{"id":2339368,"date":"2026-03-20T23:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2339368"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:33:37","slug":"inayah-shares-the-choose-video-starring-patrick-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/inayah-shares-the-choose-video-starring-patrick-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"Inayah Shares The &#8216;Choose&#8217; Video Starring Patrick Cage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-page=\"1\">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/uproxx.com\/music\/thebasement-series-recap-inayah-josh-levi-kentheman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inaya<\/a>h is an awesome internet success story. While she started her music career writing songs for a jingle company, a cover of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/uproxx.com\/music\/ella-mai-jayson-tatum-baby-revealed-2024-paris-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Mai\u2019s<\/a> \u201cBoo\u2019d Up\u201d went viral on Instagram, skyrocketing her follower count up from 4,000 to 1.3 million. That caught the attention of Empire Records, with whom Inayah secured a distribution deal. In 2019, she had a hit with \u201cBest Thing,\u201d which has been certified platinum and has over 100 million streams on Spotify alone.<\/p>\n<p>Her career has continued to progress from there and that brings us to present day, where Inayah is fresh off the release of her latest single, \u201cChoose.\u201d The song dropped last month, but this week brought the track\u2019s official video.<\/p>\n<p>The clip is directed by City James (known for his work on Kehlani\u2019s \u201cFolded\u201d) and it stars actor Patrick Cage (<em>Mayor Of Kingstown<\/em>, <em>One Of Them Days<\/em>, <em>Westworld<\/em>). The cinematic visual sees the two in both love and conflict. Acting like this is well within Inayah\u2019s realm: She scored her first acting role in 2022 on <em>The Ms. Pat Show<\/em>, and in 2025, she starred in Tyler Perry\u2019s <em>Finding Joy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWHcgtOgD_q\/\" target=\"_blank\">On Instagram<\/a>, Inayah wrote of the video:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is my FAVORITE music video to date! Y\u2019all know me, I\u2019ma storyteller\u2026 so to see my vision come to life after writing it out was a DREAM come true! @patrickcage is an amazing actor &amp; my director @city.james is a visionaryyyy. thank you both! I hope y\u2019all enjoy this visual just as much as I enjoyed making it!! \u2018Choose\u2019 music video out neeeow!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the song, Inayah sings about being forced to pick between love and music: \u201cBut if I\u2019m the one for you, then how you gon\u2019 make me pick between the two? \/ Don\u2019t ever make me choose, \u2019cause what if I don\u2019t choose you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the \u201cChoose\u201d video above.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uproxx.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inayah is an awesome internet success story. While she started her music career writing songs for a jingle company, a cover of Ella Mai\u2019s \u201cBoo\u2019d Up\u201d went viral on Instagram, skyrocketing her follower count up from 4,000 to 1.3 million. That caught the attention of Empire Records, with whom Inayah secured a distribution deal. 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