mixed & Mastered by Nick “Squids” Squillante
Cinematography by OHMYGOODNESS
Editing by Dre Vegas
Coloring by Rakiyah
Produced & Creatively directed by Rakiyah
Assistant creative directing by Cashmere Shelby
Directed by Erica Andrew pka Love Moor
Choreography by Rakiyah
Styled by Cadena y Rosas
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So God help me
So God help me
Help me
So God help me
Ooo ooo
Ooo ooo
Ooo ooo
Ooo ooo
Save me from myself
Control me
Lost unholy
So done searching
Lord is it worth it
It’s time
Save me
Oh God
Save me
Oh God
Save me
Save me from me
Save me
Save me from myself
Myself
Myself
Myself
Myself
Myself
Myself
So God help me
Ooo ooo
Ooo ooo
Ooo ooo
Ooo ooo
Save me from
Myself
