Ozzy Osbourne adds a lively touch to a hilarious episode from his time on Black Sabbath in the “It’s a Raid” video. The song is the final number of Osbourne’s most recent solo album, Ordinary guy.
A cartoon video for the track, which also features Post Malone, shows the Prince of Darkness and the rapper returning to the Bel-Air mansion, where Sabbath recorded his 1972 classic to be reissued soon. Vol. 4. In the 1970s, Osbourne accidentally pushed a button that he thought would activate the air conditioner. It turned out that it was a silent alarm that called the police, causing the Sabs to panic and get rid of all their drugs – a fact that they regretted after telling the police that everything was fine. In the video for “It’s a Raid”, Osbourne and Post Malone end up leading the police through the streets of Los Angeles.
“Andrew [Watt, producer] I thought it was a funny story and said: ‘We have to write a song about it’ ”, says Osbourne Rolling Stone. “We were just kidding, like, ‘It’s a raaaaaaid!'”
Osbourne spoke about the new clip in a statement. “A few years ago, I didn’t even know who Post Malone was,” said Osbourne. “Since then, we’ve worked together on two studio tracks and played together twice. Understandably, Covid-19 made it difficult to get together to record a video for ‘It’s a Raid’, so we opted for this wildly imagined animation video for the final single Ordinary guy album.”
The singer is currently working on a new album with Watt. “There are some songs there that are about eight or nine minutes long that are really crazy trips,” said the producer recently Guitar World. He also suggested some of the special guests that could be on the album: “I started doing a lot of basic tracks with [Red Hot Chili Peppers’] Chad [Smith] and [Metallica’s] Robert Trujillo, who played in the Ozzy band. AND [Foo Fighters’] Taylor Hawkins also appeared and played a lot on the record, which adds a different touch – kind of reminiscent of Ozzy’s eighties era, in a great way. And I think it’s so cool for a rock fan to be able to hear half an album with Chad Smith on drums, and then you turn around and listen to Taylor Hawkins. “